Associations to the word «Ruse»

Wiktionary

RUSE, noun. A trick
RUSE, noun. Guile
RUSE, proper noun. A city in northeastern Bulgaria
RUSE DE GUERRE, noun. A stratagem of war.

Dictionary definition

RUSE, noun. A deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne