Word Finder - ripened

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To grow ripe; to become mature (said of grain, fruit, flowers etc.)

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Grapes ripen in the sun.

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To approach or come to perfection.

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To cause to mature; to make ripe

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The warm sun ripened the corn.

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To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection

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ripen the judgment

Strawberries and cucumbers have been ripened in a forcing frame.

The flowers appear early in spring, and the fruit is ripened about the end of September.

The fruit of the peach is produced on the ripened shoots of the preceding year.

Large quantities of fruits - apples, pears, quinces, peaches, nectarines, apricots, grapes and melons - were exported by special trains to central Europe, where the Turkestan crop was received a short time before the south European supplies ripened.

Many seeds will grow freely if sown in a partially ripened state; but as a general rule seeds have to be kept for some weeks or months in store, and hence they should be thoroughly ripened before being gathered.

After they have ripened in connexion with the parent bulb, the offsets are taken off, stored in appropriate places, and at the proper season planted out in nursery beds.

It is a common mode of propagating vines, the eyes being in this case cut from the ripened leafless wood.

Shoots of peaches, nectarines and morello cherries are "laid in," that is, placed in between fruiting shoots where there is the space to be ripened for next year's crop.

They are made from the milk of the large flocks of the plateau of Larzac, and the choicest are ripened in the even temperature of the caves in the cliff which overhangs Roquefort.

Meanwhile Hobbes had his thoughts too full of the political theory which the events of the last years had ripened within him to settle, even in Paris, to the orderly composition of his works.

In 1765 the Thrales became acquainted with Johnson, and the acquaintance ripened fast into friendship. They were astonished and delighted by the brilliancy of his conversation.

With public opinion thus ripened by alternate defeat and victory, President Lincoln, on the 22nd of September 1862, issued his preliminary proclamation of emancipation, giving notice that on the 1st of January 1863, "all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward and for ever free."

In 1799, under the walls of Seringapatam, began his intimacy with Colonel ArthurWellesley, which in a short time ripened into a life-long friendship. In the course of the same year he acted as first secretary to the commission appointed to settle the Mysore government, and before its close he was appointed by Lord Wellesley to proceed as envoy to the court of Persia for the purpose of counteracting the policy of the French by inducing that country to form a British alliance.

It is a fact of first-rate magnitude that in the 15th century customary relations on one hand, the power of government on the other, ripened, as it were, to that extent that the judges of the king began to take cognizance of the relations of the peasants to their lords.

Reaching Pavia, he began negotiations for peace with Alexander, which ripened into the treaty of Venice in August 1177, and at the same time a truce with the Lombard league was arranged for six years.

The peach is believed to have been tender, and to have ripened its fruit with difficulty, when first introduced into Greece; so that (as Darwin observes) in travelling northward during two thousand years it must have become much hardier.

Formerly wheat was grown chiefly in the region of long rainless summers, and the ripened grain was thrown upon uncovered earth floors and threshed by horses driven about over the straw, but this antiquated process was not suited to the climate and enterprise of the more southern provinces, and the modern threshing-machine has been introduced.

The war between the Transvaal republic and the natives has had this further effect, it rapidly ripened all South African policy....

With all his hatred for the book-man in politics, Burke owed much of his own distinction to that generous richness and breadth of judgment which had been ripened in him by literature and his practice in it.

He had an intimate acquaintance and sympathy with English institutions, and two of his published works - an address, Biographie de Lord Erskine (1866), and Etude sur l'acte du 5 avril 1873 pour l'etablissement d'une cour supreme de justice en Angleterre (1874) - deal with English questions; he also gave a fresh and highly important direction to French policy by the understanding with Russia, which was declared to the world by the visit of the French fleet to Cronstadt in 1891, and which subsequently ripened into a formal treaty of alliance.

He soon found his way into the fast political society of London, and at the club at Goosetrees renewed an acquaintance begun at Cambridge with Pitt, which ripened into a friendship of the closest kind.

Female flowers arranged, two to three together on scale-like structures formed by the union of bracts, in catkins; ovary two-celled; fruit small, flattened, protected between the ripened scales of the catkin.

These hairs, during the upward growth of the style, come into contact with the already ripened pollen, and carry it up along with them, ready to be applied by insects to the mature stigma of other flowers.

Between Scipio (P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus the younger), the future conqueror of Carthage, and himself a friendship soon sprang up, which ripened into a lifelong intimacy, and was of inestimable service to him throughout his career.

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As a result most ripened cheeses, like Cheddar and Swiss, contain about 95% less lactose than whole milk.

Serve this wine chilled with fresh pate, fresh fruit for dessert or ripened soft cheeses.

Hawes Matured Wensleydale takes on the appearance of a truly traditionally ripened cheese.

Well basically they are fully ripened plums which have been dried to remove most of the water.

Further negotiations ripened into the peace of Constance signed on the 25th of June 1183, which granted almost all the demands of the cities, and left only a shadowy authority to the emperor (see Italy).

There was also an early attempt to federate the South African colonies, and an act was passed for that purpose (South African Act 1877), but it expired on the 18th of August 1882, without having been brought into effect by the sovereign in council; in 1908, however, the Closer Union movement (see Sout13 Africa) ripened, and in 1909 a federating Act was successfully passed.

Another favourite haunt of mine was the orchard, where the fruit ripened early in July.

They were a real cereal fruit which I ripened, and they had to my senses a fragrance like that of other noble fruits, which I kept in as long as possible by wrapping them in cloths.

When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall?

By evening this thought had ripened in every soul.

Bright red, glossy, Bittersweet berries have ripened on a straggly plant growing by a broken wall at the roadside.

So long as an evil deed has not ripened, the fool thinks it as sweet as honey.

Tangy fruits ripened by Spanish sunrays, make my tastebuds Flamenco shouting pip pip ole !

Granted, not all the fruit is sold in a ripened state, but a lot of the stuff on the shelf will already have ripened.

For a new take on a mood lipstick, check out Gloss Blossom; an innovative lip gloss that changes color intensity, matching your natural ripened lip color within minutes of application.

For a just-bitten ripened pout, lip stains are certainly hard to beat.

Despite the lack of color variety, most women find their naturally ripened lips to be just as sexy as colored lipsticks.

Imagine fruit ripened to perfection, imported cheeses, vintage wines, extravagant desserts, maybe even fresh seafood, artfully arranged in a basket and given to you.

Tomatoes ripened in this way will not have the same rich flavor as tomatoes that ripen on the bush.

Since the male's sperm can live up to a week after delivery, breeding as soon as ovulation begins increases the chance that each ripened egg will become fertilized.

Increase by seeds, root-cuttings, layers, or cuttings of the ripened shoots, rooted under glass in the autumn.

The seedlings raised from English ripened fruits may give us fine varieties, as seedlings vary greatly in size and color of flower.

As soon as thoroughly ripened they should be sown in pans under glass, for they soon lose their vitality.

The plant needs good soil and a warm place, and is increased by seeds, or cuttings of the ripened shoots rooted under glass.

Meconopsis Paniculata - A beautiful Himalayan plant with much-cut foliage and panicles of bright yellow flowers, which come true from the seed ripened sparingly in fine seasons.