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To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

HAving ripple marks.

A small ripple.

To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame. [R.] Dr. H. More.

the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden.

Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." Longfellow.

Lameness. [R.] Johnson.

A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.

Weak or rare. [Obs.]

A grasp; a gripe. [Obs.] Spenser.

The quality of being gripple. [Obs.]

contribution box. Yet since his neighbors give, the churl unlocks, Damning the poor, his tripple-bolted box. J. Warton.

A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.

One who is lame; a cripple. [Obs.] Thou knowest how lame a creeple this world is. Donne.

Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [R.] Mrs. Trollope.

Curled with the ripple of the water. [Poetic] You numphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . . Leave jour crisp channels. Shak.

To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. Seas would be pools without the brushing air To curl the waves. Dryden.

Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.

g.] -- To cut a feather. (a) (Naut.) To make the water foam in moving; in allusion to the ripple which a ship throws off from her bows. (b) To make one's self conspicuous.[Colloq.] -- To show the white feather, to betray cowardice, -- a white feather in the tail of a cock being considered an indication that he is not o…

To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.