Word Meanings - RUFFLEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of ruffling.
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- RUFFLEMENT
The act of ruffling. - RUFFLER
1. One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers. Milton. 2. That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles. - RUFFLE
To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum. 6. To discompose; to agitate; to disturb. These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind. Sir W. Hamilton. But, ever after, the small violence done Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart. Tennyson. 7. To - RUFFLELESS
Having no ruffle. - TRUFFLE
Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious - UNRUFFLED
Not ruffled or agitated; smooth; calm; tranquil; quiet. Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea. Addison. - TRUFFLED
Provided or cooked with truffles; stuffed with truffles; as, a truffled turkey. - UNRUFFLE
To cease from being ruffled or agitated. Dryden.