Noah Webster
Ruffian
RUF'FIAN, noun
A boisterous, brutal fellow; a fellow ready for any desperate crime; a robber; a cut-throat; a murderer.
RUF'FIAN, adjective Brutal; savagely boisterous; as ruffian rage.
RUF'FIAN, verb intransitive To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.