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Rudra

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Father of the tempest-gods. The word means “run about crying,” and the legend says that the boy ran about weeping because he had no name, whereupon Brahma said, “Let thy name be Rud-dra.” (Sanskrit, rud, weep; dra, run.) (Vedic mythology.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Ruby (The)
Ruby (The Perfect)
Ruchiel
Rudder
Ruddock
Ruddy-mane [Bloody-hand]
Rudge (Barnaby)
Rudiger
Rudolphine Tables (The)
Rudolstadt (La Comtesse de)
Rudra
Rue
Rue
Rue
Ruffe
Ruffian Hall
Rufus (The Red)
Ruggiero
Rukenaw (Dame)
Rule (St.) or St. Regulus
Rule, Britannia

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