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and a. [ Ephistafus hym presit with his proude wordes, As a ribold with reueray in his Roide spec he. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7651. A wise man seide, as we may seen, Is no man wrecched, but he it wene, Be he kyng, knyght or ribaude : And many a ribaude is mery and baude, That swynkith and berith, bot he day and nyght, Many a burthen of grete myght. Rom. of the Rose, 1. 5673. As for that proverb, the Bishops foot hath been in it, it were more fit for a Scurra in Trivio, or som Ribald upon an Ale-bench. Milton , On Def. of Humb. Remonst. In the last year of this reign (1376) we find the Commons petitioning the King "that Ribalds ... and Sturdy Beggars may be banished out of every town." Ribton - Turner , Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 52. II. a . Licentious; profligate; obscene; coarse; abusive or indecent, especially in language; foul-mouthed. The busy day, Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows. Shak ., T. and C., iv. 2. 9. humiliated, ribald Me they seized and me they tortured, me they lash'd and Me the sport of ribald Veterans, mine of ruffian violators! Tennyson, Boadicea. 5164 during launching. See cut under launching ways. (c) A scantling of wood, about 15 feet long and 4 inches square, used in rack-lashing gun-platforms to keep the platform secure: also used for mortar-platforms. Two rib-bands accompany every platform. - Rib-band line, in ship - building, one of the diagonal lines on the body-plan, by means of which the points called surmarks, where the respective bevelings are to be applied to the timbers, are marked off upon the mold.- Rib-band nail, in ship - build ing, a nail having a large round head with a ring to prevent the head from spiitting the timber or being drawn through: Bp. Hall, Estate of a Christian. used chiefly for fastening rib-bands. Also written ribbing Instead of having the solemn countenance of the average English driver, his face was almost ribald in its conviviality of expre ion. T. C. Crawford, English Life, p. 37. =Syn. Gro , coarse, filthy, indecent. ribaldish (rib'al-dish), a . [ ribald + -ish1.] Disposed to ribaldry. They have a ribaldish tongue. ribald roust (rib'al-drus), a. [Also ribaudrous; A ribaudrous and filthie tongue, os incestum, obscaenum, impurum, et impudicum. Baret, Alvearie. ( Nares .) [ ribaldrie , rib audrie, ribawdrye , rybaudrie , rybaudry , etc., ribauderie , F. ribauderie (= Sp. ribaldería = Pg . ribald aria = It. ribalderia , ML. ribal dria ), ribald , ribaud , a ribald: see ribald .] The qualities or acts of a ribald; licentious or foul language; ribald conversation; obscenity; indecency. ribaldry (ribʻal-dri), n. On fasting dais by-fore none ich fedde me with ale, Out of res on, a-mong rybaudes here rybaudrye to huyre. Her-of, good god, graunte me forzeuene e. Piers Plowman (C), vii. 435. Abstayn euer from wordes of rybaudry . Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), р. 105. Satire has long since done his best; and curst And loathsome Ribaldry has done its worst. Cowper, Table-Talk, 1. 729. IMG:content-2241.png:[blocks in formation]