n. [ variant of route. ] A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]
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v. t. To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.;
v. i.
v. t. To cover in copulation. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. rut, OF. ruit, L. rugitus a roaring, fr. rugire to roar; -- so called from the noise made by deer in rutting time. ]
n. (Bot.) A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a Swedish turnip. See Turnip. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. rutaceous, from ruta rue. See Rue the plant. ] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to plants of a natural order (
n. (Chem.) A salt of rutic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ From Rue, v.: cf. Icel. hryggð, hrygð. ]
To stir up gentle ruth,
Both for her noble blood, and for her tender youth. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
It had been hard this ruth for to see. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
With wretched miseries and woeful ruth. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with