LekhoriLekhoriA turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs.
The boar was evidently most averse to leave the field in which he had spent so may pleasant hours of uninterrupted rest; […] He turned sharply to one flank; he stopped dead, and went away in the opposite direction as he heard the hunters gallop past; every ruse he tried, but tried in vain.
Cunning, guile, trickery.
[H]e [Bertrand du Guesclin] had great natural cunning, that half-savage quality, was full of ruse and trick in war, he was contemptuous towards the high noblesse, but gentle to the poor, and generous to his friends.
To deceive or trick using a ruse.
Anyway, no man can escape the woman he considers too much rused for him: tear her down or run away toward her if he can't meet her head-and-hind on.
Of an animal: to turn or double back to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.
A suburb of Sydney in the Campbelltown council area, New South Wales, Australia.
A city in northeastern Bulgaria.
A surname.
From Middle English rūse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; circuitous course taken by a hunter to pursue a game animal”), from Old French rëuse, ruse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; tr...
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