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An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia.

Of or pertaining to Pomerania, a province of Prussia on the Baltic Sea. -- n.

A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois.

Prussian leather. [Obs.] Dryden.

ignating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic.

Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian.

e by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians. [written also quas.]

One of the separatists or dissenters from the established or Greek church in Russia. [Written also rascolnik.]

(Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium (Spirochæte) in the blood. It is not usually fatal.…

, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.

The unit of monetary value in Russia. It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. The silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents. [Written also rouble.]

Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy. "The rugged Russian bear." Shak.

A Russian, or the Russians. [Rare, except in poetry.]

To Russianize; as, to Russify conquered tribes.

One who, not being a Russian, favors Russian policy and aggrandizement. -- Rus*soph"ilism, n. [Chiefly newspaper words.]

One who dreads Russia or Russian influence. [Words sometimes found in the newspapers.]

Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence.

; the female is dark chestnut above, white beneath. -- Sable iron, a superior quality of Russia iron; -- so called because originally stamped with the figure of a sable. -- Sable mouse (Zoöl.), the lemming.

A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.

An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears.