Rut Synonyms & Definitions

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• RutDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.
2. (v. i.) To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.
3. (n.) Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
4. (v. t.) To cover in copulation.
5. (n.) A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
6. (v. t.) To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.

• RuthlessDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless.

• RutinDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) A glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue (Ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.