ruddle

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Lemnian earth, ruddle, and very many minerals do this, and yet they are fatuously said to attract.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

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 Jefferies, Richard

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 Jefferies, Richard

Jud turn’d rahnd an gurned at th’ frunt o’ th’ show wi’ his faace aw ruddle.

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

Lemnian, lem′ni-an, adj. pertaining to Lemnos in the �gean Sea.—Lemnian earth, cimolite; Lemnian ruddle, a red chalk found in Lemnos.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various