rudas (rod as)

and a. [Also roudes; cf. Sc. roudoch, roodyoch, sulky-looking.] I. n. A foul-mouthed old woman; a randy; a beldam; a hag. [Scotch.] II. a . Bold; coarse; foulmouthed: applied to women. [Scotch.] But what can ail them to bury the auld carlin (a rudas wife she was) in the night time? Cone-flower ( Rud Scott , Antiquary, xxvi. Rudbeckia (rud-bek'i-ä), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1737), named after Olaus Rudbeck (1630-1702), his son Olaus (1660-1740), and a relative, Olaus John, all Swedish botanical writers, the first the founder (1657) of the Bo IMG:content-2570.png:[blocks in formation] tanical Garden of Upsala.] A genus of compo rudder2 (rud'èr), n. [A dial. form of ridder1.] site plants of the tribe Helianthoideæ and sub- A riddle or sieve. Boote , a serpent liuing by milk of rudder beasts. Florio . tribe Verbesineæ, consisting of rigid, mostly rudder3+ (rud'er), n. An obsolete form of perennial herbs with large or middle-sized rother2. (often showy) heads borne on long stalks. The heads are marked by a hemispherical involucre, commonly with two rows of partly or wholly herbaceous bracts, long spreading sterile ray-flowers, and a conical or cylindrical receptacle, with concave chaff embracing the numerous disk-flowers. The fruit consists of many long compre ed or four-angled smooth achenes, often tipped with an irregular crown-like pappus. The species now cla ed in this genus, including those of Echinacea, number about 25, natives chiefly of the eastern and central United States, with a few in California and Mexico. They are tall or low plants, sparingly branched, rough and often bristly, the leaves alternate, simple and divided or otherwise, or compound. The rays are in some species purple or violet, in one species crimson, but in many, including the most familiar, yellow or orange, contrasting with a commonly dark purple-brown disk. A general name for the species is cone - flower (which see). The most common is R. hirta, a coarse but brilliant plant of meadows and pastures. R. speciosa is a similar plant long cultivated in gardens, often wrongly called R. fulgid a, which name belongs to a more southern species with shorter rays.