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5. (Mining) (a) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein. (b) An elongated pillar of ore or coal left as a support. Raymond.

6. A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib. [Familiar & Sportive]

How many have we known whose heads have been broken with their own rib.

Bp. Hall.

Chuck rib, a cut of beef immediately in front of the middle rib. See Chuck. -- Fore ribs, a cut of beef immediately in front of the sirloin. -- Middle rib, a cut of beef between the chuck rib and the fore ribs. -- Rib grass. (Bot.) Same as Ribwort.

Rib, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ribbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ribbing.] 1. To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.

2. To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

It were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.

Shak.

To rib land, to leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in plowing.

Rib"ald (?), n./ [OE. ribald, ribaud, F. ribaud, OF. ribald, ribault, LL. ribaldus, of German origin; cf. OHG hrpa prostitute. For the ending -ald cf. E. Herald.] A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow. Spenser. Pope.

Ribald was almost a class name in the feudal system . . . He was his patron's parasite, bulldog, and tool . . . It is not to be wondered at that the word rapidly became a synonym for everything ruffianly and brutal.

Earle.

Rib"ald, a. Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene.

The busy day, Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows.

Shak.

Rib"ald*ish, a. Like a ribald. Bp. Hall.

Rib"ald*rous (?), a. Of a ribald quality. [R.]

Rib"ald*ry (?), n. [OE. ribaldrie, ribaudrie, OF. ribalderie, ribauderie.] The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct.

The ribaldry of his conversation moved &?;stonishment even in that age.

Macaulay.

Rib"an (?), n. See Ribbon. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Rib"and (?), n. See Ribbon.

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

Rib"and, n. (Naut.) See Rib-band. Totten.

Rib"and*ed, a. Ribboned. B. Jonson.

Rib"aud (?), n. A ribald. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

||Ri*bau"de*quin (?), n. [F.] 1. An engine of war used in the Middle ||Ages, consisting of a protected elevated staging on wheels, and armed ||in front with pikes. It was (after the 14th century) furnished with ||small cannon.