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Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum

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A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something

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A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones

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Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull

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Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength

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A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault

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A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth

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The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf

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A teasing joke

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A single strand of hair.

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A stalk of celery.

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(archaic, literary, humorous) A wife or woman.

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To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.

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To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.

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He always gets ribbed for his outrageous shirts.

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To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

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To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).

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Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).

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Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).

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Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).

The two arch ribs are 652 ft.

I've got a black and blue mark on my ribs from his version of Saturday night fever.

Destiny's little fingers wiggled on Carmen's ribs and she laughed.

She was bruised all over and wondered if her ribs were broken as well.

She brought her elbow around into his ribs and the air escaped his lungs in a startled groan of protest.

She closed her eyes and pushed herself up, her breath catching at the sharp pain in her ribs.

Warmth flooded up her neck and her heart hammered against her ribs.

It had five cast iron arched ribs with a centre span of zoo ft.

Lastly the number of trunk-vertebrae is always nineteen, while there are generally thirteen pairs of ribs.

This pad varies much; it is morphologically the homologue of the pair of basiventral elements which by their lateral extension give origin to the corresponding ribs.

It is of thin membranous consistence, usually obtuse, often bifid, and possesses no central rib or nerve, but has two lateral ones, one on either side; the margins are frequently folded in at the ribs, which thus become placed at the sharp angles.

One of the distinctive features of this family is the presence of small naked callosities on the buttocks; another being a difference in the number of vertebrae and ribs as compared with those of the Simiidae.

Secondary deposits are apt to form also in the liver and they may cause the appearance of a bulging below the ribs on the right side.

The vertebrae, the ribs, and the bones in general, are given to their cattle by the Icelanders, and by the Kamtchatdales to their dogs.

If the table has a pattern engraved upon it the glass will show the same pattern in relief, the most frequent pattern of the kind being either small parallel ridges or larger ribs crossing to form a lozenge pattern.

The vaults are gracefully painted with floreated bands along the ribs and central patterns in each "cell," in rich soft colours on a white plastered ground.

Thus, for a diamond-petal diaper the chisel is carried across the face of the metal horizontally, tracing a number of parallel bands divided at fixed intervals by ribs which are obtained by merely straightening the chisel and striking it a heavy blow.

Heavy ribs of tile-cresting with large terminals are carried along the ridge and the slope of the gable.

Sometimes painting is introduced into these panels and lacquer and metal clasps are added to the ribs.

Their organs of locomotion are the ribs, the number of which is very great, nearly corresponding to that of the vertebrae of the trunk.

When a part of the body has found some projection of the ground which affords it a point of support, the ribs are drawn more closely together, on alternate sides, thereby producing alternate bends of the body.

About onehalf of the total coal (or less) is obtained in the first working; the roof is then allowed to fall, and when the gob is sufficiently consolidated, fresh roads are driven through it to obtain the ribs and pillars left behind by a second or even, in some cases, a third, _!?/i _ ?

In the former the main supporting member or members may be an arch ring or arched ribs, suspension chains or ropes, or a pair of girders, beams or trusses.

Southwark bridge over the Thames, designed by John Rennie with cast iron ribs and erected in 1814-1819, has a centre FIG.

This had two arched ribs formed by the cast iron pipes through which the water passed.

All that needed to be done was to fish the fractured ribs of the high arches, put oval holes in the fishes, and not screw up the bolts too tight.

The arch is formed by two lattice ribs hinged at the abutments.

The lattice girders of the side spans were first rolled into place, so as to project some distance beyond the piers, and then the arch ribs were built out, being partly supported by wire-rope cables from (3) Draw or Bascule Bridges.

Skeleton towers on the piers supported chains attached to the arched ribs at suitable points.

In conformity with these reductions the breastbone of the moas is devoid of any coracoidal facets; there is no trace of a keel, and the number of sternal ribs is reduced to three or even two pairs.

Pleurodont lizards with well-developed limbs; without temporal bony arches; postthoracic ribs united across the abdomen.

Among the ammonites the loss of power to coil the shell is one feature of racial old age, and in others old age is accompanied by closer coiling and loss of surface ornamentation, such as spines, ribs, spirals; while in other forms an arresting of variability precedes extinction.

The right surface of the liver is covered with peritoneum and is in contact with the diaphragm, outside which are the pleura and lower ribs.

Pectinidae.-Shell with radiating ribs; dorsal border with two auriculae.

The dorsal and lumbar vertebrae are very numerous, 28 to 30, of which 21 or 22 bear ribs.

It is formed chiefly of slates, grits and porphyries of the Cambrian and Silurian systems. It consists of five "ribs" converging at the summit, 3560 ft.

Gloxinias, begonias, &c., grow readily from fragments of the leaves cut clean through the thick veins and ribs, and planted edgewise like cuttings.

No shell-eyes, slits in the valves 1-7 corresponding with the ribs of the tegmentum.

Besides the midrib there are two intra-marginal ribs which converge to the apex.

In all the instances already alluded to the leaves have been considered as flat expansions, in which the ribs or veins spread out on the same plane with the stalk.

Although toad-like it is not really related to the toads proper, but belongs to the family Discoglossidae, characterized by a circular, adherent tongue, teeth in the upper jaw and on the palate, short but distinct ribs on the anterior vertebrae, and convex-concave vertebrae.

The neck is long, but not coarse, the ribs are deep, the loin wide and level, the tail set high, and the legs straight and set well outside the carcase.

According to it, he collected the revelations from copies written on flat stones, pieces of leather, ribs of palm-leaves (not palm-leaves themselves), and such-like material, but chiefly " from the breasts of men," i.e.

The first and second vertebrae each have a pair of long, movable ribs.

The cervical and thoracic vertebrae seem to be biconcave; the cervical ribs are much reduced and were apparently still movable; the thoracic ribs are devoid of uncinate processes.

Paired abdominal ribs are doubtful.

The wombat of Tasmania and the islands of Bass's Straits (P. ursinus), and the closely similar but larger P. platyrhinus of the southern portion of the mainland of Australia, belong to this group. On the other hand, in the hairy-nosed wombat (P. latifrons) of Southern Australia, the fur is smooth and silky; the ears are large and more pointed; the muzzle is hairy; the frontal region of the skull is broader than in the other section, with well-marked postorbital processes; and there are thirteen ribs.

The vertebral axis shows a series of broad rings, with distinct neural arches, but no ribs.

The platen was screwed on to the under surface of the spindle; the table or bed had slides underneath which moved in, and not on, ribs as in the older form of press, and was run in and out by means of strips of webbing fastened to each end and passed round a drum or wheel.

He kills his victim by rolling himself round the body till he breaks its ribs, or suffocates it by one irresistible convolution round its throat.