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  • English Word Rippled Definition of Ripple
  • English Word Ripplet Definition A small ripple.
  • English Word Rippling Definition of Ripple
  • English Word Ripplingly Definition In a rippling manner.
  • English Word Ripply Definition Having ripples; as, ripply water; hence, resembling the sound of rippling water; as, ripply laughter; a ripply cove.
  • English Word Riprap Definition A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom.
  • English Word Riprap Definition To form a riprap in or upon.
  • English Word Riprapped Definition of Riprap
  • English Word Riprapping Definition of Riprap
  • English Word Ripsaw Definition A handsaw with coarse teeth which have but a slight set, used for cutting wood in the direction of the fiber; -- called also ripping saw.
  • English Word Riptowel Definition A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn.
  • English Word Ris Definition A bough or branch; a twig.
  • English Word Rise Definition To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
  • English Word Rise Definition To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
  • English Word Rise Definition To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
  • English Word Rise Definition To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
  • English Word Rise Definition To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.
  • English Word Rise Definition To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
  • English Word Rise Definition To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
  • English Word Rise Definition To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
  • English Word Rise Definition To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
  • English Word Rise Definition To retire; to give up a siege.
  • English Word Rise Definition To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
  • English Word Rise Definition To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
  • English Word Rise Definition To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
  • English Word Rise Definition To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.
  • English Word Rise Definition To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
  • English Word Rise Definition To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
  • English Word Rise Definition To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
  • English Word Rise Definition To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.