rib roaster

[Eng. ribroast: -er.] A smart or severe blow, especially with a riding whip. rib'-rōast-ing, s. [RIBROAST, v.] A sound beating; a thrashing. "Administer a sound rib roasting to such as were refrac tory." - London Daily Telegraph. rib-ston, s . [From Ribston, in Yorkshire, England, where Sir Henry Goodricke planted three pips sent to him from Rouen, in Normandy. Two of the pips died, but the third became the parent of the Ribston apple-trees in England. ( Brewer .)]. A fine variety of apple; also called a Ribston-pippin. ribston-pippin, s. [RIBSTON.] rib-wõrt, s. [Eng. rib, and wort.] Botany: 1. Sing.: Plant a go lanceolata. [RIBGRASS.] 2. Pl.: Plan tag in aceæ (q.v.). (Lindley.) -ric, *-rick, suff . [A. S. rice power, kingdom, dominion; Icel. riki ; Ger. reich : Dut. rijk : Goth. reiki. From the same root as Lat. rego to rule; Eng. regal , region, right , rich , .] A suffix denot ing jurisdiction, or the district over which jurisdic tion or authority is exercised, as bishopric, . As a termination in proper names it signifies rich or powerful, as Frederic rich in peace. ric-çi-a, s. [Named after P. Francisco Riccio, a Florentine botanist.] Botany : The typical genus of Ricciacere (q. v.). Minute green thalloid plants which are both terrestrial and aquatic. ric-çi-ā-çě-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. ricci(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff.- aceœ.] Bot .: Crystal worts; an order of Acrogens, alliance Muscales. Small terrestrial herbs growing in mud or swimming and floating in water, their leaves and stems blended into a cellular creeping frond, green or purple beneath. Capsule valvele , sunk in the frond, rarely free, at length bursting irregularly or opening by a terminal pore, and discharging numerous spores without elaters. From Europe, the south of Africa, America, . Known genera eight, species twenty-nine. Closely akin to, if not constituting a tribe of, March anti aceæ.