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a. Capable of being bribed. [ 1913 Webster ]

A more bribable class of electors. S. Edwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being circumscribed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That can be described; capable of description. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as detribalization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living.
Syn. -- detribalisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their cultural identity and adopt other customs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A California market fish (Pomancentrus rubicundus) of a deep scarlet color. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of being described. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an indescribable manner; to a degree impossible to desribe; as, indescribably beautiful. [ PJC ]

a. Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. (Math.) of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being inscribable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Quadri- + basic. ] (Chem.) Same as Tetrabasic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene. [ 1913 Webster ]

The busy day,
Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. ribald, ribaud, F. ribaud, OF. ribald, ribault, LL. ribaldus, of German origin; cf. OHG hrīpa prostitute. For the ending -ald cf. E. Herald. ] A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow. Spenser. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a ribald. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of a ribald quality. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ribaldry of his conversation moved &unr_;stonishment even in that age. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ribbon. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ribbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Riband jasper (Min.), a variety of jasper having stripes of different colors, as red and green. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) See Rib-band. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ribboned. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A ribald. [ Obs. ] P. Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A huge bow fixed on the wall of a fortified town for casting javelins. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Filthy; obscene; ribald. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ribaldry. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ribaldry. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A ribald. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Scribe. ] Capable of being written, or of being written upon. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Scribe. ] Skillful in, or fond of, writing. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being subscribed. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. tri- + basic. ] (Chem.) Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monacid base, or their equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic elements on radicals; -- said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Turban. ] A turban. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With hundred turrets like a turribant. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

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