Vocabulary : Rugin to Ruinable

Rugin : A nappy cloth.
Rugine : An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory. ;; To scrape or rasp, as a bone; to scale.
Rugosa : An extinct tribe of fossil corals, including numerous species, many of them of large size. They are characteristic of the Paleozoic formations. The radiating septs, when present, are usually in multiples of four. See Cyathophylloid.
Rugose : Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.
Rugosity : The quality or state of being rugose.

Rugous : Wrinkled; rugose.
Rugulose : Somewhat rugose.
Ruhmkorff's coil : See Induction coil, under Induction.
Ruin : The act of falling or tumbling down; fall. ;; Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes. ;; That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like. ;; The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin. ;; That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction. ;; To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow. ;; To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.
Ruinable : Capable of being ruined.

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