_Kelly._

Isl. _raus-a_, jactabunde multa effutio, _ros-a_, extollere.

RUISE, RUSSE, RUSS, _s._

1. Boast.

_Douglas._

Isl. _raus_, gerrae, loquacitas.

_To mak a tume ruse_, to boast where there is no ground for it, but the reverse, Ang.

2. Commendation, praise, S.

_Ritson._

Su. G. _ros_, _roos_, praise.

~Ruser~, _s._ One habituated to self-commendation.

_Kelly._

RUSHIE, _s._ A broil, Fife.

Teut. _ruysch_, Isl. _rusk-a_, strepitus.

RUSKIE, _s._

1. A basket, made of twigs and straw, for carrying corn, Perths. Loth.

2. A vessel made of straw for holding meal.

_Kelly._

3. A bee-hive, S. B.

Su. G. _rusk_, congeries virgultorum; _rysia_, Germ. _reusche_, a bee-hive.

RUTE, _s._ A blow.

V. ~Rout~.

RUTE, _s._ A fowl.

V. ~Rood-goose~.

_Acts Marie._

RUTHER, _s._ An uproar, S.

_Ross._

A. S. _hruth_, commotio, C. B. _rhuthr_, impetus.

RUTHER, RUTHYR, _s._ Rudder.

_Wallace._

RUTILLAND, _part. pr._ Croaking.

_Lyndsay._

Teut. _rotel-en_, grunnire, murmurare.

RUTOUR, _s._ A spoiler.

V. ~Roysters~.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

_To_ RUVE, _v. a._

V. ~Roove~.

RUWITH, Uncertain.

_Sir Gawan._

S

This letter, as occurring in the beginning of words, cannot, in many instances, be viewed as a radical. While prefixed in some Goth.

dialects, it was thrown away in others; especially before _k_. The same term sometimes appears with _s_, and sometimes without it; as in _cry_ and _scry_; _creek_ of day, and _skreek_. _Ss_ is often used by our old writers as the mark of the pl.; as, _horss_ for _horsis_, horses.

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