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uired shape. (b) A device for giving hair a wavy apperance. (c) A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.

A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. [Obs.]

Dandruff or scurf on the head.

See Dandruff. Swift.

s, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.

To throw into disorder; to ruffle; to destroy the composure or equanimity; to agitate. Opposition . . . discomposeth the mind's serenity. Glanvill.

To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash. How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir W. Scott.

To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant. "Distempered spirits." Coleridge.

To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.] (d) To starch and iron. "A rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch." Hawthorne. -- To do way, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To do with, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; -- usually preceded by what. "Men are many times brought t…

t with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings. Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. W. Irving.

The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides.

Equable; not easily ruffed or disturbed; calm; uniformly self- possessed; as, an even temper.

Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. B. Jonson.

material, used to extend the petticoat. We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . . With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things. Shak.

r channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.

Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.

or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. Knight. -- Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc.

ection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles. My heart had still some foolish fondness for thee. Addison.

A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.

[Fraise a kind of defense; also Friz.) A kind of small ruffle. Halliwell.