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ribbed, ppl. a.|rɪbd|
Also 6 rybbed.
[f. rib n.1 or v.1]
1. a. With qualifying word prefixed: Having ribs of a specified kind or number, or arranged in a certain way.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §75 The .ix. propertyes of an oxe. The fyrste is, to be brode-rybbed. 1601Holland Pliny xxv. x. II. 231 For otherwise ribbed they be and full of veins, as like as may be to Plantaine. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. v. i, I am as gant as leane ribd famine. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. i. 123 In thrilling Region of thicke-ribbed Ice. 1684–88[see flat a. 14]. 1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4391/4 A bay gelt Horse,..well made and well ribb'd. 1753Chambers Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Plantago, The three-ribbed mountain⁓plantain. 1828Sir J. Smith Eng. Flora II. 118 Calyx-leaves..obscurely five-ribbed. 1857Henfrey Bot. §85 Straight⁓ribbed leaves occur not unfrequently in Dicotyledons. 1874Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 39 These are either very close-ribbed, or else simply perforated [etc.].
b. Having ribs like something specified.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 178 A Leaf of the like Bigness, but ribbed like our Plantain.
2. Having ribs or ridges; marked with ribs:
a. Of leaves, plants, shells, etc. ribbed grass = rib-grass.
1742Shenstone Schoolmistr. 103 Radish..And plantain ribb'd that heals the reaper's wound. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 145 The ribbed Music-shell. 1784Twamley Dairying Exemp. 113 Ribwort, ribbed grass. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 248 The permanent involucrum.. is egg⁓shaped, compressed, ribbed. 1851Woodward Mollusca i. 46 Races of Neritina,..with whorls ribbed or keeled. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 153 These ribbed leaves have frequently a great resemblance to parallel-veined leaves. 1871T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 65 The interior of the capsules has a slightly ribbed or striated appearance.
Comb.1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 175 Calicles remotely ribbed-angular, not dentato-echinate.
b. Of knitted or woven fabrics.
1756in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1907) XLIII. 277 Smith wore when he went away..blue ribb'd Stockings. 1782in Ibid. (1859) I. 13/1 A patton [sc. pattern] of White Ribed Stuff for a Wescoat & Briches. 1787Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 397 It is ribbed longitudinally like a ribbed stocking. 1834–6Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 748/1 Ribbed stocking-frame.., employed for working stripes or ribbed stockings. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xlvi, A waistcoat of ribbed black satin. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 125/1 Ribbed Stitch.—This stitch is also called Russian Stitch.
c. In miscellaneous applications.
1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. iv. i, Thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribb'd sea-sand. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 163 The ribbed roofs, which are rich without being gorgeous. 1862Burton Bk.-hunter 56 Their dwarfish ribbed backs like those of ponderous folios. 1887Furnivall R. Brunne's Chron. Wace (Rolls) Introd. p. xix, Two manuscripts,..of the old ribbed paper of about the middle of the fourteenth century.
d. ribbed-nose baboon, the mandrill.
1771Pennant Synop. Quad. 103 Ribbed-Nose B[aboon]. 1862Kearley Links in Chain 261 The huge Mandrill (Cynocephalus mormon), or ribbed-nose Baboon,..is a native of the western coast of Africa. 1894Pop. Sci. Monthly XLIV. 516 The ribbed-nose or mandrill baboon.
3. a. Furnished with ribs.
1814Cary Dante, Inf. x. 74 Nor moved the neck, nor bent his ribbed side.
b. Of horses: (see quot. 1831).
1831Youatt Horse 164 Some horses are what is called ribbed home; there is but little space between the last rib and the hip-bone. 1850Smedley Frank Fairleigh xxi, Rather inclined to be cow-hocked... Not ribbed home. 1861H. Kingsley Ravenshoe I. 231 The horse was not so well ribbed up as he should be.
Hence ˈribbedly adv.
1886Ruskin Præterita I. iv. 123 The paper pure white, and ribbedly gritty. |