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    Ruffle \Ruf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruffled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Ruffling}.] [From {Ruff} a plaited collar, a drum beat, a
    tumult: cf. OD. ruyffelen to wrinkle.]
    1. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers,
    plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

    2. To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.

    3. To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by
    agitation or commotion.

    The fantastic revelries . . . that so often ruffled
    the placid bosom of the Nile. --I. Taylor.

    She smoothed the ruffled seas. --Dryden.

    4. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.

    [the swan] ruffles her pure cold plume. --Tennyson.

    5. (Mil.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

    6. To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.

    These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind. --Sir W.
    Hamilton.

    But, ever after, the small violence done
    Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart.
    --Tennyson.

    7. To throw into disorder or confusion.

    Where best
    He might the ruffled foe infest. --Hudibras.

    8. To throw together in a disorderly manner. [R.]

    I ruffled up falen leaves in heap. --Chapman

    {To ruffle the feathers of}, to exite the resentment of; to
    irritate.

    1. Leverage isn't the only U.S. technique ruffling Europe's feathers.
    2. As the 1992 programme says, 'an efficient early-warning system will be particularly important to avoid ruffling national feathers as a new era dawns for Europe'.
    3. But the would-be happy warrior has become a disillusioned, despairing survivor: "Although I was tired to death, I could not sleep, so removing my tin hat and ruffling my hair I stood up and looked over the front of my hole.
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