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English Dictionary: RUTH by the DICT Development Group
5 results for RUTH
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ruth
n
  1. United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
    Synonym(s): Ruth, Babe Ruth, George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat
  2. the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
  3. a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"
    Synonym(s): commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos
  4. a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
    Synonym(s): Ruth, Book of Ruth
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ruth, CA
      Zip code(s): 95526
   Ruth, MI
      Zip code(s): 48470
   Ruth, MS
      Zip code(s): 39662
   Ruth, NC (town, FIPS 58420)
      Location: 35.38373 N, 81.94541 W
      Population (1990): 366 (147 housing units)
      Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   RUTH
  
      D.A. Harrison at Newcastle University.   Real-time language
      based on LispKit.   Uses timestamps and real-time clocks.
  
      ["RUTH: A Functional Language for Real-Time Programming",
      D. Harrison in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages
      Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987, pp.297-314].
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Ruth
      a friend, a Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, whose father,
      Elimelech, had settled in the land of Moab. On the death of
      Elimelech and Mahlon, Naomi came with Ruth, her daughter-in-law,
      who refused to leave her, to Bethlehem, the old home from which
      Elimelech had migrated. There she had a rich relative, Boaz, to
      whom Ruth was eventually married. She became the mother of Obed,
      the grandfather of David. Thus Ruth, a Gentile, is among the
      maternal progenitors of our Lord (Matt. 1:5). The story of "the
      gleaner Ruth illustrates the friendly relations between the good
      Boaz and his reapers, the Jewish land system, the method of
      transferring property from one person to another, the working of
      the Mosaic law for the relief of distressed and ruined families;
      but, above all, handing down the unselfishness, the brave love,
      the unshaken trustfulness of her who, though not of the chosen
      race, was, like the Canaanitess Tamar (Gen. 38:29; Matt. 1:3)
      and the Canaanitess Rahab (Matt. 1:5), privileged to become the
      ancestress of David, and so of 'great David's greater Son'"
      (Ruth 4:18-22).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Ruth, drunk; satisfied
  
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