Definition of ripe

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Ripe (superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain..

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Away-going :: Away-going (a.) Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops..
Season :: Season (v. t.) To fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate..
Stripe :: Stripe (n.) Color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe..
Strobile :: Strobile (n.) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3..
Fist :: Fist (v. t.) To gripe with the fist.
Nainsook :: Nainsook (n.) A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India..
Tripe :: Tripe (n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural..
Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle..
Gopher :: Gopher (n.) One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile..
Capriped :: Capriped (a.) Having feet like those of a goat.
Zenick :: Zenick (n.) A South African burrowing mammal (Suricata tetradactyla), allied to the civets. It is grayish brown, with yellowish transverse stripes on the back. Called also suricat..
Bar :: Bar (n.) To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
Belt :: Belt (n.) Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand..
Diagonal :: Diagonal (n.) A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving..
Streak :: Streak (n.) A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.
Indigested :: Indigested (a.) Not ripened or suppurated; -- said of an abscess or its contents.
Kernel :: Kernel (v. i.) To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.
Checker :: Checker (n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors..
Bar :: Bar (n.) A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color..
Rattlebox :: Rattlebox (n.) An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod..
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