Definition of rib

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Rib (n.) An elongated pillar of ore or coal left as a support.

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Ritual :: Ritual (n.) A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual..
Confer :: Confer (v. t.) To contribute; to conduce.
Gabel :: Gabel (n.) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise..
Epithet :: Epithet (v. t.) To describe by an epithet.
Proscriber :: Proscriber (n.) One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits..
Scalaria :: Scalaria (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap..
Pension :: Pension (n.) A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
Anabasis :: Anabasis (n.) A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called The Anabasis..
Bicostate :: Bicostate (a.) Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf..
Ribband :: Ribband (n.) A ribbon.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice..
Perfection :: Perfection (n.) A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence..
Collatitious :: Collatitious (a.) Brought together; contributed; done by contributions.
Curvicostate :: Curvicostate (a.) Having bent ribs.
Misarcribe :: Misarcribe (v. t.) To ascribe wrongly.
Yumas :: Yumas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians native of Arizona and the adjacent parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate corn, wheat, barley, melons, etc..
Seminoles :: Seminoles (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who formerly occupied Florida, where some of them still remain. They belonged to the Creek Confideration..
Physiophyly :: Physiophyly (n.) The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly..
Praise :: Praise (v.) Especially, the joyful tribute of gratitude or homage rendered to the Divine Being; the act of glorifying or extolling the Creator; worship, particularly worship by song, distinction from prayer and other acts of worship; as, a service of praise..
Calorifere :: Calorifere (n.) An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes..
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