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RIB, n. [L. costa, signifies side, border, extremity.]

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.

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

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

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

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

RIB, v.t.

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.


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RIB, n. [L. costa, signifies side, border, extremity.]

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.

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

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

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

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

RIB, v.t.

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, n. [Sax. rib or ribb; Ice. rif; G. rippe; D. rib, a rib or rafter; Sw. refben, rib or side bone; Dan. ribbe or rib-been, rib-bone; Russ. rebro, a rib or side. This word, like the L. costa, signifies side, border, extremity, whence the compound in Sw. and Dan. rib-bone, that is, side-bone. It may be allied to the L. ripa. The sense of side is generally from extending.]

  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 toward 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. Ribs of a parrel, are short pieces of plank, having holes through which are reeved the two parts of the parrel-rope. – Mar. Dict.
  3. In botany, the continuation of the petiole along the middle of a leaf, and from which the veins take their rise. – Martyn.
  4. In cloth, a prominent line or rising, like a rib.
  5. Something long, thin and narrow; a strip. [W. rhib.]

RIB, v.t.

  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. – Shak.

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

    * In man there are twelve ribs on each side, of which the upper seven are directly connected with the sternum by cartilages, and are called sternal, or true, ribs. The remaining five pairs are called asternal, or false, ribs, and of these each of the three upper pairs is attached to the cartilage of the rib above, while the two lower pairs are free at the ventral ends, and are called floating ribs. See Thorax.

  2. To furnish with ribs] to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.
  3. That which resembles a rib in form or use.

    Specifically: (a) (Shipbuilding)
  4. To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

    It [lead] were too gross
    To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.     Shak.

    To rib land, to leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in plowing.

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

    (b)
  6. 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.

    (b)
  7. Solid coal on the side of a gallery] solid ore in a vein.

    (b)
  8. A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib.

    [Familiar *** Sportive]

    How many have we known whose heads have been broken with their own rib. Bp. Hall.

    Chuck rib, a cut of beef immediately in front of the middle rib. See Chuck. -- Fore ribs, a cut of beef immediately in front of the sirloin. -- Middle rib, a cut of beef between the chuck rib and the fore ribs. -- Rib grass. (Bot.) Same as Ribwort.

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Rib

RIB, noun [Latin costa, signifies side, border, extremity.]

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.

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

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

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

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

RIB, verb transitive

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.

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