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Same as Urrhodin.

A substance isomeric with, and resembling, indigo blue, and accompanying it as a side product, in its artificial production.

Contrary to the rubric; not rubrical.

A genus of bitter aromatic plants, sometimes used in medicine; hoarhound.

A griping of the intestines; colic. [Slang] Whose dog lies sick of the mulligrubs Beau. & Fl.

ned from the South American euphorbiaceous tree Hevea brasiliensis, hence called the Pará rubber tree, from the Brazilian river and seaport named Pará; also, the similar product of other species of Hevea. It is usually exported in flat round cakes, and is a chief variety of commercial India rubber.

To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.

Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.

A baseboard; a mopboard.

Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.

A species of calciferous sandstone. [Prov. Eng.]

A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

A collection of shrubs.

Quality of being shrubby.

Full of shrubs.

having no shrubs. Byron.

A truffle. [Obs.]

A short, squat woman. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

An East India herring (Clupea toli) which is extensively caught for the sake of its roe and for its flesh.