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A malvaceous tree (Hoheria populnea) of New Zealand, the bark of which is used for cordage.

A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.

A sort of stringed instrument; a rebec. [Obs.] Nares.

small threestringed viol; a rebec. Moore (Encyc. of Music). All can be play on gittern or ribible. Chaucer.

Having no ribs.

To beat soundly. [Slang]

A species of plantain (Plantago lanceolata) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also rib grass, ripple grass, ribwort plantain.

Detestable. [R.]

Capable of being ascribed; attributable.

To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author. The finest [speech] that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. Addison.

Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it. Abp. Tillotson. The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.…

The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.

Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.

In an attributive manner.

A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat. [Eng.] Southey.

To dribble upon.

An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.

To scribble over. "Bescribbled with impertinences." Milton.

Capable of being bribed. A more bribable class of electors. S. Edwards.