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Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame. Milton. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Lam. iv. 7.

Blushing; ruddy.

A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench. [Obs.] Shak.

Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.

Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.

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

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

Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.

The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. Shak.

Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.

, a drop of water. With minute drops from off the eaves. Milton. As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. Shak. That drop of peace divine. Keble.

An American duck; the ruddy duck.

e particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. With flakes of ruddy fire. Somerville.

h consist principally of muscle without the fat. The fat was so white and the lean was so ruddy. Goldsmith.

Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. "Pale as a forpined ghost." Chaucer. Speechless he stood and pale. Milton. They are not of complexion red or pale. T. Randolph.

Ruddy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ruddy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A ruddy eruption upon the nose caused by drinking ardent spirits; a grog blossom.

Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. "His rubicund face." Longfellow.

Red; ruddy. [Obs.] Shak.