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rubai


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rub  \Rub\,  n. 
 
  {Rub  of  the  green}  (Golf),  anything  happening  to  a  ball  in 
  motion,  such  as  its  being  deflected  or  stopped  by  any 
  agency  outside  the  match,  or  by  the  fore  caddie.  Rubaiyat 
  \Ru*bai*yat"\,  n.  pl.;  sing.  {Rubai}.  [Ar.  rub[=a]'iy[=a]h 
  quatrian,  pl  of  rub[=a]'iy  having  four  radicals,  fr 
  rub[=a]'  four.] 
  Quatrians  as  the  Rubaiyat  of  Omar  Khayyam  Sometimes  in  pl 
  construed  as  sing.,  a  poem  in  such  stanzas.