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English Dictionary: ruse by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ruse
n
  1. a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) [syn: ruse, artifice]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ruse \Ruse\, n. [F., fr. OF. re[81]ser, rehuser, to turn aside,
      to shuffle, retreat, fr. L. recusare to refuse; pref. re-
      again + causa cause. See {Cause}, and cf. {Recusant}.]
      An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
  
      {[d8]Ruse de guerre}[F.], a stratagem of war.
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