rip 
Yet must you have a little rip beside, 
of willow twigs, the finest you can wish; 
Which shall be made so handsome and so wide 
As may contain good store of sundry fish. 
J. Demajs (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 155). 
rip 3 (rip), v. ; pret. and pp. ripped, ppr. rippiiii/. 
[Appar. a particular use of rip 1 , like rap 1 in 
"to rap out an oath."] I.intrans. Tobreakforth 
with violence; explode: with out. [Colloq.] 
I rip out with an oath every now and then. 
B. B. Stowe, Dred, xx. 
" You may leave the table," he added, his temper ripping 
out. Ji. L. Stevenson, Prince Otto, ii. 7. 
II. trans. To utter with sudden violence; 
give vent to, as an oath: with out. [Colloq.] 
Here I ripped out something, perhaps rather rash, 
Quite innocent, though. 
Wm. Allen Butler, Nothing to Wear. 
rip 4 (rip), . [Of obscure origin; prob. in all 
uses < ripl, v., in the general sense of 'act vio- 
lently, recklessly, rudely,' hence 'go to ruin or 
decay.'] 1. A vicious, reckless, and worthless 
person; a "bad lot": applied to a man or wo- 
man of vicious practices or propensities, and 
more or less worn by dissipation. [Colloq.] 
" If it 's ever broke to him that his Rip of a brother has 
turned up, I could wish," says the trooper, . . . "to break 
it myself." IHckens, Bleak House, Iv. 
I've been robbed before, and I've caught young rips in 
the act. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 49. 
2. A worthless or vicious animal, as a horse or 
a mule. [Colloq.] 
"There 's an old rip down there in the stable ; you may 
take him and ride him to hell, if you want to," said an 
irate Carolina farmer to a foraging party during the war. 
Trans. Amer. Phil. Ass., XIV. 52. 
rip 5 (rip), v. t. ; pret. and pp. ripped, ppr. rip- 
ping. A dialectal form of reap. Halliwell. 
5190 
II. n. One who dwells or owns property on 
the banks of a river. 
Annoyances to ripariam and danger to small craft on 
the river. The Field, July 24, 1880. (Encyc. Diet.) 
riparious (ri-pa'ri-us), a. [< L. riparian, of or 
belonging to the bank of a river : see riparian.'] 
In zodl. and hot., riparial ; riparian ; living or 
growing along the banks of rivers. 
ripe 1 (rip), a. [< ME. ri/)e, rype, < AS. ripe = 
OS. ripi = D. rijp = MLG. ripe ; LG. riep = OHG. 
rifi, MHG. rife, rif, G. reif, ripe, mature : usu- 
ally explained as 'fit for reaping,' < AS. ripan, 
reap; but this verb, not found outside of AS., 
is unstable in form (see reap), and would hard- 
ly produce an adj. derivative like ripe; if con- 
nected at all, it is more likely to be itself de- 
rived from the adjective (the reg. verb from the 
adj. ripe exists in ripe 1 , v.). The verb applies 
only to cutting grain ; the adj. applies not only 
to mature grain, but to all mature fruit.] 1. 
Beady for reaping, gathering, or using; brought 
to completion or perfection; mature: usually 
said of that which is grown and used for food: 
as, ripe fruit ; ripe corn. 
If it [the fruit] be not ripe, it will draw a mans mouth 
awry. Capt. John Smith, Works, I. 122. 
Cherrie-npe, Ripe, Ripe, I cry, 
Full and fair ones ; come and buy. 
Uerrick, Cherrie-ripe. 
Through the ripe harvest lies their destin'd road. 
Coieper, Heroism. 
Nature . . . 
Fills out the homely quickset-screens, 
And makes the purple lilac ripe. 
Tennyson, On a Mourner. 
2. Advanced to the state of being fit for use, or 
in the best condition for use : said of mutton, 
..,.,. .. * ,,,. .,....,. venison, game, cheese, beer, etc., which has 
rip 5 (rip), n. [A var. of reap, a sheaf.] A hand- acquired a peculiar and approved flavor by 
__, , , __. J 
ful of grain not thrashed. [Scotch.] 
A guid New- Year I wish thee, Maggie ! 
Hae, there 's a ripp to thy auld baggie. 
Burnt, Auld Farmer's Salutation to his Auld Mare. 
rip 6 (rip), n. [Cf. ripple*.'} 
water; a rapid. 
1. A ridge of 
We passed through a very heavy overfall or rip. 
Quoted In R. Tomes's Americans in Japan, p. 389. 
2. A little wave; a ripple; especially, in the 
plural, ripples or waves formed over a bar or 
ledge, as when the wind and tide are opposed. 
The tide rips began to show in the distance. 
