ribbed, ppl. a.
(rɪbd)
Also 6 rybbed.
[f. rib n.1 or v.1]
1. a. With qualifying word prefixed: Having ribs of a specified kind or number, or arranged in a certain way.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §75 The .ix. propertyes of an oxe. The fyrste is, to be brode-rybbed. 1601 Holland Pliny xxv. x. II. 231 For otherwise ribbed they be and full of veins, as like as may be to Plantaine. 1602 Marston Antonio's Rev. v. i, I am as gant as leane ribd famine. 1603 Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. i. 123 In thrilling Region of thicke-ribbed Ice. 1684–88 [see flat a. 14]. 1707 Lond. Gaz. No. 4391/4 A bay gelt Horse,..well made and well ribb'd. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Plantago, The three-ribbed mountain⁓plantain. 1828 Sir J. Smith Eng. Flora II. 118 Calyx-leaves..obscurely five-ribbed. 1857 Henfrey Bot. §85 Straight⁓ribbed leaves occur not unfrequently in Dicotyledons. 1874 Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 39 These are either very close-ribbed, or else simply perforated [etc.]. |
b. Having ribs
like something specified.
| 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 178 A Leaf of the like Bigness, but ribbed like our Plantain. |
2. Having ribs or ridges; marked with ribs:
a. Of leaves, plants, shells, etc.
ribbed grass = rib-grass.
| 1742 Shenstone Schoolmistr. 103 Radish..And plantain ribb'd that heals the reaper's wound. 1752 J. Hill Hist. Anim. 145 The ribbed Music-shell. 1784 Twamley Dairying Exemp. 113 Ribwort, ribbed grass. 1796 Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 248 The permanent involucrum.. is egg⁓shaped, compressed, ribbed. 1851 Woodward Mollusca i. 46 Races of Neritina,..with whorls ribbed or keeled. 1861 Bentley Man. Bot. 153 These ribbed leaves have frequently a great resemblance to parallel-veined leaves. 1871 T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 65 The interior of the capsules has a slightly ribbed or striated appearance. |
| Comb. 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 175 Calicles remotely ribbed-angular, not dentato-echinate. |
b. Of knitted or woven fabrics.
| 1756 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1907) XLIII. 277 Smith wore when he went away..blue ribb'd Stockings. 1782 in Ibid. (1859) I. 13/1 A patton [sc. pattern] of White Ribed Stuff for a Wescoat & Briches. 1787 Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 397 It is ribbed longitudinally like a ribbed stocking. 1834–6 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 748/1 Ribbed stocking-frame.., employed for working stripes or ribbed stockings. 1840 Dickens Old C. Shop xlvi, A waistcoat of ribbed black satin. 1882 Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 125/1 Ribbed Stitch.—This stitch is also called Russian Stitch. |
c. In miscellaneous applications.
| 1798 Coleridge Anc. Mar. iv. i, Thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribb'd sea-sand. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 163 The ribbed roofs, which are rich without being gorgeous. 1862 Burton Bk.-hunter 56 Their dwarfish ribbed backs like those of ponderous folios. 1887 Furnivall R. Brunne's Chron. Wace (Rolls) Introd. p. xix, Two manuscripts,..of the old ribbed paper of about the middle of the fourteenth century. |
d. ribbed-nose baboon, the mandrill.
| 1771 Pennant Synop. Quad. 103 Ribbed-Nose B[aboon]. 1862 Kearley Links in Chain 261 The huge Mandrill (Cynocephalus mormon), or ribbed-nose Baboon,..is a native of the western coast of Africa. 1894 Pop. Sci. Monthly XLIV. 516 The ribbed-nose or mandrill baboon. |
3. a. Furnished with ribs.
| 1814 Cary Dante, Inf. x. 74 Nor moved the neck, nor bent his ribbed side. |
b. Of horses: (see
quot. 1831).
| 1831 Youatt Horse 164 Some horses are what is called ribbed home; there is but little space between the last rib and the hip-bone. 1850 Smedley Frank Fairleigh xxi, Rather inclined to be cow-hocked... Not ribbed home. 1861 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe I. 231 The horse was not so well ribbed up as he should be. |
Hence
ˈribbedly adv.| 1886 Ruskin Præterita I. iv. 123 The paper pure white, and ribbedly gritty. |