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; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. [Obs.] "Boisterous sword." "Boisterous hand." Shak.

Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Bois"tous*ly, adv. -- Bois"tous*ness, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.

taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent. Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice. Shak.

A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.

A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.

A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]

A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.

In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.

ed through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.

Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time. [U.S.] Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with. New Eng. Tales.

In a rude or violent manner.

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

A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.

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

A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.

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.

The drone of a bagpipe. Ruddiman.

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.