Ruth
    n 1: United States professional baseball player famous for
         hitting home runs (1895-1948) [syn: Ruth, Babe Ruth,
         George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat]
    2: the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in
       the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
    3: a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of
       others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn:
       commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos]
    4: a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who
       was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who
       stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
       [syn: Ruth, Book of Ruth]

Ruth \Ruth\ (r[udd]th), n. [From Rue, v.: cf. Icel.
   hrygg[eth], hryg[eth].]
   1. Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.
      [Poetic] "They weep for ruth." --Chaucer. "Have ruth of
      the poor." --Piers Plowman.
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            To stir up gentle ruth,
            Both for her noble blood, and for her tender youth.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   2. That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a
      pitiful sight. [Obs.]
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            It had been hard this ruth for to see. --Chaucer.
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            With wretched miseries and woeful ruth. --Spenser.
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RUTH

   D.A. Harrison at Newcastle University.  Real-time language
   based on LispKit.  Uses timestamps and real-time clocks.

   ["RUTH: A Functional Language for Real-Time Programming",
   D. Harrison in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages
   Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987, pp.297-314].

Ruth
   a friend, a Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, whose father,
   Elimelech, had settled in the land of Moab. On the death of
   Elimelech and Mahlon, Naomi came with Ruth, her daughter-in-law,
   who refused to leave her, to Bethlehem, the old home from which
   Elimelech had migrated. There she had a rich relative, Boaz, to
   whom Ruth was eventually married. She became the mother of Obed,
   the grandfather of David. Thus Ruth, a Gentile, is among the
   maternal progenitors of our Lord (Matt. 1:5). The story of "the
   gleaner Ruth illustrates the friendly relations between the good
   Boaz and his reapers, the Jewish land system, the method of
   transferring property from one person to another, the working of
   the Mosaic law for the relief of distressed and ruined families;
   but, above all, handing down the unselfishness, the brave love,
   the unshaken trustfulness of her who, though not of the chosen
   race, was, like the Canaanitess Tamar (Gen. 38:29; Matt. 1:3)
   and the Canaanitess Rahab (Matt. 1:5), privileged to become the
   ancestress of David, and so of 'great David's greater Son'"
   (Ruth 4:18-22).
   

Ruth, drunk; satisfied

Ruth, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
   Population (2000):    329
   Housing Units (2000): 155
   Land area (2000):     0.438794 sq. miles (1.136471 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.438794 sq. miles (1.136471 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            58420
   Located within:       North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
   Location:             35.383224 N, 81.943365 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):    
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Ruth, NC
    Ruth