Part 464

Bunt rush (Football), a combined rush by main strength. -- Rush line (Football), the line composed of rushers.

Rush"-bear`ing (?), n. A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. [Eng.] Nares.

Rush"buc`kler (?), n. A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler. [Obs.]

That flock of stout, bragging rushbucklers.

Robynson (More's Utopia).

Rushed (?), a. Abounding or covered with rushes.

Rush"er (?), n. One who rushes. Whitlock.

Rush"er, n. One who strewed rushes on the floor at dances. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Rush"i*ness (?), n. [From Rushy.] The quality or state of abounding with rushes.

Rush"ing*ly, adv. In a rushing manner.

Rush"light` (?), n. A rush candle, or its light; hence, a small, feeble light.

Rush"like` (?), a. Resembling a rush; weak.

Rush"y (?), a. 1. Abounding with rushes.

2. Made of rushes.

My rushy couch and frugal fare.

Goldsmith.

Ru"sine (?), a. [NL. rusa, the name of the genus, Malay rsa deer.] (Zoöl.) Of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus Rusa, which includes the sambur deer (Rusa Aristotelis) of India.

Rusine antler (Zoöl.), an antler with the brow tyne simple, and the beam forked at the tip.

Rusk (?), n. [Sp. rosca de mar sea rusks, a kind of biscuit, rosca properly meaning, a screw, spiral.] 1. A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.

2. A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores. Smart.

3. Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.

Rus"ma (?), n. [Corrupt. from Turk. khyryzma a paste used as a depilatory, fr. Gr. &?; an unguent; cf. F. rusma.] A depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the Turks. See Rhusma.

Russ (?), n. sing. & pl. 1. A Russian, or the Russians. [Rare, except in poetry.]

2. The language of the Russians.

Russ, a. Of or pertaining to the Russians.

Rus"set (?), a. [F. rousset, dim. of roux red, L. russus (for rudtus, rudhtus), akin to E. red. See Red, and cf. Roussette.] 1. Of a reddish brown color, or (by some called) a red gray; of the color composed of blue, red, and yellow in equal strength, but unequal proportions, namely, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color.

The morn, in russet mantle clad.

Shak.