These are the meanings of the letters RULFFE when you unscramble them.
- Ruffle (v. i.)
To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- Ruffle (v. i.)
To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- Ruffle (v. i.)
To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- Ruffle (v. t.)
To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- Ruffle (v. t.)
To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.
- Ruffle (v. t.)
To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- Ruffle (v. t.)
To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
- Ruffle (v. t.)
To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- Ruffle (v. t.)
To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.
- Ruffle (v. t.)
To throw into disorder or confusion.
- Ruffle (v. t.)
To throw together in a disorderly manner.
- Ruffle (v. t. & i.)
A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.
- Ruffle (v. t. & i.)
A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.
- Ruffle (v. t. & i.)
That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.
- Ruffle (v. t. & i.)
The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Ootheca.