rum1 (rum)

[Abbr. of rumbullion or rum booze. The F. rhum, rum = Sp.ron = Pg.rom = It. rum =D. G. Dan.rum = Sw.rom, rum, are all from E.] 1. Spirit distilled from the juice of the sugar-cane in any form, commonly from the refuse juice left from sugar-making, but often from mola es, as especially in countries where the sugar-cane is not produced. Rum has always been especially an American product, the most esteemed varieties being made in the West Indies and named from the place of manufacture, as Jamaica rum, Antigua. Gre nada, or Santa Cruz rum. It is also made in New England. Rum is a spirit extracted from the juice of sugar-canes, called Kill-Devil in New England! G. Warren, Description of Surinam (1661) (quoted in [The Academy, Sept. 5, 1885, р. 155). 2. Any distilled liquor or strong alcoholic drink: much used in reprobation, with refer ence to intemperance: as, the evils of rum. IMG:content-2600.png:[blocks in formation] II. trans. To cause to make a deep, rattling or jarring sound; rattle. And then he rumbled his money with his hands in his trowsers' pockets, and looked and spoke very little like a thriving lover. Trollope. rumble (rum'bl), n. [ Rum I take to be the name which unwashed moral- ists apply alike to the product distilled from mola es and the noblest juices of the vineyard. Burgundy "in all its sunset glow" is rum . Champagne, "the foaming wine of 2t. Confused reports; rumor. Clamour and rumble , and ringing and clatter. Tennyson, Maud, xxvii. Eastern France," is rum. O. W. Holmes, Autocrat, viii. Pineapple rum. See pineapple. Dickens, Pickwick. rum2 (rum), a. and n. [Early mod. E. rome; supposed to be of Gipsy origin: cf. Gipsy rom, O stormy peple! unsad and ever untrewe! Ay und i screet and chaunging as a vane, Delyting ever in rombel that is newe. Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 941. a husband, Rommani, a Gipsy: see Rom, Rom 3t. Confusion; disorder; tumult. many.] I. a. Good; fine; hence, satirically, in present use, queer; odd; droll. [Slang.] And the neighbours say, as they see him look sick, "What a rum old covey is Hairy-faced Dick!" Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 158. " Rum creeters is women," said the dirty-faced man. Dickens , Pickwick, xiv. "Yours "We were talking of language, Jasper.".... must be a rum one?" "Tis called Rommany." II. n. Any odd, oddity. [Slang.] G. Borrow, Lavengro, xvii. queer person or thing; an No company comes But a rabble of tenants, and rusty, dull rums . Swift , The Grand Question Debated. It seems that though the books which booksellers call rums appear to be very numerous, because they come oftener in their way than they like, yet they are not really so, reckoning only one of a sort. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, V. 471. rumal (rö'mal), n. [ Also roomal, romal; They [Thugs] had arranged their plan, which was very simple. If the darkne suited, Shumshoodeen Khan was to addre a question to Rowley Mellon, who would stoop from his horse to listen; Pershad Sing was then to cast the roomal over his head, and drag him from his horse into the Mango tope, when the holy pick-axe would soon do the rest. J. Grant.