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The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.

The maturing or ripening of fruit. [R.] Martyn.

The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

A species of apple that ripens very early. Bacon.

Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.

Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth.

A nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad (Steatornis Caripensis, or S. steatornis); -- called also oilbird.

ed at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large dark- colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.

rovided with flues for the conducting of heat, to hasten the growth of fruit trees or the ripening of fruit. -- Hot well (Condensing Engines), a receptacle for the hot water drawn from the condenser by the air pump. This water is returned to the boiler, being drawn from the hot well by the feed pump. -- In hot water…

om the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.

Growing under ground; remaining under ground; ripening its fruit under ground. [Written also hypogæous.]

The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness. When the world has outgrown its intellectual immaturity. Caird.

Imperfectly digested, matured, or ripened. [Obs.] Bacon.

The state of being undigested; unripeness; immaturity. [Obs.] Bacon.

e from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested. In choice of committees for ripening business for the counsel, it is better indifferent persons than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides. Bacon. Indifferent tissue (Anat.), the primitive, embryonic, undifferentiated tiss…

Not ripened or suppurated; -- said of an abscess or its contents.

To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure. Johnson.

A variety of pear which ripens early.

To harden, as corn in ripening. [Obs.] Carew.

To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.