ruddle
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Ducange, with the authorities quoted above, make its colour green; but the sinoper, or ruddle of commerce, is of a dark red or purplish hue.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
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 Fitzroy, Robert
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
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 Gilbert, William
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)
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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
"I know you're a ruddled old hunks," said Mount, carelessly.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
"I'll be rid o' that ruddled sack o' lollypops now," observed Lord Dunmore, complacently.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
The pock-marked rascal is lying quiet on the ruddled bricks at the foot of the stairs.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
Even to-day those ruddled drawings can set a spell.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
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 McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
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