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Rib [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A bone of animal bodies which forms a part of the frame of the thorax. The ribs in the human body are twelve on each side, proceeding from the spine to the sternum, or towards it, and serving to inclose and protect the heart and lungs.

2. In ship building, a piece of timber which forms or strengthens the side of a ship.

3. RIB s of a parrel, are short pieces of plank, having holes through which are reeved the two parts of the parrel-rope.

4. In botany, the continuation of the petiole along the middle of a leaf, and from which the veins take their rise.

5. In cloth, a prominent line or rising, like a rib

6. Something long, thin and narrow; a strip.

Rib [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To furnish with ribs. In manufactures, to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth; whence we say, ribbed cloth.

2. To inclose with ribs.

Rib [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

2. That which resembles a rib in form or use.

3. One of the timbers, or bars of iron or steel, that branch outward and upward from the keel, to support the skin or planking, and give shape and strength to the vessel.

4. A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder, beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it.

5. One of the rods on which the cover of an umbrella is extended.

6. A prominent line or ridge, as in cloth.

7. A longitudinal strip of metal uniting the barrels of a double-barreled gun.

8. The chief nerve, or one of the chief nerves, of a leaf.

9. Any longitudinal ridge in a plant.

10. In Gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. These are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like.

11. A projecting mold, or group of moldings, forming with others a pattern, as on a ceiling, ornamental door, or the like.

12. Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.

13. An elongated pillar of ore or coal left as a support.

14. A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib.

Rib [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.

2. To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

Ribald [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Low; base; mean.

Ribald [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A low, vulgar, brutal wretch; a lewd fellow.

Ribald [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene.

Ribald [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow.

Ribaldish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Disposed to ribaldry.

Ribaldish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Like a ribald.

Ribaldrous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of a ribald quality.

Ribaldry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Mean, vulgar language; chiefly, obscene language.

Ribaldry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct.

Riban [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In heraldry, the eighth part of a bend.

Riban [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Ribbon.

Riband [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. See Ribbon.

2. See Rib-band.

Ribanded [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ribboned.

Ribaud [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A ribald.

Ribaudequin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An engine of war used in the Middle Ages, consisting of a protected elevated staging on wheels, and armed in front with pikes. It was (after the 14th century) furnished with small cannon.

2. A huge bow fixed on the wall of a fortified town for casting javelins.

Ribaudred [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ribaudrous

Ribaudrous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Filthy; obscene; ribald.

Ribaudry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ribaldry.

Ribaudy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ribaldry.

Ribauld [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A ribald.

Ribault Encyclopedia Britannica

RIBAULT or Ribaut, Jean (c. 1520-1565), a French navigator rendered famous by his connexion with the early settlement of Florida (qrv.), was born at Dieppe, probably about 1520. Appointed by Coligny to the command of a colonizing expedition (from which the admiral was not deterred by the failure of Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon on a similar mission), Ribault sailed on 18th February 1562 with two vessels, and on 1st May landed at St John’s river, or, as he called it, Rivière de Mai. Having settled his colonists at Port Royal Harbour and built Fort Charles for their protection, he returned to France to find the country in the throes of the civil war. In 1563 he appears to have been in England and to have issued The whole and true discoverie of Terra Florida. In April 1564 Coligny was in a position to despatch another expedition under Laudonnière; but meanwhile Ribault’s colony had come to an untimely end, the unfortunate adventurers, destitute of supplies from home, having revolted against their governor and attempted to make their way back to Europe in a boat which was happily picked up, when they were in the last extremities, by an English vessel. In 1565 Ribault was again sent out to satisfy the admiral as to Laudonnière’s management of his new settlement, Fort Caroline, on the Riviere de Mai. While he was still there the Spaniards under Menendez de Avila, though their country was at peace with France, attacked the French ships at the mouth of the river. Ribault set out to retaliate on the Spanish fleet, but his vessels were wrecked by a storm near Cape Canaveral and he had to attempt to return to Fort Caroline by land. The fort had by this time fallen into the hands of the Spaniards, who had slaughtered all the colonists except a few who got off with two ...

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 20, p. 531
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Ribband [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A ribbon.

2. A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position, and give rigidity to the framework.

Ribbed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. or adjective

2. Furnished with ribs; as ribbed with steel.

3. Inclosed as with ribs.

4. Marked or formed with rising lines and channels; as ribbed cloth.

Ribbed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth.

2. Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal.

Ribbed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Rib

Ribbing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like.

Ribbing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Ribbon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

2. A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.

3. Same as Rib-band.

4. Driving reins.

5. A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.

6. A silver.

Ribbon [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.

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Genesis 2:21

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.

Genesis 2:22

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.

Numbers 15:38

Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.

Numbers 34:11

And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:

then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.

2 Samuel 2:23

Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

But Asahel refused to turn away; so Abner thrust the butt of his spear into his stomach, and it came out his back, and he fell dead on the spot. And every man paused when he came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died.

2 Samuel 3:27

And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.

2 Samuel 4:6

And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

They entered the interior of the house as if to get some wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and his brother Baanah slipped away.

2 Samuel 20:10

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

2 Samuel 23:29

Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites,

2 Kings 23:33

And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Kings 25:6

So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.

2 Kings 25:20

And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:

Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

2 Kings 25:21

And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.

There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.

1 Chronicles 11:31

Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

Song of Solomon 4:3

Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.

Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon, and your mouth is lovely. Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.

Jeremiah 39:5

But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.

Jeremiah 39:6

Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.

Jeremiah 52:9

Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.

The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.

Jeremiah 52:10

And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.

Jeremiah 52:26

So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.