A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
To throw together in a disorderly manner.
To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone
The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.
The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.