ruddle (rudl)

[Also reddle, raddle, beckia hirta). 1. Upper part of the stern with the heads. 2. Lower part of the stem . a , the achenium. as reddle. IMG:content-2572.png:[blocks in formation] Affricke is fittest for carpenters; for if they strike their line upon timber with it.. it will take colour and be marked verie well. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxxv. 6. 21. Ruddine ; redne . His skin, like blushes which adorn The bosom of the rising morn, All over ruddle is, and from His flaming eyes quick glances come. Baker's Poems (1697), p. 11. ( Hall i well .) Lemnian ruddle. See Lemnian . ruddlel (rud'l), v. t.; pret. and pp. ruddled, ppr. ruddling. [ Over the trap-doors to the cellars were piles of market gardeners' sieves, ruddled like a sheep's back with big red letters. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 570. ruddle2 (rud'l), n. A dialectal variant of rid dle2. The holes of the sieve, ruddle , or try. Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 86. ( Trench .) ruddle2 (rud'l), v . t . [See ruddle2 , n .] To sift together; mix as through a sieve. ruddle3+ (rud'l), v . t . [Avar. of raddle1 ; prob. due to ruddle2 .] To raddle; interweave; cro plait, as twigs or split sticks in making latticework or wattles. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] ruddleman (rud'I-man), n.; pl. ruddlemen (-men). Same as reddleman . Besmeared like a ruddleman . Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 467. ruddock (rud'ok), n. [Formerly also ruddoc , rudock ; also dial. reddock , raddock ; roddok , rudduc , ruduc , a ruddock; appar. with dim. suffix- uc , E. -ock , rudu , redne (see rudl , n.); otherwise rhuddog = Corn. ruddoc , a redbreast; but these may be from the AS., and are in any case ult. connected with rud1 , ruddy .] 1. The bird Erythacus rubecula , the robin-redbreast of Europe. See robin1 , 1. The tame rudd ok and the coward kyte. Chaucer , Parliament of Fowls, 1. 349. The ruddock would, With charitable bill, bring thee all this. Shak ., Cymbeline, iv. 2. 224. That le er pelican, the sweet And shrilly ruddock , with its bleeding breast. ruddying. [ O'er Roslin all that dreary night A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam;... It glared on Roslin's castled rock, It ruddied all the copse-wood glen. Scott , L. of L. M., vi. 23.