To make conformable to a rule, pattern, or standard; adjust or dispose according to rule; regulate; hence, to guide or order aright.
To settle as by a rule; in law, to establish by decision or rule; determine; decide: thus, a court is said to rule a point.
To have or exercise authority or dominion over; govern; command; control; manage; restrain.
To prevail on; persuade; advise: generally or always in the passive, so that to be ruled by is to take the advice or follow the directions of.
To dominate; have a predominant influence or effect upon or in.
To mark with lines by means of a ruler; produce parallel straight lines in, by any means: as, to rule a blank book. See ruled paper, under paper.
To mark with or as with the aid of a ruler or a ruling-machine: as, to rule lines on paper.
Any surface, as of paper or metal, upon which a series of parallel lines has been marked or cut.
Synonyms and Control, Regulate, etc. See govern.
To have power or command; exercise supreme authority.
To prevail; decide.
In law: To decide.
To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; order by rule; enter a rule.
In com., to stand or maintain a level.
To revel; be unruly. Halliwell (under reul).
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plural In ship-building, a book of one of the marine registration societies containing a systematic scheme of scantlings and rules for the construction of all types and sizes of vessels. The most important of these are Lloyd's rules (which see). Rules involving somewhat different systems are published by other societies, as the British Corporation rules, Bureau Veritas rules (French), Record of American and Foreign Shipping rules (United States), German Lloyd rules, etc.
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A carpenter's folding foot-rule, made in sections so arranged that it can be quickly adjusted for use as a yardstick (three feet) or as a four-foot rule or five-foot rule. Sometimes called a two-four rule, according to arrangement of sections. Rules of this type are sometimes called zigzag rules.
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