Salem (Mass.) Gazette, July 5, 1887. 
rip 7 (rip), n. [Also ripe, ripple; origin uncer- 
tain.] An implement for sharpening a scythe. 
Compare rifle'*. [Prov. Eng. and New Eng.] 
Ripe, riffle, vel ripple, a short wooden dagger with 
which the mowers smooth their scythes after they have 
used the coarse whetstone. 
MS. Devon Glossary. (HaUiwell.) 
R. I. P. An abbreviation of the Latin phrase 
A line of reflection of the endyma of the brain 
upon any tela or plexus. Wilder and Gage. 
Anat. Tech., p. 488. 
riparial (ri-pa'ri-al), n. [< L. riparius, of or 
belonging to the bank of a river (see riparian), 
+ -al.] 1. Same as riparian. 
At both these points in the river's course chalk came to 
the surface, and formed the rock base of the soil of these 
four riparial districts. Lancet, No. 3446, p. 535. 
2. In goal., living on a shore; shore-loving; ri- 
parious: said of terrestrial animals which fre- 
quent the shores of streams, ponds, etc.: as, 
insects of riparial habits. 
riparian (ri-pa'ri-an), a. andw. [< L. riparius, 
of or belonging to the bank of a river (< ripa, 
bank: see rive*, river*), + -an.'] I. a. 1. Per- 
taining to or situated on the bank of a river. 
As long as the Oise was a small rural river, it took us 
' 
keeping. 
When the ripe beer is to be drawn from the ferment- 
ing tun, the contaminations swimming upon it are first 
skimmed on*. Thausing, Beer (trans.), p. 598. 
3. Besembling ripe fruit in ruddiness, juici- 
ness, or plumpness. 
O, how ripe in show 
Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow ! 
Shalt., It. N. D..HL2. 139. 
An underlip, you may call it a little too ripe, too full. 
Tennyson, Maud, ii. 
4. Pull-grown; developed; finished; having 
experience, knowledge, or skill; equipped; ac- 
complished; wise; clever: as, a ripe judgment; 
a ripe old age. 
A man ful ripe in other clerigie 
Off the right Canoun and Ciuile also. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7. 
He than beinge of ripe yeres, ... his frendes ... ex- 
horted hym busely to take a wyfe. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, ii. 12. 
This exercise may bring raoch pronte to ripe heads. 
Ascham, The Scholeiuaster, p. 109. 
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one. 
Shale., Hen. VIII., iv. 2. 61. 
5. Mature; ready for some change or opera- 
tion, as an ovum for discharge from the ovary, 
an abscess for lancing, a cataract for extrac- 
tion, or a fish for spawning. 6. Ready for 
action or effect: often preceded by a specific 
word: as, bursting ripe, fighting ripe that is, 
ready to burst, or to fight. 
Thefoole . . . in an envious srdeene smarting ripe runes 
after him. Armin, Nest of Ninnies (1608). (flares.) 
Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe. 
Shale., J. C., iv. 3. 215. 
I've Bounded my Nuraidians, man by man, 
And find 'em ripe for a revolt. Addison, Cato, i. 3. 
The man that with me trod 
This planet was a noble type, 
Appearing ere the times were ripe. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Conclusion. 
Ripe fish. SeejEiAi. = 8yn. Mature, Ripe. See mature. 
ripe 1 (rip), v. ; pret. and pp. riped, ppr. riping. 
[< ME. ripen, rypen, < A 
ripen 
II. trans. To mature; ripen; make ripe. 
Tin -yrcorne and other groyne, by reason of longe conlde, 
doo seldome waxe rype on the ground ; by reason wherof 
they anj sumtimes inforced to njpe and dry them in theyr 
stooues and hottes houses. 
R. Eden, tr. of Sebastian Munster (First Books on Amer- 
[ica, ed. Arber, p. 292). 
Yon green boy shall have no sun to ripe 
The bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit. 
Shak., K. John, ii. 1. 472. 
ripe 2 (rip), v. t. ; pret. and pp. riped, ppr. rip- 
imj. [< ME. ripen, search: see rip 1 , v.'] 1. To 
search (especially, pockets); rummage; hence, 
to plunder. 
Now if ye have suspowse to Gille or to me, 
Com and rype oure bowse, and then may ye se 
Who had hir. Towneley Mysteries, p. 112. 
And loose the strings of all thy pocks, 
111 ripe them with my hand. 
Robin Ilood and the Beggar (Child's Ballads, V. 190). 
I was amaist feared to look at him [a corpse] ; however, 
I thought to hae turn about wi' him, and sae I e'en riped 
his pouches. Scott, Old Mortality, xxiii. 
2. To poke. 
Then fling on coals, and ripe the ribs [grate]. 
Ramsay, Poems, II. 205. (Jamieson.) 
