The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . kind ofJacobin having a (ruf), r. t. [n hia ariiie, rujfedvp. Ilaktui/Ig VuyaijeM, I. yl4. 2t. To nifflp; disorder. Thenceforth the fother hi her lt>fty crest,Huffed of love, gan lowly to iivaile. 5i)fn«r, , 27. 3. In falconry, to hit without trussing. , 170G.—4. To applaud by making anoise with hauds or feet. [Scotch.]ruff- (ruf), H. [Formerly also ruffe; said to he< ruff^, n., and so named because the male hasa ruSf roun
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . kind ofJacobin having a (ruf), r. t. [n hia ariiie, rujfedvp. Ilaktui/Ig VuyaijeM, I. yl4. 2t. To nifflp; disorder. Thenceforth the fother hi her lt>fty crest,Huffed of love, gan lowly to iivaile. 5i)fn«r, , 27. 3. In falconry, to hit without trussing. , 170G.—4. To applaud by making anoise with hauds or feet. [Scotch.]ruff- (ruf), H. [Formerly also ruffe; said to he< ruff^, n., and so named because the male hasa ruSf round its neck in the breeding season;biit this is doubtful. The female is called arcere, a name supposed to be formed from ruffby some change left unexplained, but a dilTercnt source.] The bird IufDuccl-la or Maclicteg pugnax (the female of which is. \{Pavoii(ftla or Mnchrtes pufrnax). called a recre), a Idiid of sandpiper belongingto the family ticolopiiciria!, having in breeil-ing-plnmage an enormous frill or rulT of fea-thers of peculiar texture on the neck, and notedfor its pugnacity, it is widely clistrihuted in the OldWorM. and ocinirs as a stracKler in Americii. The lengthis about VI inches. Besides the cniinus nitt. the bii-d hasat the same seastm a pair of ear-tufts and tile face studdeilwith tlesliy tuliercles. The peneral plnniape is nnlehvariegated, and the featht-is of the rulf sport in severalcolors and eniliessly varied i>atterns. When these feathersare erected in lighting, they form a sort of shuld or buck-ler. Also called combatant and Jit^lttinff sandpiper. It has often been said that no one ever saw two Ihiffsalike. This is perhajis an over-statement; but . . fiftyexamples or more may be compared without tlnding a veryclose resemblance between any two of them. A. Sewton, Encyc. Brit,, XXI. 64. ruff* (r
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