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worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children. Here to-morrow with his best ruff on. Shak. His gravity is much lessened since the late proclamation came out against ruffs; . . . they were come to that height of excess herein, that twenty shillings were used to be paid for starching of a ruff. Howell.…

A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone, or striped, perch.

Furnished with a ruff. Ruffed grouse (Zoöl.), a North American grouse (Bonasa umbellus) common in the wooded districts of the Northern United States. The male has a ruff of brown or black feathers on each side of the neck, and is noted for the loud drumming sound he makes during the breeding season. Called also tippet…

s.] he [her husband] is no sooner abroad than she is instantly at home, reveling with her ruffians. Bp. Reynolds.

Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians. "The vilest ruffianage." Sir F. Palgrave.

Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.

Ruffianly. Fulke.

Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal.

Ruffianly. [Obs.] Chapman.

Disordered. [Obs.] His ruffin rainment all was stained with blood. Spenser.

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

Having no ruffle.

The act of ruffling. [R.]

One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers. Milton.

The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.

A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles. [Written also dandriff.]

Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh. Addison. Gruff, disagreeable, sarcastic remarks. Thackeray. -- Gruff"ly, adv. -- Gruff"ness, n.

Scurf. [Obs.]

Rubbish. Specifically: (a) Dross or refuse of metals. [Obs.]

f several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. æstivum) are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious to truffles. Truffle pig, a pig used for finding truf…