A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person. / (obsolete) A pimp; a pander. / (obsolete) A lover; a paramour.

To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.

Brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous.

The synaptic ending of the sensory nervous system which are encapsulated and respond to stretch and torque. These responses are propagated back to dorsal root ganglia in the form of an action potential.

plural of Ruffini's corpuscle

simple past tense and past participle of ruffle

Having ruffles. / Puffed up like a bird's feathers. / (informal) Bothered.

plural of ruffian

plural of ruffle

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ruffle