n. A projecting band or frill, plaited or bristling, especially one worn around the neck.n. Something resembling a ruff in form or position.n. The loose top of the boot worn in the seventeenth century turned over and made somewhat ornamental: same as boot-top, 2 . Sometimes the top was of a different leather from the rest of the boot. Spanish leather is especially mentioned, and the edge was sometimes ornamented with gold lace or similar passement.n. In machinery, an annular ridge formed on a shaft or other piece, commonly at a journal, to prevent motion endwise. Thus, in the cut, a, a are ruffs limiting the length of the journal b, to which the pillows or brasses are exactly fitted, so that the shaft is prevented from moving on end. Ruffs sometimes consist of separate rings fixed in the positions intended by set-screws, etc. They are then called loose ruffs.n. . Figuratively, that which is outspread or made public; an open display; a public exhibition, generally marked by pride or vanity.n. A breed of domestic pigeons; a kind of Jacobin having a ruff.To plait, pucker, or wrinkle; draw up in plaits or folds.. To ruffle; disorder.In falconry, to hit without trussing.To applaud by making a noise with hands or feet. [Scotch.]n. The bird Pavoncella or Machetes pugnax (the female of which is called a reeve), a kind of sandpiper belonging to the family Scolopacidæ, having in breeding-plumage an enormous frill or ruff of feathers of peculiar texture on the neck, and noted for its pugnacity.n. Accrina or Gymnocephalus cernua, a fish of the family Percidæ, distinguished by the muciferous channels of the head, the villiform teeth of the jaws, and the connected dorsal fins.n. An old game at cards, the predecessor of whist.n. In card-playing, the act of trumping when the player has no cards of the suit led.In card-playing, to trump when holding none of the suit led.Also, erroneously, rough.Same as rough.n. A state of roughness; ruggedness; hence, rude or riotous procedure or conduct.To heckle (flax) on a coarse heckle called a ruffer.In hat-manuf., to nap.n. An obsolete form of rough.n. A low vibrating beat of a drum; a ruffie. See ruffle.n. A dialectal form of roof.n. A large integumental fold surrounding the base of the foot of Haliotis, the ear-shell.n. A Victorian fish, Arripis georgianus, of the family Percidæ. A. salar is the Australian fish called salmon or salmon-trout. See salmon, 3 .
