ruddle

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: rud=dle

CIDE DICTIONARY

ruddle, v. t. 

 To raddle or twist.  [1913 Webster]

ruddle, n. 

 A riddle or sieve.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]

ruddle, n. [See Rud; cf. Reddle.].

 A species of red earth colored by iron sesquioxide; red ocher.  [1913 Webster]

ruddle, v. t. 

 To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge.  Thackeray.  [1913 Webster]
"A fair sheep newly ruddled."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ruddle, n. & v.
--n. a red ochre, esp. of a kind used for marking sheep.
--v.tr. mark or colour with or as with ruddle.

Etymology

rel. to obs. rud: see RUDD

ROGET THESAURUS

ruddle

Redness

N redness, red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry, magenta, damask, purple, flesh color, flesh tint, color, fresh color, high color, warmth, gules, ruby, carbuncle, rose, rust, iron mold, cinnabar, cochineal, fuchsine, ruddle, madder, Indian red, light red, Venetian red, red ink, annotto, annatto, realgar, minium, red lead, redness, rubescence, rubicundity, rubification, erubescence, blush, red, reddish, rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine, rosy, roseate, blowzy, blowed, burnt, rubicund, rubiform, lurid, stammell blood red, russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious, rubineous, rubricate, rubricose, rufulous, rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored, blushing, erubescent, reddened, red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red as a lobster, warm, hot, foxy.

VB be red, become red, blush, flush, color up, mantle, redden, render red, redden, rouge, rubify, rubricate, incarnadine, ruddle.