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- English Word Ruffle Definition To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- English Word Ruffle Definition To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.
- English Word Ruffle Definition To throw into disorder or confusion.
- English Word Ruffle Definition To throw together in a disorderly manner.
- English Word Ruffle Definition To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- English Word Ruffle Definition To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- English Word Ruffle Definition To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- English Word Ruffle Definition That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.
- English Word Ruffle Definition A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.
- English Word Ruffle Definition A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.
- English Word Ruffle Definition The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Ootheca.
- English Word Ruffled Definition of Ruffle
- English Word Ruffleless Definition Having no ruffle.
- English Word Rufflement Definition The act of ruffling.
- English Word Ruffler Definition One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian.
- English Word Ruffler Definition That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles.
- English Word Ruffling Definition of Ruffle
- English Word Rufigallic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is obtained from gallic acid as a brown or red crystalline substance, and is related to rufiopin and anthracene.
- English Word Rufiopin Definition A yellowish red crystalline substance related to anthracene, and obtained from opianic acid.
- English Word Rufol Definition A phenol derivative of anthracene obtained as a white crystalline substance, which on oxidation produces a red dyestuff related to anthraquinone.