2. Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine
or pen.
Syn: Predominant; chief; controlling; directing; guiding;
governing; prevailing; prevalent.
2. (Law) A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially
an oral decision, as in excluding evidence.
A bishop then must be blameless; . . . one that
ruleth well his own house, having his children in
subjection. --1 Tim. iii.
2, 4.
2. To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion;
to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive.
I think she will be ruled In all respects by me.
--Shak.
3. To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by
universal or general consent, or by common practice.
That's are ruled case with the schoolmen.
--Atterbury.
4. (Law) To require or command by rule; to give as a
direction or order of court.
5. To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided
by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means
of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result;
as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.
{Ruled surface} (Geom.), any surface that may be described by
a straight line moving according to a given law; -- called
also a {scroll}.
{Dotting pen}, a pen for drawing dotted lines.
{Drawing}, or {Ruling}, {pen}, a pen for ruling lines having
a pair of blades between which the ink is contained.
{Fountain pen}, {Geometric pen}. See under {Fountain}, and
{Geometric}.
{Music pen}, a pen having five points for drawing the five
lines of the staff.
{Pen and ink}, or {pen-and-ink}, executed or done with a pen
and ink; as, a pen and ink sketch.
{Pen feather}. A pin feather. [Obs.]
{Sea pen} (Zo["o]l.), a pennatula. [Usually written
{sea-pen}.]