Definition of ripe

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Ripe (superl.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine..

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Cubeb :: Cubeb (n.) The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba; in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative..
Gripe :: Gripe (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty..
Cirripedia :: Cirripedia (n. pl.) An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa..
Diagonal :: Diagonal (n.) A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving..
Tripe :: Tripe (n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural..
Kern :: Kern (v. i.) To harden, as corn in ripening..
Unstriped :: Unstriped (a.) Not striped.
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..
Centripetence :: Centripetence (n.) Centripetency.
Puma :: Puma (n.) A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter..
Crust :: Crust (n.) An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing..
Apoda :: Apoda (n.) A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs..
Ripe :: Ripe (v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe.
Ribbon :: Ribbon (v. t.) To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons..
Sorbite :: Sorbite (n.) A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance..
Noli-me-tangere :: Noli-me-tangere (n.) Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- See Impatiens..
Paling :: Paling (n.) The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves..
Overmellow :: Overmellow (a.) Too mellow; overripe.
Border :: Border (n.) A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish..
Inconcocted :: Inconcocted (a.) Imperfectly digested, matured, or ripened..
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