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Any tooth that juts out. When he laughed, two white buckteeth protruded. Thackeray.

eems to have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm. Wirt.

or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs. Amongst rude burs and thistles. Milton. Bur and brake and brier. Tennyson.

A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack. Shak.

To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd. And leave the world for me to bustle in. Shak.

To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. [Prov. or Slang, Eng.] Wright.

Cautious; prudent; safe.. Ramsay.

A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder. Others devised the boat of one tree, called the canoe. Raleigh.

A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. [Written also caravanserai and caravansera.]

rough life in some fishes. -- Cardinal virtues, preëminent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. -- Cardinal winds, winds which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or west.

A rude, rustic man; a churl. The miller was a stout carl. Chaucer.

ost stick to the feet when running, as a hare. Johnson. To carry on, to behave in a wild, rude, or romping manner. [Colloq.]

be alleged as a justification of war. -- Casus fortuitus, an accident against which due prudence could not have provided. See Act of God, under Act. -- Casus omissus, a case not provided for by the statute.

Caution; prudence; wariness. [Obs.] Fulke.

Caution; prudent; wary. [Obs.] "Cautelous, though young." Drayton.

tention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.

ine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general. Cautious feeling for another's pain. Byron. Be swift to hear; but cautious of your tongue. Watts.

a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming. Cowley