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ruse

noun
/ɹuːz//ˈɹuːseɪ//ˈɹuːz/

Etymology

From Middle English rūse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; circuitous course taken by a hunter to pursue a game animal”), from Old French rëuse, ruse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; trickery”) (modern French ruse (“trick, ruse; cunning, guile”)), from ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”), possibly from Latin rursus (“backward; on the contrary; again, in return”) or Latin recūsāre, from recūsō (“to decline, refuse; to object to, protest, reject”). Doublet of recuse and rouse in the latter case. The verb is derived from the noun. Compare Middle French ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”); see further above.

  1. derived from recūsāre
  2. derived from rursus
  3. derived from rëuse
  4. derived from rūse

Definitions

  1. A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs.

  2. An action intended to deceive

    An action intended to deceive; a trick.

    • Near-synonyms: ploy, stratagem

  3. Cunning, guile, trickery.

    • [H]e [Bertrand du Guesclin] had great natural cunning, that half-savage quality, was full of ruse and trick in war, he was contemptuous towards the high noblesse, but gentle to the poor, and generous to his friends.
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. To deceive or trick using a ruse.

      • Anyway, no man can escape the woman he considers too much rused for him: tear her down or run away toward her if he can't meet her head-and-hind on.
      • And, in a way, s/he is already told, and what s/he him/herself is telling will not undo the fact that somewhere else s/he is told, but it will "ruse" with this; it will offer a variant in the form and even in the story.

    2. Of an animal

      Of an animal: to turn or double back to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.

      • With these whelps [the hunting dogs] who know the way but are in danger of being baffled by the rusing stag, the hunter sends the reliable old harre (perseverance). He is indispensable, as he has often confronted the stag at bay.

    3. A suburb of Sydney in the Campbelltown council area, New South Wales, Australia.

    4. A city in northeastern Bulgaria.

    5. A municipality of Ruse Province, Bulgaria.

    6. A province in Bulgaria.

    7. A surname.

    8. A suburb in the City of Campbelltown, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, named…

      A suburb in the City of Campbelltown, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, named after James Ruse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ruse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ruse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at ruse

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA