Rub

rub, v. [rubbed (rubd), -bing.I To move backwards and forwards upon the surface of, with pre ure or friction; to wipe, clean, scour; to spread a substance thinly over the surface of to smear. — v. To move along the surface of a body with pre ure to fret, chafe to move or pa with difficulty. — n. Act of rubbing; friction; that which rubs, esp., a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome, a pinch something grating to the feelings sarcasm; joke. [Ga., to rub, Ga. and Ir. rubadh, a rubbing not G. reiben, to rub, E. rive.] — To — rub down. To clean by rubbing, comb or curry. To r. — To separate by friction. — To out. — To remove or separate by friction, erase. — To up. To burnish, polish, clean to excite, awaken, rouse to action. — Rub'ber, n. One who, or that which, rubs in some games of chance, as whist, etc., the decisive game or games or a contest of 3 games a small block of India-rubber for erasing pencil marks; pi. overshoes made of India-rubber. — India rubber. Caoutchouc,— so called as having been orig. used to rub out pencil marks.