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A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.

Ribbon grass.

A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.

ered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter. Lingual ribbon. (Zoöl.) See Odontophore.

A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. Goldsmith.

t made or demanded for the procurement of a marriage. -- Marriage favors, knots of white ribbons, or bunches of white flowers, worn at weddings. -- Marriage settlement (Law), a settlement of property in view, and in consideration, of marriage.

The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.

from a type-supply drum to a printing drum. The printing may be done by means of an inked ribbon to print "typewritten" letters, or directly from inked type or a stereotype plate, as in a printing press.

The ribbon fish.

consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed with teeth. Also applied to the radula alone. See Radula.

Of or pertaining to an orange; of the color of an orange; reddish yellow; as, an orange ribbon.

es for pearl oysters. -- Pearl edge, an edge of small loops on the side of some kinds of ribbon; also, a narrow kind of thread edging to be sewed on lace. -- Pearl eye, cataract. [R.] -- Pearl gray, a very pale and delicate blue-gray color. -- Pearl millet, Egyptian millet (Penicillaria spicata). -- Pearl moss. See…

One of many small loops, as of thread, forming an ornamental border, as on a ribbon.

garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons. Pink eye (Med.), a popular name for an epidemic variety of ophthalmia, associated with early and marked redness of the eyeball. -- Pink salt (Chem. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly…

ops made with a pinking iron. Pinking iron. (a) An instrument for scalloping the edges of ribbons, flounces, etc. (b) A sword. [Colloq.]

The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.

An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.

See Ribbon. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

See Ribbon. Riband jasper (Min.), a variety of jasper having stripes of different colors, as red and green.

Ribboned. B. Jonson.