n. [ Cf. W. rhwb. See Rub, v, t, ]
Every rub is smoothed on our way. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
To sleep, perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Upon this rub, the English ambassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]
One knows not, certainly, what other rubs might have been ordained for us by a wise Providence. W. Besant. [ 1913 Webster ]
Flight shall leave no Greek a rub. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]
Rub iron,
Rub of the green (Golf),
v. i.
To rub along or
on
v. t.
It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]
Two bones rubbed hard against one another. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]
The smoothed plank, . . .
New rubbed with balm. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
'T is the duke's pleasure,
Whose disposition, all the world well knows,
Will not be rubbed nor stopped. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
To rub down.
To rub off,
To rub out,
To rub up.
n. The sound of a drum when continuously beaten; hence, a clamorous, repeated sound; a clatter. [ 1913 Webster ]
The rubadub of the abolition presses. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl.;
‖a. [ It. ] Robbed; borrowed. [ 1913 Webster ]
Temple rubato. [ It. ] (Mus.)
n. Rubbish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Antimony rubber,
Hard rubber,
India rubber,
Rubber cloth,
Rubber dam (Dentistry),
n. A closed loop of rubber usually having a thin rectangular cross-section; also called
v. t. To coat or impregnate with rubber or a rubber solution or preparation, as silk. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]