Definition of rib

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Rib (n.) One of the timbers, or bars of iron or steel, that branch outward and upward from the keel, to support the skin or planking, and give shape and strength to the vessel..

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Scansores :: Scansores (n. pl.) An artifical group of birds formerly regarded as an order. They are distributed among several orders by modern ornithologists.
Describing :: Describing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Describ.
Boodle :: Boodle (n.) Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag.
Delawares :: Delawares (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory..
Barratry :: Barratry (n.) The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment.
Ontogeny :: Ontogeny (n.) The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny..
Transferrible :: Transferrible (a.) Capable of being transferred; transferable.
Quince :: Quince (n.) The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves..
Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual..
Address :: Address (v.) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter..
Harlotry :: Harlotry (n.) Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story.
Pequots :: Pequots (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern Connecticut.
Scribbling :: Scribbling (n.) The act or process of carding coarsely.
Advocate :: Advocate (n.) One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.
Abhorrible :: Abhorrible (a.) Detestable.
Malacoderm :: Malacoderm (n.) One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies..
Asternal :: Asternal (a.) Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.
Generatrix :: Generatrix (n.) That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent..
Judge :: "Judge (v. t.) To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about..
Station :: Station (n.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.)..
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