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ripples Sc.
Also 6 rippillis, 7 riples.
[? Connected with ripple n.2]
‘A weakness in the back and reins, said to be attended with shooting pains’ (Jamieson).
c1500Rowlis Cursing 58 in Laing Anc. Poet. Scot. 212 Rimbursin, rippillis or belly-thra. 1586Indictment in Scott's Minstr. Scot. Bord. (1869) 457 That the bishop of St. Andrews laboured under sindrie diseases, sic as the ripples. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 43 Priests diseased of the Riples, Hirpling through the streets like criples. 1728Ramsay Advice to Mr. ― 8 For warld's wasters, like poor cripples, Look blunt with poverty and ripples. 1787Taylor Scot. Poems 143 It tempered weel our mony-plies, Ca'd ripples frae our backs. 1898E. W. Hamilton Mawkin xvi. 218 I'm never the same man since the ripples took me. |