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Riotous
() Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious.
Riotry
() The act or practice of rioting; riot.
Rip
() A wicker fish basket.
Ripped
() of Rip
Ripping
() of Rip
Rip
() To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.
Rip
() To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
Rip
() To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.
Rip
() To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
Rip
() A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
Rip
() A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
Rip
() A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
Riparian
() Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; as, riparian rights.
Riparious
() Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
Ripe
() The bank of a river.
Ripe
() Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
Ripe
() Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
Ripe
() Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
Ripe
() Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
Ripe
() Ready for action or effect; prepared.
Ripe
() Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
Ripe
() Intoxicated.
Ripe
() To ripen; to grow ripe.
Ripe
() To mature; to ripen.
Ripely
() Maturely; at the fit time.
Ripened
() of Ripen
Ripening
() of Ripen
Ripen
() To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.
Ripen
() To approach or come to perfection.
Ripen
() To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
Ripen
() To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
Ripeness
() The state or quality of being ripe; maturity;; completeness; perfection; as, the ripeness of grain; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment.
Ripidolite
() 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.
Ripienist
() A player in the ripieno portion of an orchestra. See Ripieno.
Ripieno
() Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato.
Ripler
() Alt. of Ripper
Ripper
() One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.
Ripost
() In fencing, a return thrust after a parry.
Ripost
() A quick and sharp refort; a repartee.
Ripper
() One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.
Ripper
() A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
Ripper
() Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc.
Ripple
() An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
Ripple
() To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
Ripple
() Hence, to scratch or tear.
Rippled
() of Ripple
Rippling
() of Ripple
Ripple
() 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.
Ripple
() To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
Ripple
() To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.
