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- English Word Ripen Definition To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.
- English Word Ripen Definition To approach or come to perfection.
- English Word Ripen Definition To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
- English Word Ripen Definition To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
- English Word Ripened Definition of Ripen
- English Word Ripeness Definition The state or quality of being ripe; maturity;; completeness; perfection; as, the ripeness of grain; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment.
- English Word Ripening Definition of Ripen
- English Word Ripidolite Definition A translucent mineral of a green color and micaceous structure, belonging to the chlorite group; a hydrous silicate of alumina, magnesia, and iron; -- called also clinochlore.
- English Word Ripienist Definition A player in the ripieno portion of an orchestra. See Ripieno.
- English Word Ripieno Definition Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato.
- English Word Ripler Definition Alt. of Ripper
- English Word Ripost Definition In fencing, a return thrust after a parry.
- English Word Ripost Definition A quick and sharp refort; a repartee.
- English Word Ripped Definition of Rip
- English Word Ripper Definition One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.
- English Word Ripper Definition One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.
- English Word Ripper Definition A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
- English Word Ripper Definition Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc.
- English Word Ripping Definition of Rip
- English Word Ripple Definition An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
- English Word Ripple Definition To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
- English Word Ripple Definition Hence, to scratch or tear.
- English Word Ripple Definition To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.
- English Word Ripple Definition To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
- English Word Ripple Definition To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.
- English Word Ripple Definition The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.
- English Word Ripple Definition A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.
- English Word Ripple Definition a small wave on the surface of water or other liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but surface tension.
- English Word Ripple Definition the residual AC component in the DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a percentage of the steady component of the current.
- English Word Ripple-marked Definition Having ripple marks.