Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of rub is as below...

Rubricity :: Rubricity (n.) Redness.

Lute :: Lute (n.) A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc..

Shampoo :: Shampoo (v. t.) To wash throughly and rub the head of (a person), with the fingers, using either soap, or a soapy preparation, for the more thorough cleansing..

Halesia :: Halesia (n.) A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels..

Rubble :: Rubble (n.) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc..

Rubbish :: Rubbish (a.) Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.

Yaw-weed :: Yaw-weed (n.) A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant (Morinda Royoc) growing along the seacoast of the West Indies. It has small, white, odorous flowers..

Shrub :: Shrub (n.) A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root..

Triturate :: Triturate (v. t.) To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine..

Chafe :: Chafe (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable..

Miniature :: Miniature (v.) Lettering in red; rubric distinction.

Bean Trefoil :: Bean trefoil () A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida)..

Undergrub :: Undergrub (v. t.) To undermine.

Quince :: Quince (n.) a quince tree or shrub.

Blackthorn :: Blackthorn (n.) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe..

Buttonbush :: Buttonbush (n.) A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.

Morinda :: Morinda (n.) A genus of rubiaceous trees and shrubs, mostly East Indian, many species of which yield valuable red and yellow dyes. The wood is hard and beautiful, and used for gunstocks..

Sweep-saw :: Sweepings (n. pl.) Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street..

Linoleum :: Linoleum (n.) Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied..

Random Fonts

Most Popular