The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rudd \Rudd\, n. [See Rud, n.] (Zo["o]l.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family ( Leuciscus erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow. A blue variety is called azurine, or blue roach.
Wikipedia
Roud is a surname and may refer to:
- Gustave Roud (1897–1976), Swiss poet and photographer
- Nick Roud (born 1989), British actor
- Richard Roud (1929–1989), American writer on film
- Steve Roud, British expert on folklore and superstition, creator of the Roud Folk Song Index
Roud may also refer to:
- Roud, Isle of Wight, a hamlet on the Isle of Wight in southern England
- Roud Folk Song Index, a database of nearly 200,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language
Usage examples of "roud".
Heron and Roud had already made their passage, though they were even younger than I.
I turned eighteen I left the House of Maidens to dwell in a separate enclosure with Heron and Aelia and Roud, for the time of initiation was approaching, and the disciplines which prepared us to receive the Mysteries required solitude.
It had been several years since any new youths or maidens had come to be trained at Avalon, and Roud was not the only one who had gone out for her testing and never returned.
Roud has her moonblood, and must wait for another opportunity, but tonight the other three will attempt to scry by fire and water.