[rooz] 
| a trick, stratagem, or artifice. |
[roo-sey] | a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube. 160,351. |
| ruse (rōōs, rōōz) n. A crafty stratagem; a subterfuge. See Synonyms at wile. [Middle English, detour, dodging, from Old French, from ruser, to drive back; see rush1.] |
| Ru·se (rŏŏ'sā) A city of northeast Bulgaria on the Danube River south of Bucharest, Romania. Founded as a Roman fortress, it is today a major port and industrial center. Population: 159,000. |
Ruse
city of northern Bulgaria, on the Danube River near the mouth of the Rusenski Lom. Bulgaria's principal river port and a transportation hub for road and rail, Ruse has regular shipping services on the Danube and an airport. Upstream is the Friendship Bridge, built in 1954, carrying road and rail traffic across the river to Giurgiu, in Romania. Ruse is an industrial town, with an oil refinery, railway car and locomotive works, textile mills, and plants for food processing and the production of agricultural machinery, leather goods, ceramics, and other consumer goods. The harbour is cut in the Danube alluvial plain at the foot of low bluffs.
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