Definition of rib

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Rib (n.) One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

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Suborner :: Subornation (n.) The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion..
Mark :: Mark (n.) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
Straight :: Straight (superl.) Approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve..
Letterer :: Letterer (n.) One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters..
Imputation :: Imputation () The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged..
Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
Observation :: Observation (n.) Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
Pawnees :: Pawnees (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani..
Biology :: Biology (n.) The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants..
Stahlian :: Stagworm (n.) The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils..
Hypocaust :: Hypocaust (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses..
Accident :: Accident (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute..
Breastknot :: Breastknot (n.) A knot of ribbons worn on the breast.
Distribute :: Distribute (v. t.) To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc..
Referrible :: Referrible (a.) Referable.
Tribble :: Tribble (n.) A frame on which paper is dried.
Aret :: Aret (v. t.) To reckon; to ascribe; to impute.
Veto :: Veto (n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power..
Beneficial :: Beneficial (a.) Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.
Ribbed :: Ribbed (imp. & p. p.) of Ri.
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