rue

• WordNet 3.6
  • v rue feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
  • n rue (French) a street or road in France
  • n rue sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment "he drank to drown his sorrows","he wrote a note expressing his regret","to his rue, the error cost him the game"
  • n rue leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy
  • n rue European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy
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• Interesting fact: Edgar Allan Poe introduced mystery fiction's first fictional detective, Auguste C. Dupin, in his 1841 story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
• • Rue (Bot) A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine. "Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.""They [the exorcists] are to try the devil by holy water, incense, sulphur, rue , which from thence, as we suppose, came to be called herb of grace."
  • Rue Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret.
  • n Rue Sorrow; repetance.
  • Rue To cause to grieve; to afflict. "God wot, it rueth me."
  • Rue To feel sorrow and regret; to repent. "Work by counsel and thou shalt not rue .""Old year, we'll dearly rue for you."
  • Rue To have compassion. "God so wisly [i. e., truly] on my soul rue .""Which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them."
  • Rue To lament; to regret extremely; to grieve for or over. "I wept to see, and rued it from my heart.""Thy will
    Chose freely what it now so justly rues ."
  • Rue To repent of, and withdraw from, as a bargain; to get released from.
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• • rue To cause to grieve; make repentant, compassionate, or sorrowful; afflict: often used impersonally with a personal pronoun.
  • rue To repent of; feel remorse for; regret; hence, to suffer in expiation of: as, to rue one's folly or mistakes.
  • rue To feel sorrow or suffering on account of; suffer from or by; experience loss or injury from.
  • rue To have or take pity on; feel sorry for; compassionate.
  • rue To repent of and withdraw, or try to withdraw, from: as, to rue a bargain. See rue-bargain.
  • rue To be sorrowful; experience grief or harm; suffer; mourn.
  • rue To repent; feel remorse or regret.
  • rue To have pity; have compassion or mercy: often followed by on or upon.
  • n rue Sorrow; repentance.
  • n rue Any plant of the genus Ruta, especially R. graveolens, the common or garden rue, a native of the Mediterranean region and western Asia, and elsewhere common in cultivation. It is a woody herb of bushy habit, 2 or 3 feet high, with decompound leaves, the leaflets of a bluish-green color, strongly dotted. The flowers are greenish-yellow and corymbed, and are produced all summer. The plant has a strong disagreeable odor, and the leaves are extremely acrid, even producing blisters. In antiquity and the middle ages rue was highly esteemed as a medicine, and was believed to ward off contagion. It has the properties of a stimulant and antispasmodic, but accompanied by excitant and irritant tendencies. It is not now officinal, but continues somewhat in popular use. In medieval folk-lore it was a common witches' drug. From its supposed virtues, or by association with the word rue, repentance, it was formerly called herb-of-grace.
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• • n Rue rōō a plant of any species of genus Ruta, with bitter leaves and greenish-yellow flowers—an emblem of bitterness and grief—called Herb of grace: any bitter infusion
  • v.t Rue rōō to be sorry for: to lament: to repent of: to compassionate: to try to withdraw from, as a bargain
  • v.i Rue to be sorrowful: to suffer: to have pity upon:—pr.p. rue′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. rued
  • n Rue sorrow
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