ze or weight_ from that moment, though all
the family fed on it freely every day.--J. Brady, _Clavis
Calendaria_, 183.

This, of course, is a parallelism to Elijah's miracle (1 _Kings_ xvii.
11-16).

=Rut= (_Doctor_), in _The Magnetic Lady_, by Ben Jonson (1632).

=Ruth=, the friend of Arabella, an heiress, and ward of Justice Day. Ruth
also is an orphan, the daughter of Sir Basil Thoroughgood, who died when
she was two years old, leaving Justice Day trustee. Justice Day takes
the estates, and brings up Ruth as his own daughter. Colonel Careless is
her accepted _am['e] de coeur_.--T. Knight, _The Honest Thieves_.

=Ruthven= (_Lord_), one of the embassy from Queen Elizabeth to Mary Queen
of Scots.--Sir W. Scott, _The Abbot_ (time, Elizabeth).

=Rutil'io=, a merry gentleman, brother of Arnoldo.--Beaumont and Fletcher,
_The Custom of the Country_ (1647).

=Rutland= (_The Countess of_), wife of the earl of Essex, whom he married
when he started for Ireland. The queen knew not of the marriage, and was
heart-broken when she heard of it.--Henry Jones, _The Earl of Essex_
(1745).

_Rutland_ (_The duchess of_), of the court of Queen Elizabeth.--Sir W.
Scott, _Kenilworth_ (time Elizabeth).

=Rutledge= (_Archie_), constable at Osbaldistone Hall. Sir W. Scott, _Rob
Roy_ (time, George I.).

_Rutledge_ (_Job_), a smuggler.--Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time,
George III.).

=Rut'terkin=, name of a cat, the spirit of a witch, sent at one time to
torment the countess of Rutland (sixteenth century).

=Ruy'dera=, a duenna who had seven daughters and two nieces. They were
imprisoned for 500 years in the cavern of Montesi'nos, in La Mancha, of
Spain. Their ceaseless weeping stirred the compassion of Merlin, who
converted them into lakes in the same province.--Cervantes, _Don
Quixote_, II. ii. 6 (1615).

=Ryence= (_Sir_), king of Wales, Ireland, and many of the isles. When
Arthur first mounted the throne, King Ryence, in scorn, sent a messenger
to say "he had purfled a mantel with the beards of kings; but the mantel
lacked one more beard to complete the lining, and he requested Arthur to
send his beard by the messenger, or else he would come and take head and
beard too." Part of the insolence was in this: Arthur at the time was
too young to have a beard at all; and he made answer, "Tell your master,
my beard at present is all too young for purfling; but I have an arm
quite strong enough to drag him