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The act of one who rules; ruled lines.

In a ruling manner; so as to rule.

uption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust.

Showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow. Am I not protector, saucy priest Shak.

Dictate; command; decree. [Obs.] [Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw. Spenser.

Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals. Specifically:

Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific arrangement of fossils.

In a scientific manner; according to the rules or principles of science. It is easier to believe than to be scientifically instructed. Locke.

A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale…

Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest. He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious orders and the secular clergy. Prescett.

ef who embraced Mohammedanism, and began the subjection of Western Asia to that faith and rule; of or pertaining to the dynasty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century. J. H. Newman.

To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it. [R.] Fairfax.

Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal. They are as a rule darker than the northern Jews, and have more delicate features.

Conveying putrid poison; as, the virulence of septiferous matter.

state; coolness; composure. I can not see how any men should ever transgress those moral rules with confidence and serenity. Locke.

To inculcate rigid rules. [R.] Chesterfield.

Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved. Even fortune rules no more, O servile land! Pope.

To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned.

e, a pole, often iron-pointed, used for pushing boats along in shallow water. -- Setting rule. (Print.) A composing rule.

Rigidly methodical, or adherent to rule or principle; exactly conformed to a standard; not allowing or employing unneccessary ornament, amplification, etc.; strict; -- said of style, argument, etc. "Restrained by reason and severe principles." Jer. Taylor. The Latin, a most severe and compendious language. Dryden.…