▪ I. ruffed, ppl. a.1
(rʌft)
Also 6 ruft.
[f. ruff n.2 or v.1]
1. Wrinkled, curled. rare.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens v. vi. 553 Ruffed, or curled Colewurtes. Ibid. 554 The fourth kind of red Cole, is called..in Englishe Wrinckled or ruffed Cole. |
2. Ruffled.
rare—1.
| 1591 Spenser Teares Muses 402 Thy gay Sonne, that winged God of Love, May now goe prune his plumes like ruffed Dove. |
3. Wearing a ruff; provided with ruffs.
| 1586 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1589) 207 What would he have said of our Courtiers, so finely curled, ruft, and perfumed? 1810 Crabbe Borough ii. 98 That marble arch, our sexton's favourite show, With all those ruff'd and painted pairs below. 1859 Kingsley Misc. II. 134 If we met such a ruffed and ruffled worthy as used to swagger by hundreds up and down Paul's Walk. |
b. In names of birds and animals: Having a ruff-like collar or markings, as
ruffed bustard,
ruffed grouse,
ruffed heathcock,
ruffed pigeon;
ruffed lemur,
ruffed macaco.
| 1783 Latham Gen. Synop. Birds II. ii. 805 *Ruffed Bustard. 1819 Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. 448 Ruffed bustard..inhabits Arabia and the northern parts of Africa. |
| 1782 Phil. Trans. LXII. 397 *Ruffed Grous, T. Umbellus. 1785 Pennant Arct. Zool. II. 301 Ruffed Grous, Grous with a great ruff on the hind part of the neck. 1812 A. Wilson Amer. Ornith. VI. 45 The Pinnated Grous was seen in great numbers, but none of the Ruffed. 1872 Coues N. Amer. Birds 235 Ruffed Grouse... Sides of the neck with a tuft of numerous..broad, soft, glossy-black feathers. |
| 1752 Edwards Glean. Nat. Hist. I. 79 The *Ruffed Heath-cock, or Grous. |
| 1840 Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 63 One beautiful species, the *Ruffed Lemur (L. macaco, Lin.), is varied with large patches of black on a pure white ground. 1897 H. O. Forbes Hand-bk. Primates I. 69 The Ruffed or Variable Lemur [Lemur Varius]. |
| 1771 Pennant Syn. Quadrup. 138 *Ruffed maucauco. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) IX. 785/2 The..ruffed maucauco, (the Vari of Buffon), is also an inhabitant of Madagascar. |
| 1611 Cotgr., Pigeon chaperonné, a *ruffed, or copped, Pigeon. |
▪ II. ruffed, ppl. a.2 (
rʌft)
[f. ruff v.5] a. Covered with beaver felt.
b. Heckled with a ruffer.
| 1846 M{supc}Culloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 763 Few beaver or ruffed hats meet the English manufacturer in the markets referred to. 1853 Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 741 When this is finished the ‘ruffed’ work is taken to the tool called a ‘common 8’. 1853 [see ruff v.5 1]. |