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97. My contention was, in a ruridecanal chapter lately held, that bishops suffragan ought thus to be addre ed in virtue of their spiritual office. N. and Q., 7th ser., VIII. 467. rurigenoust (rö-rij'e-nus), a. [L. rurigena, born in the country, rus ( rur- ) +-gena, nere , be born: see- genous .] Born in the country. Bailey , 1727. Rusal (rösä), n . [NL. (Hamilton Smith, 1827), rusa , a deer. Cf. babiru a .] 1. A genus of Cervidæ or subgenus of Cervus , containing the large East Indian stags, with cylindric antlers forked at the top and developing a Sambur Deer ( Rusa aristo tel is ). brow-tine, and a tuft of hair on the hind legs; the rusine deer. They are related to such species as the elk or wapiti of America, and the hart or red deer of Europe. One of these large deer was known to Aristotle: but the species now called Cervus or Rusa aristo tel is is the sambur, that commonly known as the rusa being Cer vus or Rusa hippelaphus . Both are of great size and have a mane. 2. [1. c.] A species of this genus, especially R. hippelaphus . rusa2 (rösä), n . The lemon-gra or ginger gra , Andropogon Schænanthus , yielding rusaoil. [East Indian.] rusalka, n. [Ru .] In Ru ian folk-lore, a water-nymph. Mermaids and mermen have various points of re semblance to the vodyany or water-sprite and the rulis or stream-fairy of Ru ian mythology. die.