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[Also ripe, ripple; origin uncertain.] An implement for sharpening a scythe. Compare rifles. [Prov. Eng. and New Eng.] Ripe, riffle , vel ripple , a short wooden dagger with which the mowers smooth their scythes after they have used the coarse whetstone. MS . Devon Glo ary . ( Hall i well .) R. I. P. An abbreviation of the Latin phrase requiescat in pace, may he (or she) rest in peace. rip a (rī'pä), n.; pl. rip as, ripæ (rī'päz, -pē). [NL., riparial (ri-pā'ri-al), a. [L. riparius, of or belonging to the bank of a river (see riparian ), + -al. ] 1. Same as riparian. At both these points in the river's course chalk came to the surface, and formed the rock base of the soil of these four riparial districts. Lancet , No. 3446, p. 535. 2. In zoöl., living on a shore; shore-loving; riparious: said of terrestrial animals which frequent the shores of streams, ponds, etc.: as, insects of riparial habits. riparian (ri-pā'ri-an), a. and n. [ L.riparius, of or belonging to the bank of a river ( As long as the Oise was a small rural river, it took us near by people's doors, and we could hold a conversation with natives in the riparian fields. R. L. Stevens on , Inland Voyage, p. 212. Staines, in Middle sex, that quiet but quaint and pretty riparian town. N. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 142. 2. In an at . , of or pertaining to a rip a of the brain; marginal, as a part of the brain. The riparian parts of the cerebrum are the tænia and the fimbria. Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences , VIII. 120. Riparian nations, nations po e ing opposite banks or different parts of banks of the same river. Wharton. Riparian proprietor, an owner of land bounded by water, generally on a stream, who, as such, has a qualified property in the soil to the thread of the stream, with the privileges annexed thereto by law. Shaw , C. J.- Riparian rights, the right of fishery, of ferry, and any other right which is properly appendant to the owner of the soil bordering a river. Angell . 5190 II. n. One who dwells or owns property on the banks of a river. Annoyances to riparians and danger to small craft on the river. The Field, July 24, 1886. ( Encyc . Dict .) riparious (ri-pā'ri-us), a. [ IMG:content-2346.png:[blocks in formation] Yon green boy shall have no sun to ripe The bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit. Shak ., K. John, ii. 1. 472.