▪ I. † ruge, n.1 Obs. rare.
[ad. L. rūga ruga.]
A wrinkle or fold.
| c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 724 A ferdful face, his necke in many a ruge Yfretted grete. Ibid. xii. 569 Olyues that me fyndeth lying crispe, With rugis drawe. 1791 A. Graham in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1969) XXVII. iv. 117 [The tusk of the unicorn fish] is quite straight, and has a double spiral ruge on its surface. |
▪ II. † ruge, n.2 Obs.—1
[f. L. rugīre to roar.]
Roaring.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems lxxii. 19 As lyonis with awfull ruge, In yre thai hurlit him heir and thair. |
▪ III. † ruge, v. Obs.—1
[ad. L. rūgāre, f. rūga ruga.]
trans. To wrinkle.
| 1681 Grew Musæum i. v. iii. 115 On his Forehead and Chaps before, where his Skin is only ruged as you draw your Finger downward. |
▪ IV. ruge
obs. f. rug.