Index of English words, starting with "ru"

(1) - Rustle (n.) A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.
(2) - Rustle (v. t.) To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
(3) - Rustle (v. i.) To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.
(4) - Rustle (v. i.) To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.

(1) - Rustler (n.) A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person.
(2) - Rustler (n.) One who, or that which, rustles.

(1) - Rusty (superl.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.
(2) - Rusty (superl.) Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.
(3) - Rusty (superl.) Rust-colored; dark.
(4) - Rusty (superl.) Surly; morose; crusty; sullen.
(5) - Rusty (superl.) Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.
(6) - Rusty (superl.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.
(7) - Rusty (superl.) Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.

(1) - Rut (v. t.) To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.
(2) - Rut (n.) A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
(3) - Rut (v. t.) To cover in copulation.
(4) - Rut (v. i.) To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.
(5) - Rut (n.) Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
(6) - Rut (n.) Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.