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An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraund; deceit. Ruse de guerre ( Etym: [F.], a stratagem of war.

Concealed or hidden out of the way. [Obs.] The eternal eye whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts. Milton.

In an abstruse manner.

The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. Boyle.

A cosmetic containing white lead. To distinguish ceruse from natural bloom. Macaulay.

Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face. Beau. & Fl.

A cup or dish. Take with thee . . . a cruse of honey. 1 Kings xiv. 3.

A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.

e of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria. The Druses separated from the Mohammedan Arabs in the 9th century. Their characteristic dogma is the unity of God. Am. Cyc.

Covered with a large number of minute crystals.

To observe; to examine with care. [R.] Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Surveyed. Milton.

One who peruses.

To peruse again. Ld. Lytton.

Abstruse. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.

matter; exiting in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.

Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [Obs.] Johnson.

Abstruseness; that which is abstruse. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

s exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.

In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts…