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[Pref. rhytido-, and Greek Palæobot.: A genus of Sig ill aroids. It has large, hexagonal, tri punctate areoles, and narrow, often transversely striate, ribs. 2. Cheerful. "I rejoice your apartment is so riant."-Eliz. Carter: Letters, iii. 67. rib, *rib be, *rybbe, s . [A. S. ribb ; cogn. with Dut. rib ; Icel. rif ; Sw . ref - been (=rib-bone); Dan. rib-been; O. H. Ger. ripp i ; Ger. rippe ; Ru . rebro; prob. from the same root as rive .] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit.: In the same sense as II. 1. 2. Figuratively : (1) A wife, in allusion to Eve. "How many have we known whose heads have been broken by their own rib ."- Bp . Hall : Solomon's Definition. (2) Anything long and narrow; a strip; as, a rid of land. marine; gō, põt, IMG:content-0613.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Anat . ( pl .): Arched and highly elastic bones extending outward and forward from the vertebral column, and forming the lateral walls of the thorax. Normally they are twelve in number on each side, though a small thirteenth rib is sometimes seen. The first seven pairs are affixed to costal cartilages, uniting them to the sternum, whence they are called sternal or true ribs, the remaining five are asternal or false ribs. The three upper asternal ribs are united by their respective cartilages to the rib above them; the two lower, being unattached, are called floating ribs. A rib consists of a head or capitulum, a neck, a tubercle, a body, an angle, and a sub-costal groove. ( Quain .) Besides protecting the lungs from injury, the raising of the ribs by the external inter-costal and other muscles enlarges the chest for inspiration of air. 2. Anything more or le resembling a rib, in form, position, use, .; as (1) Architecture : (a) A timber arch to support a plastered ceiling. (6) Plain, or variously molded, clustered, and ornamented molding on the interior of a vaulted roof. (c) A term sometimes applied to the moldings of timber-roofs, and those forming tracery on walls and in windows. (d) A curved member of an arch center. The rib of a bridge or roof may be of iron or wood, having an arched form and springing from abutments. The rib of a centering is of wood, and forms a part of a frame whose construction depends upon the span and expected weight. (2) Book bind .: One of the ridges on the back of a book which serve for covering the tapes and for IMG:content-0614.jpg:[blocks in formation] duroy. 5. Mach .: An angle-plate cast between two other plates, to brace and strengthen them; as between the sole and wall-plate of a bracket. 6. Mining: A pillar of coal left as a support for the roof of a mine. 7. Shipwright.: One of the curved side timbers of a ship or boat, to which the wooden planking and the interior sheathing is trenailed or pinned. In wooden ve els of consid erable size, timber of the required dimensions and form cannot be rocured to make a rib of on piece, Rib. so it is made in sections scarfed together. These are known as the first, second, and third futtocks, and terminate in the top-timber. In iron ve els, a bar of the proper size is bent into the required form. IMG:content-0615.png:[blocks in formation] 3465 ornament it. When the ribs radiate from a central bo or pendant, it is termed fan-vaulting, or fan tracery vaulting. rib, v. t. [RIB, 8.] 1. To furnish with ribs; to form with ribs, lines, or channels, as cloth. "Was I by rocks engender'd, ribb'd with steel, Such tortures to resist; r not to feel?" Sandys. 2. To inclose, as the body, with ribs; to shut in. "It were too gro To rib her cerecloth in th obscure grave." shakesp.: rchant of Venice, ii. 7. 3. To plow, so as to reave rib-like ridges, somewhat apart. ri-bad-o-quin, ri-bau-de-quin, subst . [Fr.] [RIBALD.] 1. A medieval engine of war, consisting of a kind of war-chariot fortified with iron spikes, placed in front of an army arrayed for battle. In the fourteenth century they were furnished with small cannons. 2. A powerful cro bow for throwing long darts. Ribadoquin. rib'-ald, *rib-aud, *rib-aude, *ryb-aude, 8. & adj . [O. Fr. ribald , ribaud , ribauld (French ribaut )=a ribald, a ruf- fian; connected with O. H. Ger. hripd ; M. H. Ger. ribe =a prostitute; cf. O. Fr. riber to toy with a female; Low Latin ribald us =a ribald, a lewd per- son; ribald a =a prostitute.] mouth fellow. "A mad man, a ribaud , an adulterer."- Foxe : Actes , p. 74. ribbed-mudstones, s. pl. Geology: The lowest beds in the Moffat Strata. They correspond with the inferior part of the Up per Llandeilo. rib-bing, s. [Eng.rib; -ing.] 1. An a emblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timber-work sustaining a vaulted ceiling; ridges on cloth; veins in the leaves of plants, . 2. Agric .: A kind of imperfect plowing, formerly common, by which the stubbles were rapidly turned over, every alternate strip only being moved. By this method only half the land is raised, the furrow being laid over quite flat, and covering an equal space of the level surface. A similar opertation is still in use in some places, after the land has been pulverized by clean plowing, and is ready for receiv ing the seed, and the mode of sowing upon land thus prepared is also called ribbing. IMG:content-0616.png:[graphic][merged small][merged small] in the compounds.] *ribble-rabble, s . 1. A rabble, a mob. 2. Indecent or silly talk. *ribble-row, s. A list, a series. "This witch a ribble - row rehearses Of scurvy names in scurvy verses."-Cotton rib-bon, rib-and, rib'-band, *rib-ban, s . & a [Ir. ribina ribbon, from ribe a flake, a hair, a ribbon; Gael. ribian =a ribbon, from rib , ribe =a hair, a rag, a ta el, a fringe; Wel. rhibin =a streak; O. Fr. rib an , ruben , rubant (Fr. rub an ).] IMG:content-0617.jpg:[blocks in formation] "A ribald king and court Bade him toil on, to make them sport." Scott: Marmion, i. (Introd.) rib-ald-Ish, a. [Eng. ribald; -ish.] Disposed to ribaldry; ribald, lewd, licentious. "The idle, ribaldish , and scurrilous mirth of the prophane."-Bp. Hall: Works, i., § 84. trib-ald-rous, *rib-auld-rous, *ryb-awdouse, adj . [English ribald ; -ous.] Containing ribaldry; ribald, lewd, licentious. "With ribaldrous songs and jests."-Prynne: 1 Histrio Mastia , iii. 1. rib-ald-ry, *rib-aud-rie, s . [O. Fr. ribaldere , ribauderie ; Sp. & Ital. ribaldería ; Port. ribaud aria.] The talk or language of a ribald; lewdne , obscenity, indecency. rib-and, s. [RIBBON.] riband-agate, s. or fastening some part of female attire. 2. Figuratively: (1) A shred, a rag; as, The sails were torn into ribbons. (2) ( Pl . ) : Carriage reins. ( Colloq .) II. Technically : 1. Fiber : A continuous strand of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted condition; a sliver. 2. Carp .: A long, thin strip of wood, or a series of such strips connecting a number of parts. 3. Her .: One of the ordinaries, containing one eighth part of the bend, of which it is a diminutive 4. Metal - working : A long, thin strip of metal, such as a watch-spring; a thin steel band for a belt or an endle saw; a thin band of magnesium for burning; a thin steel strip for measuring, . 5 Naut .: The painted moldings on a ship's side B. As adj .: Of or pertaining to Ribbon ism; as, a Ribbon Society. (1) Blue ribbon : A small piece of ribbon of a blue color on the breast, to indicate that the wearer belongs to the Blue Ribbon Army (q. v.), or at least IMG:content-0618.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0619.png:[blocks in formation] Entom.: A geometer moth, Acidalia avers at a , very common in Europe. The larva feeds on the avens, the meadow-sweet, . riband-weed, s. Bot.: Laminaria saccharin a. *rib-and, v. t. [RIBBON, 8.] To adorn with rib. ands or ribbons. "A ribanded wastcote, and four clean pair of socks."_ Beaum. & Flet.: Fair Maid of the Inn, iii. 1. rib-band, s. [RIBBON.) ribbed, a. [Eng.rib; -ed.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Furnished with ribs; having ribs. 2. Having rising lines and channels, as corduroy cloth. 3. Inclosed, as the body by ribs; shut in. "As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in With rocks unscale able, and roaring waters." Shakesp.: Cymbeline , iii. 1. II. Bot . ( of a leaf ): Having several ribs; having three or more ribs proceeding from the base to the apex of a leaf, and connected by branching, pri mary veins of the form and magnitude of proper veinlets. ribbed-arch, s. Arch.: An arch consisting of iron or timber parallel ribs springing from stone abutments. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; (2) Blue Ribbon Army : A gospel temperance move. ment. (3) The Blue Ribbon : (a) The Order of the Garter. (b) The insignia of the total abstinence move ment headed by Fathers Matthew and Murphy (c) The insignia of paramount excellence in a competition event; as, The animal took the blue ribbon . (4) The Blue Ribbon of the Turf: The Derby (q. v.) (5) The Red Ribbon: The Order of the Bath. (6) To handle the ribbons: To drive. ( Colloq. or IMG:content-0620.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0621.png:[blocks in formation] Hist.: A secret society of Irish men, originated about 1808. Originally an a ociation of Roman Catholics, founded in antagonism to the Orange Society of the northern counties of Ireland, it soon became an agrarian a ociation, having as its main object the securing of " fixity of tenure." The members were bound together by an oath, had pa words, signs, ., and met in lodges. The name was derived from the piece of green ribbon worn as a badge in the button-hole. "The main object of the Ribbon Society was to prevent any landlord, under any circumstances whatever, from depriving a tenant of his land. 'Fixity of tenure,' which has lately been so boldly demanded by the advocates of tenant-right, was then only secretly proclaimed in the lodges of the Ribbon Society , and 'fixity of tenure' it was determined to carry out to the death. The second object was to deter, on pain of almost certain death, any tenant from taking land from which any other tenant had been evicted."-Trench: Realities of Irish Life , ch. iv. IMG:content-0622.png:[blocks in formation]