v. t. To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Same as Countertrippant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. krüppel, Dan. kröbling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. creópan to creep. See Creep. ] One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Local. U. S. ] (a) Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets; bog.

The flats or cripple land lying between high- and low-water lines, and over which the waters of the stream ordinarily come and go. Pennsylvania Law Reports.

(b) A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Lame; halting. [ R. ] “The cripple, tardy-gaited night.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crippled p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling ] 1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had crippled the joints of the noble child. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled. [ 1913 Webster ]

More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. “The crippled crone.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lameness. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [ R. ] Mrs. Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A falling in drops, or the sound so made. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dripping pan, a pan for receiving the fat which drips from meat in roasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Drip, cf. Dribble. ] Weak or rare. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. persistently dripping even when shut; as, a drippy faucet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. fripier, fr. friper to rumple, fumble, waste. ] One who deals in frippery or in old clothes. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fripper. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. friperie, fr. fruper. See Fripper. ] 1. Coast-off clothes. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A place where old clothes are sold. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The trade or traffic in old clothes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Trifling; contemptible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Med.) The influenza or epidemic catarrh. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, grips or seizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. In printing presses, the fingers or nippers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A grasp; a gripe. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Dim. fr. gripe. ] Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being gripple. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. Rip a basket, or Riparian. ] (O.E. Law) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

But what's the action we are for now ?
Robbing a ripper of his fish. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc. [ Slang. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials. [ Polit. Cant, U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Aeronautics) same as Rip cord. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Aeronautics) A long patch, on a balloon, to be ripped off, by the rip cord, at landing, in order to allow the immediate escape of gas and instant deflation of the bag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. same as Ripping panel. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From Rip, v. ] An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to scratch or tear. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Rippled p. pr. & vb. n. Rippling ] [ Cf. Rimple, Rumple. ] 1. To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ripple grass. (Bot.) See Ribwort. --
Ripple marks, a system of parallel ridges on sand, produced by wind, by the current of a steam, or by the agitation of wind waves; also (Geol.), a system of parallel ridges on the surface of a sandstone stratum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having ripple marks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small ripple. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a rippling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having ripples; as, ripply water; hence, resembling the sound of rippling water; as, ripply laughter; a ripply cove. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The contents of a scrip, or wallet. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Agric.) A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. (Agric.) A harvesting machine that strips the seed from the stalks of grain plants. [ PJC ]

4. a solvent or chemical solution used to remove coatings of paint, varnish, lacquer, etc. prior to refinishing a surface. [ PJC ]

5. a person (usually a woman) who strips off her clothes as an entertainment performance; one who does a strip-tease; -- also called an ecdysiast, exotic dancer, or strip-teaser. [ PJC ]

n. [ Dim. of strip. ] A small stream. [ Obs. ] “A little brook or strippet.” Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who strips. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never were cows that required such stripping. Mrs. Gaskell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) See Tripping, a., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An excursionist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mach.) A cam, wiper, or projecting piece which strikes another piece repeatedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Act of one who, or that which, trips. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A light dance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Other trippings to be trod of lighter toes. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tripping line (Naut.), a small rope attached to the topgallant or royal yard, used to trip the yard, and in lowering it to the deck; also, a line used in letting go the anchor. Luce. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sing, and dance it trippingly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speak the speech . . . trippingly on the tongue. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]