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Not striped.

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.

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.

To thrive or grow; to ripen. [Prov. Eng.] Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more. Tusser.

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.

z, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening.

cle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.

A narrow stripe of purple worn by the equites on each side of the tunic as a sign of rank.

A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.

A fabaceous tree of Brazil (Centrolobium robustum) having handsomely striped wood; --called also zebrawood.

A small marine fish of the family Atherinidæ, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides.

Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. Wharton.