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Definition of Ruffed
1. a. Furnished with a ruff.
Definition of Ruffed
1. Adjective. having a ruff ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ruffed
1. ruff [v] - See also: ruff
Medical Definition of Ruffed
1. Furnished with a ruff. Ruffed grouse, a species of lemur (lemur varius) having a conspicuous ruff on the sides of the head. Its colour is varied with black and white. Synonym: ruffed maucaco. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruffed
Literary usage of Ruffed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"Range.—Northern United States and southern British Provinces from Maine and Nova
Scotia west to Washington and British Columbia. 300b. Gray ruffed Grouse. ..."
2. Frank Forester's Field Sports of the United States, and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1864)
"This occurred, some years since, on Martha's Vineyard ; but, as I have observed
before, I know no authentic instance of the ruffed Grouse ever lying in the ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"Late in the afternoon of December 27, 1904, a ruffed Grouse ... of them whom I
have met knows of another occurrence of the ruffed Grouse in that vicinity. ..."
4. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"CANADA ruffed GROUSE (Bonasa umbellus togata). ... (The Canada ruffed Grouse is
grayer than the ruffed Grouse, has a grayer tail and is more distinctly ..."
5. Frank Forester's Field sports of the United States and British provinces of by Henry William Herbert (1860)
"ruffed GROUSE SHOOTING ... into the interior of Connecticut, for the especial
purpose of shooting the ruffed Grouse, or as it is the its termed, Partridge. ..."
6. Ornithological Biography by John James Audubon (1832)
"Perhaps, after all, the preference may depend upon a peculiarity in my own taste;
or I may give the superiority to the ruffed Grouse, because it is as ..."
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