rugin

English

Noun

rugin (plural rugins)

1. (obsolete) A nappy cloth.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:

     The lips grew so painful, that she could not endure the wiping the ichor from it with a soft rugin with her own hand.

Related terms

• rugose

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rugin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Irgun, ruing, unrig, uring

Faroese

Noun

rugin

1. accusative singular definite of rugur