Crossword clues for ruffed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ruffed \Ruffed\, a. Furnished with a ruff.
Ruffed grouse (Zo["o]l.), a North American grouse ( Bonasa umbellus) common in the wooded districts of the Northern United States. The male has a ruff of brown or black feathers on each side of the neck, and is noted for the loud drumming sound he makes during the breeding season. Called also tippet grouse, partridge, birch partridge, pheasant, drummer, and white-flesher.
ruffed lemur (Zo["o]l.), a species of lemur ( lemur varius) having a conspicuous ruff on the sides of the head. Its color is varied with black and white. Called also ruffed maucaco.
Ruff \Ruff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ruffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ruffing.]
To ruffle; to disorder.
--Spenser.(Mil.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
(Hawking) To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.
(Card Playing) To play a trump card at bridge; as, he ruffed his partner's ace.
Wiktionary
a. having a ruff
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "ruffed".
Yuralon said for the ninth time, in the road outside the Ruffed Grouse.
They had been built some fifteen years earlier to house the thousands of books and copious other treasures of the Emperor Rudolf II, a bronze statue of whom, ruffed and bearded, hook-nosed and melancholic, was erected outside the south front.
By the cold light of the full moon we wended homeward, rejoicing in the possession of twenty-six couple and a half of cock, twelve brace of quail--we found another bevy on our way home and bagged three birds almost by moonlight--five ruffed grouse, and a rabbit.
The eagles and the hawks built their nests in its towering trees, while the cranes fished and the ruffed grouse drummed.
Creeping on toward the sound, slowly and with infinite precaution, we discovered that we were not the only ones going to the dance: the whirring of wings frequently rustled overhead as ruffed grouse skimmed past us in rapid flight.
He even ruffed up his hair with an agitated hand, something he would never do knowingly.
She ruffed the collar of her bathrobe around her throat as Lily, who had been outside feeding the nuthatches, admitted a funnel of frigid air.
He reached out with his hand, a gold ring gleaming in the midday sun, and touched Rajah cautiously on the top of the ruffed head.
She ruffed the collar of her bathrobe around her throat as Lily, who had been outside feeding the nuthatches, admitted a funnel of frigid air.
His good sense barely restrained him from making her an awkward present of a large ruffed Tau Cetan beaded lizard, bright as jewelry, that caught her eye.
I took my Filofax outside and flipped through it while the sun streamed through the trees behind me from which some ruffed lemurs were calling to each other.
He watched the difficult movements of the creatures, ruffed and ceremonious as if they were performing an ancient dance, and he admired the representative fidelity of men who dress up as buzzards on Quinquagesima Sunday.
The High Lords and Ladies were arrayed in a thick hollow circle under the great dome at the chamber's heart with the lesser nobles ranked behind, row on row back into the forest of columns, all in their best velvets and silks and laces, wide sleeves and ruffed collars and peaked hats, all murmuring uneasily so the towering ceiling echoed the sounds of nervous geese.
Perhaps I thought, it had been used for centuries as a sanctuary for ruffed grouse, or possibly by quail, although there were no longer very many quail.
The number had no meaning for him until he first heard the impossible chattering howl of little bells ripping across space at that speed, and first saw a ruffed grouse apparently explode on impact, like a snowball.