• (RP) enPR: ro͞oz, IPA: /ɹuːz/
• (GA) IPA: /ɹuz/

ruse

1. (countable, often, hunting, archaic, rare) A turning#Noun|turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs.
2. (countable, by extension) An action intended to deceive; a trick#Noun|trick.

   Synonyms: strategem

3. (uncountable) cunning#Noun|Cunning, guile, trickery.

• ruse de guerre
• recuse

• French: ruse, finasserie
• German: Kniff, List
• Portuguese: ardil, artimanha, lábia, treta, truque, estrangeirinha
• Russian: кунштю́к
• Spanish: asechanza, artimaña, trácala (Latin America), truco, zancadilla

• French: ruse
• Portuguese: maracutaia
• Spanish: astucia

ruse (ruses, present participle rusing; past and past participle rused)

1. (intransitive) To deceive or trick#Verb|trick using a ruse.
2. (intransitive, hunting, archaic, rare) Of an animal: to turn#Verb|turn or double back to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.
   • [c. 1368–1372, Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Dreame of Chaucer”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […] (in Middle English), [London]: Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, OCLC 932884868 ↗, folio cclxviii, verso ↗, lines 375–382, column 2:

     The mayſter hunte, anone fote hote / wyth his horne blewe thre mote / At the uncouplynge of hys houndes / wythin a whyle the herte founde is / Ihalowed, and rechaſed faſt / Longe tyme, and ſo at the laſt / Thys herte rouſed and ſtale awaye / Fro all the houndes a preuy waye

     The master hunter, anon foothot [at once without stopping] / with his horne blew three mote [notes] / At the uncoupling of his hounds / within a while the hart found is / Hallooed, and rechased fast / Long time, and so at the last / This hart rused and stole away / From all the hounds a privy way]

1. A city in northeastern Bulgaria

• Russian: Ру́се