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A blustering, turbulent fellow. If two roisterers met, they cocked their hats in each other faces. Macaulay.

A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. Wycherley.

A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy. In the rough, in an unwrought or rude condition; unpolished; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough. Contemplating the people in the rough. Mrs. Browning.

A rough, coarse fellow; collectively, the lowest class of the people; the rabble; the riffraff. [Colloq. U.S.]

To whisper. [obs.] Gower. Another rouned to his fellow low. Chaucer.

One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.

Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. "His rubicund face." Longfellow.

An uncivil, turbulent fellow. [Obs.] Shak.

A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat. Wilt thou on thy deathbed play the ruffian Shak.

anklin. By the fireside there are old men seated, Seeling ruined cities in the ashes. Longfellow.

Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. [Slang] Dickens.

rse poetry expressed in runes. Runes were upon his tongue, As on the warrior's sword. Longfellow. Rune stone, a stone bearing a runic inscription.

, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect. Here is a rural fellow; . . . He brings you figs. Shak.

Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked. [Colloq.] "Sad tipsy fellows, both of them." I. Taylor.

s tale of olden time. And then the blue-eyed Norseman told A saga of the days of old. Longfellow.

rst rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank. "Be it sagamore, sachem, or powwow." Longfellow.

Same as Sendal. Sails of silk and ropes of sandal. Longfellow.

Wearing sandals. The measured footfalls of his sandaled feet. Longfellow.

A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.

A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop. [Low]