3. To sweep or wipe clean ; clean. 
The shaking of my pocks [of meal] I fear 
Hath blown into your eyne ; 
But I have a good pike-staff here 
Can ripe them out full clean. . . . 
In the thick wood the beggar fled 
E'er they riped their eyne. 
Robin Hood and the Beggar (Child's Ballads, V. 202). 
4. To examine strictly. 
His Hlghnes delyvered me the boke of his said wil in 
many pointes refounned, wherin His Grace riped me. 
State Papers, i. 296. (Uattiwett.) 
5. To break up (rough ground). Halliicell. 
[Obsolete or prov. Eng. in all uses.] 
ripe 3 t, n. [< L. rjpa, a bank. Cf. rive&, rirer2.] 
A bank. 
Whereof the principal! is within a butt shoote of the 
right ripe of the river that there Cometh downe. 
Leland, Itinerary (1769), iv. 110. (Halliwell.) 
ripe 4 (rip), H. Same as ripj. 
ripely (rip'li), adr. [< ME. rypely (= D. rijpe- 
lijk = MLG. ripJik = G. rcifiich); < ripe 1 , a., + 
-ty 2 .] In a ripe manner; maturely; fully; thor- 
oughly; fittingly. 
Shew the chieff wrytynges ... to Master Paston, that 
he may be more rypelyer grounded yn the seyd mater. 
Paston Letters, I. 254. 
It fits us therefore ripely 
Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness. 
near by people's doors, and we could hold a conversa'tion OS. ro^= D. rijpe'n = MLG. rinen = OHG ri- 
"ss-U.. f^fe^^f^Jsr 
sass- "- MswKrtea * S"*' "r 5*i 
Wheate sowne in the gronnde . . . Bpryngeth, groweth, 
and rypelh with woonderfull celeritie. 
R. Eden, tr. of Sebastian Munster (First Books on Amer- 
[ica, ed. Arber, p. 293). 
The riping corn grows yellow in the stalk. 
Greene, Palmer's Verses. 
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, 
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 26. 
2. In anat., of or pertaining to a ripa of the 
brain; marginal, as a part of the brain. 
The riparian parts of the cerebrum are the trenia and 
the flmbria. Buck's Handbook ofMed. Sciences, VIII. 120. 
Riparian nations, nations possessing opposite banks or 
different parts of banks of the same river. Whartm. 
Riparian proprietor, an owner of land bounded by water, 
generally on a stream, who, as such, has a qualified prop- 
erty in the soil to the thread of the stream, with the priv- 
ileges annexed thereto by law. Shaw, C. J. Riparian 
rights, the right of fishery, of ferry, and any other right 
which is properly appendant to the owner of the soil 
bordering a river. Angell. 
Till death us lay 
To ripe and mellow here, we're stubborn clay. 
Donne, Elegy on Himself. 
2. To grow old. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
. 
., Cymbeline, iii. 5. 22. 
ripe-man t, w. Same as reapman. 
ripen (ri'pn), v. [< ripe* + -en 1 .] I. intrans. 
1. To grow ripe; come to maturity, as grain 
or fruit: used by extension of the maturing 
of anything, as of a boil. 
Wholesome berries thrive and ripen best 
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. 
Shak., Hen. V., i. 1. 61. 
The unnetted black-hearts ripen dark. 
Tennyson, The Blackbird. 
2. To become fit for some particular use by 
lying or resting. 
After ripening, the cream is churned. 
Set. Amer., N. S., LIV. 40. 
It [Indian-ink paste] is then poured out in the form of 
flat cakes, . . . and is left in that condition for many days 
to ripen. Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 335. 
3. To approach or come to completeness or 
perfection ; come to a state of fitness or readi- 
ness ; be prepared or made ready : as, the pro- 
ject is ripening for execution. 
While villains ripen gray with time, 
Must thou, the noble, gen'rous, great, 
Fall in bold manhood's hardy prime? 
Burns, Lament for Glencairn. 
It wag not till our acquaintance had ripened . . . that 
these particulars were elicited. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 190. 
But woman ripen'd earlier, and her life 
Was longer. Tennyson, Princess, ii. 
= Syn. See mature, a. 
H. trans. 1 . To mature ; make ripe, as grain 
or fruit. 
Bid her steal into the pleached bower, 
Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun, 
Forbid the sun to enter. 
Shak., Much Ado, iii. 1. 8. 
The Sun that ripeneth your Pippins and our Pom- 
granates. Hou-ell, Letters, I. i. 24. 
2. To bring to maturity, perfection, or comple- 
tion ; develop to a desired or desirable state. 
Were growing time once ripen'd to my will. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 4. 99. 
Come not, sir, 
Until I send, for I have something else 
To ripen for your good, you must not know 't. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 8. 
