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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall. [Obs.] "His ruin startled the other steeds." Chapman.

Capable of being ruined.

To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin. I will not ruinate my fShak. Ruinating thereby the health of their bodies. Burton.

The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.

One who, or that which, ruins.

Having the appearance of ruins, or of the ruins of houses; -- said of certain minerals.

Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. After a night of storm so ruinous. Milton.

A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.

Same as Pruinose.

Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.

Frosty; pruinose.

Not ruined or destroyed. [Obs.] "Unruinated towers." Bp. Hall.

oney lent. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.

The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase. Jer. Taylor.

Injury; degradation; ruin. [Obs.] You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature. B. Jonson.

dency to abuse the possession of power. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Washington.

untry about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform.

unned; astounded; astonished. [Archaic] Spenser. Thus Ellen, dizzy and astound. As sudden ruin yawned around. Sir W. Scott.

To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence.