资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ruffle \Ruf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruffled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Ruffling}.] [From {Ruff} a plaited collar, a drum beat, a
   tumult: cf. OD. ruyffelen to wrinkle.]
   1. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers,
      plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

   2. To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.

   3. To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by
      agitation or commotion.

            The fantastic revelries . . . that so often ruffled
            the placid bosom of the Nile.         --I. Taylor.

            She smoothed the ruffled seas.        --Dryden.

   4. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.

            [the swan] ruffles her pure cold plume. --Tennyson.

   5. (Mil.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

   6. To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.

            These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind. --Sir W.
                                                  Hamilton.

            But, ever after, the small violence done Rankled in
            him and ruffled all his heart.        --Tennyson.

   7. To throw into disorder or confusion.

            Where best He might the ruffled foe infest.
                                                  --Hudibras.

   8. To throw together in a disorderly manner. [R.]

            I ruffled up falen leaves in heap.    --Chapman

   {To ruffle the feathers of}, to exite the resentment of; to
      irritate.