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Ruffed Grouse – Ruthenians

Ruffed Grouse

Bonasa umbellus, North American species of grouse of the same genus as the hazel grouse of Europe. It is named from the tufts of RUFIJI RUGER feathers on the sides of its neck, and fre- Professor Sidgwick, C. Stuart-Wortley, quents forests and thickets.

Rufiji

or LUFIJI, a river of eastern Africa which rises to the N. E. of Lake Nyassa, and enters the Indian Ocean opposite the island of Mafia.

Rum

a spirit distilled chiefly in the West Indies from the fermented skimmings of the sugar-boilers and molasses, together with sufficient cane-juice to impart the necessary flavor. Its peculiar flavor is due to butyric ether. Caramel is added for coloring.

Rumelia

EAST. See BULGARIA.

Rumex

dock; a genus of Polygonex; sepals six, the three inner ones enlarging; petals none; stamens six, styles three, stigma multified; achene triquetrous, cov ered by the enlarged inner sepals, the lat ter often tuberculate. There are about 50 known species; generally distributed.

Rump Parliament

in English history, the "rump" (tail end) of the Long Parliament after "Pride's Purge," Dec. 6, 1648. It was dissolved by Cromwell, April 20, 1653; restored, May 7, 1659; dissolved, Oct. 13; recalled, December, 1659, merged in the restored Long Parliament, Feb. 21, 1660.

See PRIDE, THOMAS; LONG PARLIAMENT.

Rupee

a silver coin in use in the British dominions in India, with corresponding ones of much inferior workmanship and variable value in the native states. Also a silver coin of India, worth normally, in United States money, 32.4c.

Rupertsland

an extensive but indeterminate region in the interior of Canada, named in honor of Prince Rupert, and transferred to the Hudson Bay Company, of which that prince was one of the founders, by Charles II. in 1670.

This region is now included in the Northwest Territories.

Rupture

the breaking or laceration of the walls or continuity of an organ, especially of a viscus. Also, the popular name for HERNIA (q. v.).

Rustchuk

a town of Bulgaria; on the right bank of the Danube, where that river is joined by the Lom, opposite Giurgevo, and 42 miles S. W. of Bucharest. Pop. about 36,000.

Rutgers College

an educational institution in New Brunswick, N. J.; founded in 1766, under the auspices of the Dutch Reformed Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 75; students, 460; volumes in the library, about 100,000; number of graduates, 2,900; president, William H.

S. Demarest, LL.D.

Ruthenians

a Slavonic branch of Little Russians. About 3,500,000 dwell in Galicia, over 400,000 in Hungary, and 300,000 in Bukowina. Most of them now belong to the new state of Czecho-Slovakia.