ruse, artifice
(noun) a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ruse (countable and uncountable, plural ruses)
(countable, often, hunting, archaic, rare) A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs.
(countable, by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick.
Synonym: strategem
(uncountable) Cunning, guile, trickery.
ruse (third-person singular simple present ruses, present participle rusing, simple past and past participle rused)
(intransitive) To deceive or trick using a ruse.
(intransitive, hunting, archaic, rare) Of an animal: to turn or double back to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.
• ERUs, Ersu, Reus, Rues, US'er, rues, suer, sure, ures, user
Ruse
A city in northeastern Bulgaria
• ERUs, Ersu, Reus, Rues, US'er, rues, suer, sure, ures, user
Source: Wiktionary
Ruse, n. Etym: [F., fr. OF. reĂĽser, rehuser, to turn aside, to shuffle, retreat, fr. L. recusare to refuse; pref. re- again + causa cause. See Cause, and cf. Recusant.]
Definition: An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraund; deceit. Ruse de guerre ( Etym: [F.], a stratagem of war.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 April 2024
(adjective) impelling to action; “it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function”- Arthur Pap; “motive pleas”; “motivating arguments”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
