ruddle
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Page 22, line 20. rubrica fabrili: in English ruddle or reddle.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
They revolted in 363-362, but were reduced again, and the Athenians established a monopoly of the ruddle, or red earth, which was one of the most valuable products of the island.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
He rubbed the edge with ruddle, and, placing the millstaff on the stone, turned it about on its shorter axis: where the ruddle left its red mark more pecking would be required.
From Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies
The distorted gibbous disk lifted itself above the edge—red as ruddle and enlarged by the refraction: a giant coppery moon, weird and magical.
From Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies
They daub their bodies with a red earth, like the ruddle used in England for marking sheep.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
His appearance much resembled that of the inhabitants of New South Wales; he had also marks raised upon the skin, and his face was blackened and hair ruddled as is sometimes practised by them.
From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 by Matthew Flinders
Every one of these ruddled workers, slouching with his dog at his heels to see something of the fight, was a true unit of his race.
From The Croxley Master: A Great Tale Of The Prize Ring by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Darn the ruddled vixens who come a-drabbing into my mews, with a hussy tew hail you afoot and a baggage tew boot on the boot—" "Keep quiet!"
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The pock-marked rascal is lying quiet on the ruddled bricks at the foot of the stairs.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
"I'll be rid o' that ruddled sack o' lollypops now," observed Lord Dunmore, complacently.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Three hundred pistoles!" he echoed; "for ruddling the blades and risking the lives of nine of the finest swordsmen in Europe?
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
