{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.