ripe2 (rip)

t.; pret. and pp. riped, ppr. rip ing. [ Now if ye have suspowse to Gille or to me, Com and rype oure howse, and then may ye se Who had hir. Towneley Mysteries , p. 112, And loose the strings of all thy pocks, I'll ripe them with my hand. Robin Hood and the Beggar (Child's Ballads, V. 190). I was amaist feared to look at him [a corpse]; however, I thought to hae turn about wi' him, and sae I e'en riped Scott, Old Mortality, xxiii. his pouches. 2. To poke. Then fling on coals, and ripe the ribs [grate]. Ramsay , Poems, II. 205. ( Jamie son .) awry. Capt . John Smith , Works, I. 122. Cherrie- ripe , Ripe , Ripe , I cry, Full and fair ones; come and buy. Herrick , Cherrie-ripe. Through the ripe harvest lies their destin'd road. Cowper, Heroism. Nature Fills out the homely quickset-screens, And makes the purple lilac ripe . Tennyson , On a Mourner. 2. Advanced to the state of being fit for use, or in the best condition for use: said of mutton, venison, game, cheese, beer, etc., which has acquired a peculiar and approved flavor by keeping. When the ripe beer is to be drawn from the fermenting tun, the contaminations swimming upon it are first skimmed off. Thausing, Beer (trans.), p. 598. The shaking of my pocks [of meal] I fear Hath blown into your eyne; But I have a good pike-staff here Can ripe them out full clean... In the thick wood the beggar fled E'er they riped their eyne. Robin Hood and the Beggar (Child's Ballads, V. 202). 4. To examine strictly. His Highnes delyvered me the boke of his said wil in many pointes refourmed, wherin His Grace riped me. State Papers , i. 295. ( Hall i well .) Hall i well. 5. To break up (rough ground). [Obsolete or prov. Eng. in all uses.] ripe3t, n. [L. rip a, a bank. Cf. rive3, river2. ] A bank. Whereof the principall is within a butt shoote of the right ripe of the river that there cometh downe. Leland, Itinerary (1769), iv. 110. ( Hall i well .) Same as rip7 . O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those ki ing cherries, tempting grow! Shak ., M. N. D., iii. 2. 139. An underlip, you may call it a little too ripe , too full. Tennyson , Maud, ii. 4. Full-grown; developed; finished; having experience, knowledge, or skill; equipped; accomplished; wise; clever: as, a ripe judgment; a ripe old age. It fits us therefore ripely Our chariots and our horsemen be in readine . Shak ., Cymbeline, iii. 5. 22. ripe-mant, n . Same as reapman . Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7. ripen (ri'pn), v. [ ripe1 + -en1 .] I. in trans. A man ful ripe in other clerigie Off the right Canoun and Ciuile also. He than beinge of ripe yeres,. horted hym busely to take a wyfe. IMG:content-2347.png:[blocks in formation] Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, ii. 12. This exercise may bring moch profite to ripe heads. Ascham , The Scholemaster, p. 109. He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one. Shak ., Hen. VIII., iv. 2. 51. 5. Mature; ready for some change or operation, as an ovum for discharge from the ovary, an absce for lancing, a cataract for extraction, or a fish for spawning.-6. Ready for action or effect: often preceded by a specific word: as, bursting ripe, fighting ripe that is, ready to burst, or to fight. IMG:content-2348.png:[blocks in formation] I've sounded my Numidians, man by man, And find 'em ripe for a revolt. Add is on , Cato, i. 3. The man that with me trod This planet was a noble type, Appearing ere the times were ripe . Tennyson , In Memoriam, Conclusion. Ripe fish. See fish1 .=Syn. Mature , Ripe . See mature . ripel (rip), v .; pret. and pp. riped , ppr. riping . [ ripen , rypen , ripian , ge - rīpian ( = OS. rip on = D. rijpen = MLG. ripen = OHG. ri fen , riphen , MHG. rifen , G. reifen ), become ripe, ripe , ripe: see ripel , a .] I. in trans. 1. Το ripen; grow ripe; be matured. See ripen . Wheate sowne in the grounde spryngeth, groweth, and rypeth with woon der full celeritie. R. Eden, tr. of Sebastian Munster (First Books on Amer[ica, ed. Arber, p. 293). The riping corn grows yellow in the stalk. Greene, Palmer's Verses. And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 26. 'Till death us lay To ripe and mellow here, we're stubborn clay. Donne, Elegy on Himself. 2. To grow old. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] 1. To grow ripe; come to maturity, as grain or fruit: used by extension of the maturing of anything, as of a boil. Wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. Shak ., Hen. V., i. 1. 61. The unnetted black-hearts ripen dark. Tennyson , The Blackbird. 2. To become fit for some particular use by lying or resting. After ripening , the cream is churned. Sci . Amer ., N. S., LIV. 40. It [Indian-ink paste] is then poured out in the form of flat cakes,.. and is left in that condition for many days to ripen . Workshop Receipts , 2d ser., p. 335. 3. To approach or come to completene or perfection; come to a state of fitne or readine ; be prepared or made ready: as, the project is ripening for execution. While villains ripen gray with time, Must thou, the noble, gen'rous, great, Fall in bold manhood's hardy prime? Burns, Lament for Glen cairn. IMG:content-2349.png:[blocks in formation] Bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter. Shak ., Much Ado, iii. 1. 8. The Sun that ripeneth your Pippins and our Pom- granates. Howell, Letters, I. i. 24. 2. To bring to maturity, perfection, or comple- tion; develop to a desired or desirable state. Were growing time once ripen'd to my will. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 4. 99. Come not, sir, Until I send, for I have something else To ripen for your good, you must not know 't. B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 3. ripen The magistrates should (as far as might be) ripen their consultations beforehand, that their vote in public might bear (as the voice of God). Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 213. He did not ripen his plans, and in the rapidity of his work he was too easily contented with helping himself from the novels or the histories from which he took his plays to the scenes in the order in which he found them. The Century , XXXVIII. 828. 3. To make fit or ready for use. They [pottery-clays) are worked by shallow pits, and are ripened, ground, and washed, as the other clays. Spons Encyc . Manuf ., I. 640.