Definition of rub

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Rub (n.) Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub..

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Dendroidal :: Dendroidal (a.) Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike.
Blocage :: Blocage (n.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry..
Bird Cherry :: Bird cherry () A shrub (Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries.
Sweep-saw :: Sweepings (n. pl.) Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street..
Cassia :: Cassia (n.) A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine..
Hedgerow :: Hedgerow (n.) A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields..
Rubidine :: Rubidine (n.) A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H17N; also, any one of the group od metameric compounds of which rubidine is the type..
Conifer :: Conifer (n.) A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew..
Rubefacient :: Rubefacient (n.) An external application which produces redness of the skin.
Madro–a :: Madro–a (n.) A small evergreen tree or shrub (Arbutus Menziesii), of California, having a smooth bark, thick shining leaves, and edible red berries, which are often called madro–a apples..
Service :: Service () A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries..
Cherubim :: Cherubim (n.) The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim.
Assart :: Assart (v. t.) To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees..
Elastic :: Elastic (a.) Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic..
Hothouse :: Hothouse (n.) A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened..
Rubato :: Rubato (a.) Robbed; borrowed.
Chafe :: Chafe (v. i.) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
Soboles :: Soboles (n.) A sucker, as of tree or shrub..
Strophes :: Strophanthus (n.) A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.
Extersion :: Extersion (n.) The act of wiping or rubbing out.
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