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See Ridgepole.

The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.

See Life line (a), under Life.

So as to form ridges.

Having a ridge or ridges; rising in a ridge. "Lifted on a ridgy wave." Pope.

Ridicule. [Obs.] Foxe.

ghing matter. [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. Foxe.

One who ridicules.

To make ridiculous; to ridicule. [Obs.] Chapman.

The quality or state of being ridiculous; ridiculousness; also, something ridiculous. [Archaic] Bailey.

Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior. Agricola, discerning that those little targets and unwieldy glaives ill pointed would soon become ridiculous against the thrust and close, commanded three Batavian cohorts . . . to draw up and come to…

ormerly under the government of reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding. Blackstone.

sisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves. Brande & C. There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets. Walpole.

To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights. "The bridegroom . . . abridged his visit." Smollett. She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. Fuller.

One who abridges.

The act abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.

One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks.

Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.

The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.

In an acid manner.