Search the Dictionary

Trituration. [R.]

A noun having three cases only.

Anything in three parts or leaves. Specifically: --

Of or pertaining to dancing; performed by dancing. [R.] " Tripudiary augurations." Sir T. Browne.

To dance. [R.] Cockeram.

The act of dancing. [R.] Bacon. Carlyle.

To rip; to cut open. Bacon.

Not ripe; as, unripe fruit.

Quality or state of being unripe.

Not striped.

Developed in manhood; hence, able to beget; marriageable. [Obs.] Being not of ripe years, not viripotent. Holinshed.

Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. [Obs.] Shak.

A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.

al development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

f facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. "A laudable account of the city of London." Howell.

n accretion of earth. A mineral . . . augments not by grown, but by accretion. Owen. To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.

One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.

Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.