Rhymes for CROSSRUFF

• the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg

• shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs

• hit with the hand

• confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs

• to get involved in a relationship with another person

• a short light gust of air

• a light inflated pastry or puff shell

• exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)

• bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

• a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin

• thick cushion used as a seat

• a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)

• forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth

• gathered for protruding fullness

• smoke and exhale strongly

• suck in or take (air)

• breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted

• make proud or conceited

• praise extravagantly

• speak in a blustering or scornful manner

• to swell or cause to enlarge

• blow hard and loudly

• not given to gentleness or sentimentality

• physically toughened

• resistant to cutting or chewing

• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

• an aggressive and violent young criminal

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• substantially made or constructed

• violent and lawless

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• any light downy material

• something of little value or significance

• a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

• make a mess of, destroy or ruin

• erect or fluff up

• ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect

• brusque and surly and forbidding

• deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion

• a state of irritation or annoyance

• inhale recreational drugs

• blow hard and loudly

• the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

• miscellaneous unspecified objects

• informal terms for personal possessions

• senseless talk

• unspecified qualities required to do or be something

• information in some unspecified form

• a critically important or characteristic component

• cram into a cavity

• press or force

• obstruct

• overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

• treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting

• fill tightly with a material

• fill with a stuffing while cooking

• shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs

• confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs

• the back side of the neck

• an ardent follower and admirer

• a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen

• bare skin

• a medium to dark tan color

• an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)

• of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather

• strike, beat repeatedly

• polish and make shiny

• a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron

• an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal

• a high tight collar

• common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season

• (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit

• play a trump

• Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula

• any plant of the genus Asperula

• an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose

• as much as necessary

• sufficient for the purpose

• Vegetation, greenery

• Green vegetables used as food

• blow hard and loudly

• (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer

• a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food

• unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

• (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast

• the act of sailing close to the wind

• sail close to the wind

• flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides

• a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

• an instance of driving away or warding off

• reject outright and bluntly

• force or drive back

• a slipper that has no fitting around the heel

• the act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet)

• walk without lifting the feet

• get or become scuffed

• mar by scuffing

• poke at with the foot or toe

• hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash

• An act of overruffing

• To ruff with a higher trump following a prior ruff on the same trick

• stuff too much

• having or caused by an irregular surface

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• not shaped by cutting or trimming

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

• not quite exact or correct

• full of hardship or trials

• violently agitated and turbulent

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• not carefully or expertly made

• not perfected

• unpleasantly stern

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

• food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

• flour or meal or grain used in baking bread

• a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair

• A light, hollow pastry typically filled with cream or custard.

• A weak or ineffectual person.

• A weak hit.

• An old motor vehicle in especially good condition.

• Feed for animals; fodder

• Any particular form of such feed

• an angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child

• a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)

• a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage

• a flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery)

• a children's game in which a blindfolded player tries to catch and identify other players

• creeping European perennial having red or pinkish-white flowers and red roots sometimes used as a substitute for madder in dyeing

• the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting)

• the quality of being popular

• a town in southeast central Arkansas on the Arkansas River

• a town in southeast Missouri, the county seat of Butler County