Word Finder - ruff

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A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).

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Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.

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Senses relating to animals.

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A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.

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An exhibition of haughtiness or pride.

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Tumultuous or wanton conduct or procedure.

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To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.

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Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.

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To ruffle; to disorder.

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Of a bird: to ruffle its feathers.

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To boast, to brag.

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To speak in a loud and domineering manner; to bluster, to swagger.

Obviously you need to find partner's entry to get your spade ruff.

Obviously you need to find partner 's entry to get your spade ruff.

The surplice is not used, the ministers conducting the ordinary services and preaching in a black gown, of the 16th-century type, with white bands or ruff.

Ruff's processes, leading to lower sugars.

Bartlett, that every ruff assumes tufts and frill exactly the same in colour and markings as those he wore in the preceding season; and thus, polymorphic as is the male as a species, as an individual he is unchangeable.

The white ruff on the neck, and the similarly coloured feathers of the wing, do not appear until the completion of the first moulting.

Declarer must now attack trumps, but North wins the 2nd round and forces declarer must now attack trumps, but North wins the 2nd round and forces declarer to ruff a 3rd time.

And very much, Sir, the ruff and the slashed doublet become you!

He wears a starched and gathered ruff developed from the shirt neck frill after about 1560.

One marsh produced our only white tailed plover of the trip along with purple gallinule, many ruff and black winged stilts.

I cannot remember, if you wore a ruff.

General characteristics Red ruffed lemurs have a distinctive ruff under their chin and around their cheeks.

They get their name from the thick white ruff or mane around their necks.

Feathering on feet and legs, pants on hind legs and large ruff on the neck desired and preferred.

His lean face was dark by contrast, and ended in a curt black beard that looked Spanish and suggested an Elizabethan ruff.

He won with the J, cashed A, crossed to Q and scored a diamond ruff.

It could easily be right to prevent a second club ruff.

In which she is dressed in a stylish Jacobean trilby hat and a great neck ruff, which was the fashion of that time.

However, after winning A, East can cash A and force dummy to ruff the third spade.

Suppose we lead a spade at trick 2. North can ruff a loser with a natural trump trick.

I passed as South because of nice controls, hopefully a trump trick or a club ruff or two.

Nothing can be more expressive of humility and ardent love than some of the actions of the ruff.

Sitting ramrod straight in her big, old chair, chin held high above the starched, white cartwheel of her ruff.

East had to play low, or Andrew could afford to ruff the heart.

Hang on, maybe I could have done better; there was no hurry to ruff the club.

If he returns a spade you ruff in dummy, draw trumps and play a club to the ten and the contract is secure.

A noblewoman wears a gown similar to that of the queen, comprising a stiff corset top, heavy petticoat, underskirt, overskirt, ruff and hat.

That all this wonderful "show" is the consequence of the polygamous habit of the ruff can scarcely be doubted.

The hexafluoride, WF 6, is a very active gaseous compound, which attacks glass and metals, obtained from tungsten hexachloride and hydrofluoric acid (Ruff and Eisner, Ber., 1905, 38, p. 74 2).

Consider taking a ruff at trick two when playing in a long trump suit before drawing trumps.

Ruff effects the same change by oxidizing the sugar to the oxy-acid, ' See Fermentation; and for the relation of this property to structure see Stereoisomerism.

Four active tetroses are possible, and three have been obtained by Ruff and Wohl from the pentoses.

Ruff (Ber., 18 9 8, 3 1, p. 457) from nitro-di-isobutyl by reducing it to the corresponding hydroxylamino compound with aluminium amalgam and oxidizing this with chromic acid mixture.

Thus Wohl prepared l-threose from l-xylose and l-erythrose from l-arabinose, and Ruff obtained d- and l-erythrose from d- and l-arabonic acids, the oxidation products of d- and l-arabinoses.

From each side of his head sprouts a tuft of stiff curled feathers, while the feathers of the throat change colour, and beneath and around it sprouts the frill or ruff already mentioned as giving the bird his name.