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ruddy

ˈrədi
WordNet
Come with an inscription and scrolls
Come with an inscription and scrolls
Come with slightly swiveling, then turned inward edge of ruddy gray quartz chips painted on the inside in luster on the glaze with a fine pattern of palmettes and curls and a band with an engraved Arabic / Persian text. Below the decoration a torpedo-shaped blue spot, a drop that has run down.
  1. (adj) ruddy
    of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
  2. (adj) ruddy
    inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life "a ruddy complexion","Santa's rubicund cheeks","a fresh and sanguine complexion"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Ruddy
    Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips.
  2. Ruddy
    Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame. "They were more ruddy in body than rubies."
  3. Ruddy
    To make ruddy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. ruddy
    Of a red color; reddish; inclining to red; rosy: as, a ruddy blaze; ruddy clouds; ruddy gold; ruddy cheeks.
  2. ruddy
    Glowing; cheery; bright.
  3. ruddy
    Synonyms Ruddy, Rubicund, Rosy. Ruddy indicates a fresh and healthy red upon the human skin, or, by extension, upon skies, etc. Rubicund indicates an unnatural red in the face or some part of it, as the cheeks or the nose; it is especially associated with high living or intemperance in drink. Rosy generally indicates a charming, blooming red: as, rosy cheeks; but it is occasionally used in a bad sense.
  4. ruddy
    To make red or ruddy.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (superl) Ruddy
    rud′i (comp. Rudd′ier, Rudd′iest), adj. red: of the colour of the skin in high health: rosy, glowing, bright
  2. (v.t) Ruddy
    to make red
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. rudig,. See Rud (n.)

Usage in the news

Its ruddy glow is usually quite distinct, but it is only a dozen degrees from its rival, orange Antares, blinking to its upper left. bayweekly.com

Mindy, a ruddy-faced mother in her early 40s, opened the door just after Johanna knocked on it. montereycountyweekly.com

Dining, socializing and reporting were on the agenda when Margaret A Ruddy, executive director, gathered with officers and members old and new, employees and volunteers from the Women's Resource Center Inc on Sept 20. thetimes-tribune.com

He molded its ruddy towers into his own image. nymag.com

Ruddy is a founder and managing principal, with her husband, John Cetra, of the architectural firm CetraRuddy. nytimes.com

Sharon Van Etten, with Hospital Ships and Ruddy Swain. pitch.com

Chief Robert A Carlisle, PFC Kristin Ruddy and Former Councilwoman Maud Robinson. connectionnewspapers.com

A Mass of Christian Burial for Maurice J Ruddy of Emmetsburg will be held at 10:30 am Tuesday, June 26, at Holy Family Catholic Church in Emmetsburg. emmetsburgnews.com

Glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light. kqsfm.com

The North Branch girls tennis team this season earned State Gold Academic Team status, while individual seniors Gabrielle Ruddy, Alexis Ferguson, AlexAnn Koecher and Christina Gamer attained Academic All-State. ecmpostreview.com

When ruddy turnstones arrive on the US coast in August, they're still decked out in their calico colors: black, white and rusty red. qed.org

Though all of them are born in the Arctic, ruddy turnstones spend only three months up there. qed.org

The Ruddy Canadian Cardiovascular Genetics Centre, at the Heart Institute, was the main genetic centre in Canada contributing most patient cases involved in this study and analyzing patient cases from across North America. pharmalive.com

Producer Albert S Ruddy described his friend and colleague, Gray Frederickson, as one of the best and most honest filmmakers he worked with in his five-decade career. newsok.com

The female ruddy duck looks quite a bit like the winter-plumaged male, except for the dusky line across the light cheek patch that only the female has. davisenterprise.com

Usage in literature

Dark-violet eyes, ruddy hair, a superb figure, a skin so white that it looked fragrant, made Kathleen Severn amazingly attractive. "The Danger Mark" by Robert W. Chambers

He was black-haired, ruddy, and wide of girth. "The Trumpeter Swan" by Temple Bailey

She looked like somebody's home fire, all fragrant smoke and golden flame and ruddy coals. "Green Valley" by Katharine Reynolds

The ruddy arches overhead were reflected without interruption in the waveless ruddy lake below. "Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete" by John Symonds

His serious eyes were on the ruddy light shining under the damper of the stove. "The Triumph of John Kars" by Ridgwell Cullum

Her ruddy face was wrinkled up somewhat like an apple in the late fall. "The Sagebrusher" by Emerson Hough

Far in the west he saw a last red bar of light cast by the sunken sun and the deep ruddy glow over the fringe of the forest. "The Young Trailers" by Joseph A. Altsheler

In the big room only the fire gave battle to the shadows, throwing a ruddy glow into the far corners. "North of Fifty-Three" by Bertrand W. Sinclair

Sure enough, a speck of ruddy brown was to be seen slinking along beneath a haystack in the distance. "A Book of Quaker Saints" by Lucy Violet Hodgkin

And he saw a maiden sitting before him in a chair of ruddy gold. "The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3)"

Usage in poetry
Gamelyn's eyes, now getting dim,
Would twinkle at his sight,
And his ruddy wrinkles laugh at him
Between his locks so white:
The fair brow and ruddy cheek
Spoke of less burning skies;
Words cannot paint the look that beamed
In his dark lustrous eyes.
Star of even! sunk the sun!
Lost for e'er the ruddy line;
And the earth is veiled in dun,--
"Nay, in darkness, best I shine!"
To the Spring-queen Gisli prayed,
Low the sun the pale sky trod;
Mute her ruddy hand she raised
Beckon'd back the parting God.
And looking on it, straight there wrought
A ruddy flush about his brow;
His letter woke him: absent thought
Rushed homeward now.
But the time of times foe wonder,
Is when ruddy sun goes under;
And the dusk throws, half afraid,
Silver shuttles of long shade.