Definition of ripen

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Ripen (v. i.) To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun..

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Hothouse :: Hothouse (n.) A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened..
Fructescence :: Fructescence (n.) The maturing or ripening of fruit.
Tripennate :: Tripennate (a.) Same as Tripinnate.
Concoctive :: Concoctive (a.) Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive.
Advance :: Advance (v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests..
Epicarp :: Epicarp () The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.
Inconcocted :: Inconcocted (a.) Imperfectly digested, matured, or ripened..
Indigested :: Indigested (a.) Not ripened or suppurated; -- said of an abscess or its contents.
Enripen :: Enripen (v. t.) To ripen.
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..
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..
Ripe :: Ripe (v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe.
Maturate :: Maturate (a.) To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
Mature :: Mature (v. t.) To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans..
Endocarp :: Endocarp (n.) The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.
Kern :: Kern (v. i.) To harden, as corn in ripening..
Ripen :: Ripen (v. t.) To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment..
Prematurity :: Prematurity (n.) The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius..
Ripening :: Ripening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ripe.
Ripen :: Ripen (v. i.) To approach or come to perfection.
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