rubbish heap (rubʻishhep)

A pile of rubbish; a ma of worthle or rejected material. The idol of to-day is often destined to find its place in the rubbish - heap of the future. Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 781. He yet found no difficulty in holding that the fragments of pottery accumulated in that great rubbish - heap in Rome, the Monte Testaccio, were works of nature, not of human art. Quarterly Rev., CXLV. 116. rubbishing (rub'ish-ing), a . [ rubbish + -ing2 .] Rubbishy; trashy; worthle ; paltry. This is the hend, is it,... of my taking notice of that rubbishing creature, and demeaning myself to patronize Dickens , Nicholas Nickle by, xlii. her? Listen to the ringing this or that sometimes a rub bishing proclamation, etc. The Nation , Oct. 24, 1872, p. 257. rubbish-pulley (rub'ish-pul"i), п . A simple form of tackle-block used with a rope in hoisting materials from a foundation or excavation; a gin-block. E. H. Knight . rubbishy (rub'ish-i), a . [ rubbish + -y1.] Worthle ; trashy; paltry; full of rubbish; containing rubbish. Rome disappoints me much;.. Rubbishy seems the word that most exactly would suit it. All the foolish destructions, and all the sillier sayings, All the incongruous things of past incompatible ages, Seem to be treasured up here to make fools of present and future. Clough , Amours de Voyage, i. 1. On one side is a rubbishy church that has on the balus and planted on posts. C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journey, p. 112. on which a slab of marble is placed to be sub trade of the steps four plaster figures cut off at the waist divided by a grub-saw. rubbing-block (rub'ing-blok), n. In marble- polishing : ( a ) A block of sandstone with which the preliminary operation of smoothing is done by hand. (b) A marble-polisher, marble-rub- ber, or marble-scourer. rubbing-machine (rub'ing-ma-shēn"), n. In linen - bleaching , a machine in which the cloth is subjected to friction between the corrugated surfaces of two planks, of which the upper is moved back and forth over the lower by a crank-shaft. rubbing-panch (rub'ing-pånch), n. Naut . See panch . rubble (rub'l), n. [Early mod. E. rubble, rub bell; Cary away rubbell or brokele of olde decayed houses. Huloet, 1552. rubble The sub-soil is the disintegrated portion of the rock below, and this often forms a "brash," a term applied to the rubble formed on the limestones, especially in the Oölitic Woodward, Geol. of Eng. and Wales (2d ed.), p. 51. strata. 2. Masonry of rubble; rubble-work.-3. By extension, any solid substance in irregularly broken pieces. (a) A ma or aggregation of irregular pieces of broken off by the action of heavy floes, as in the arctic seas. By dint of extraordinary exertions the sledge was got through the rubble to a palæocrystic floe, but the rough work nece itated the relashing of the boat on the sledge. A. W. Greely, Arctic Service, p. 230. (b) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. [Prov. Eng.]-Random rubble. See rubble-work. Rubble drain. See drain . - Snecked rubble, masonry laid up with rough or irregular stones, but so fitted as to preserve a strong bond. See rubble - work , rubble-ice (rub'l-is), n . Fragmentary ice; rubble. See rubble , 3 ( a ). snecking. Stopped by dense rubble - ice , which extended as far south as could be seen. Schley and Soley , Rescue of Greely, p. 216. rubble-stone (rubʻl-ston), n. Same as rubble , 1. rubble-walling (rub'l-wa"ling), n. Same as rubble-work. rubble-work (rub'l-wėrk), n . Mason work built of rubble-stone. Rubble walls are either coursed or uncoursed: in the former the stones are roughly dre ed and laid in courses, but without regard to equality in the height of the courses; in the latter (called random rubble ) the stones are used as they occur, the interstices between them being filled in with smaller pieces, or with mortar or clay, etc. IMG:content-2554.png:[blocks in formation] madder1. Membeus, rubeola (rö-beo-lä), n . [NL., dim., rube us , red: see ruby .] In med .: ( a ) Same as measles , 1. (b) Rubella. rubeolar (rộ-bē'ō-lär), a . [ rubeola + ar3.] Pertaining to, of the nature of, or character- istic of rubeola or measles. rubeoloid (rö-bē'ō-loid), a . [ rubeola + -oid .] [ ruber , red (see Resembling rubeola. ruberite (rö'bėr-īt), n. red1), + -ite2.] Same as cuprite . ruberythric (rö-be-rith'rik), a . [ rubia , madder, + Gr. έρυθρός , red, + -ic .] Derived from madder-root.-Ruberythric acid. Same as rubianic acid. rubescence (rö-bes'ens), n. [ rubescen ( t ) + -cc.] A growing rubescent or red; the state of becoming or being red; a blush. Roget . rubescent (rö-bes'ent), a . [= F. rubescent , rubescen (t-)s, ppr. of rubescere , become red, rubere , be red: see ruby , red1 .] Growing or becoming red; tending to a red color; blushing: Rubia (röʻbi-ä), n . [NL. (Tournefort, 1700), rubia (> It. robbia = Sp . rubia = Pg . ruiva ), madder, ( rube us , red, rubere , be red: see ruby .] A genus of gamopetalous plants, including the ing in small irregular stones; containing or consisting of rubble. The rubbly lavas of the basal series. Darwin, Geol. Observations, i. 87. Rubeæ (rö'bē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Bentham and Hooker, 1865), Rubecula (rö-bek'ū-lä), n. [NL., dim., same as Erythacus. Brehm, 1828. Erythacus. Brehm, rube dino us (rö-bed'i-nus), a. [ L.rube do (ru bed in- ), redne ( red1.] Reddish.