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Of or pertaining to plants of a natural order (Rutacæ) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.

pertaining to, or obtained from, rue (Ruta); as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid.

glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue (Ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.

art from others; single; distinct. [Obs.] Bacon. And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly. Chaucer.

A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.

ute; stubborn; unrelenting; unfeeling; stern. This sturdy marquis gan his hearte dress To rue upon her wifely steadfastness. Chaucer. This must be done, and I would fain see Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay. Hudibras. A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took…

A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.

y, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition. Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes. Milton.

evy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on. Ye tithe mint and rue. Luke xi. 42.

An undertaker, or provider for funerals. [Obs.] The upholder, rueful harbinger of death. Gay.