rudesse, n.f., harshness; roughness; ruggedness; severity; tumultuousness; fierceness, violence; austerity, strictness; troublesomeness; rude thing, coarse thing; rudeness.
rudiment, n.m., rudiment.
rudimentaire, adj., rudimental, elementary, rudimentary.
rudoyer, v.a., to use roughly, harshly; to speak harshly to; to bully; to ill-treat (a horse).
rue, n.f., street; (bot.) rue. — passante; much frequented street. Courir les —s; to run about the streets; (fig.) to be in everybody’s mouth (of news); to be common (of a thing). — de traverse; cross-street. — écartée; back street. Il est fou à courir les —s; he is stark, staring mad. Les —s en sont pavées; (prov.) it is as common as dust. Être vieux comme les —s; to be as old as the hills. — de chèvre; goat’s-rue.
ruelle, n.f., lane, alley, by-street; bed-side, wall-side; (fig.) lady’s alcove; private circle; literary coterie. Les belles —s de Paris; the best drawing-rooms in the town.
rueller, v.a., to mold (vines).
ruer, v.a., (l.u.) to fling, to hurl, to cast; to throw. — de grands coups; to deal heavy blows.
se ruer, v.r., to throw one’s self; to rush upon.
ruer, v.n., to kick (of horses, etc.).