From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ribbon \Rib"bon\, n. [OE. riban, OF. riban, F. ruban, probably
of German origin; cf. D. ringband collar, necklace, E. ring
circle, and band.] [Written also {riband}, {ribband}.]
1. A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used
for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges,
and other decorative purposes.
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2. A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon;
sails torn to ribbons.
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3. (Shipbuilding) Same as {Rib-band}.
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4. pl. Driving reins. [Cant] --London Athenaeum.
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5. (Her.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth
as wide.
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6. (Spinning) A silver.
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Note: The blue ribbon, and The red ribbon, are phrases often
used to designate the British orders of the Garter and
of the Bath, respectively, the badges of which are
suspended by ribbons of these colors. See {Blue
ribbon}, under {Blue}.
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{Ribbon fish}. (Zool.)
(a) Any elongated, compressed, ribbon-shaped marine fish
of the family {Trachypteridae}, especially the species
of the genus {Trachypterus}, and the oarfish
({Regelecus Banksii}) of the North Atlantic, which is
sometimes over twenty feet long.
(b) The hairtail, or bladefish.
(c) A small compressed marine fish of the genus {Cepola},
having a long, slender, tapering tail. The European
species ({Cepola rubescens}) is light red throughout.
Called also {band fish}.
{Ribbon grass} (Bot.), a variety of reed canary grass having
the leaves stripped with green and white; -- called also
{Lady's garters}. See {Reed grass}, under {Reed}.
{Ribbon seal} (Zool.), a North Pacific seal ({Histriophoca
fasciata}). The adult male is dark brown, conspicuously
banded and striped with yellowish white.
{Ribbon snake} (Zool.), a common North American snake
({Eutainia saurita}). It is conspicuously striped with
bright yellow and dark brown.
{Ribbon Society}, a society in Ireland, founded in the early
part of the 19th century in antagonism to the Orangemen.
It afterwards became an organization of tennant farmers
banded together to prevent eviction by landlords. It took
its name from the green ribbon worn by members as a badge.
{Ribborn worm}. (Zool.)
(a) A tapeworm.
(b) A nemertean.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ribbon \Rib"bon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ribboned}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Ribboning}.]
To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes
resembling ribbons.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ribbon
n 1: any long object resembling a thin line; "a mere ribbon of
land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the
road was a grey thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed upward"
[syn: {ribbon}, {thread}]
2: an award for winning a championship or commemorating some
other event [syn: {decoration}, {laurel wreath}, {medal},
{medallion}, {palm}, {ribbon}]
3: a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper
with a typewriter [syn: {ribbon}, {typewriter ribbon}]
4: notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for
trimming
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