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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ripe \Ripe\, verb (used without an object) [AS. r[=i]pian.] To ripen; to grow ripe. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ripe \Ripe\, verb (used with an object) To mature; to ripen. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ripe \Ripe\ (r[imac]p), noun [L. ripa.] The bank of a river. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ripe \Ripe\ (r[imac]p), adjective [Compar. {Riper} (r[imac]p"[~e]r); superl. {Ripest}.] [AS. r[=i]pe; akin to OS. r[=i]pi, D. rijp, G. rief, OHG. r[=i]ft; cf. AS. r[=i]p harvest, r[=i]pan to reap. Cf. {Reap}.]
1. Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap. --Milton.
2. Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
3. Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate. ''Ripe courage.'' --Chaucer.
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one. --Shak.
4. Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
5. Ready for action or effect; prepared.
While things were just ripe for a war. --Addison.
I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies. --Burke.
6. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
Those happy smilets, That played on her ripe lip. --Shak.
7. Intoxicated. [Obs.] ''Reeling ripe.'' --Shak.
Syn: Mature; complete; finished. See {Mature}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ripe
adjective
1: fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodies mature wines" [syn: {mature}] [ant: {green}]
2: fully prepared or eager; "the colonists were ripe for revolution" [syn: {ripe(p)}]
3: most suitable or right for a particular purpose; "a good time to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act"; "the time is ripe for great sociological changes" [syn: {good}, {right}]
4: at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge; "a ripe mind"
5: far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90" [syn: {advanced}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
141 Moby Thesaurus words for "ripe": accomplished, adult, age, aged, all ready, all set, appropriate, apt, archetypical, armed, armed and ready, auspicious, befitting, blase, booted and spurred, briefed, classic, coached, cocked, complete, consummate, convenient, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, dependable, develop, developed, eager, enthusiastic, entire, equipped, exemplary, expedient, experienced, expert, familiarized, favorable, felicitous, finished, fit, fitting, fortunate, full, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, full-scale, fully developed, global, good and ready, groomed, grow, grow up, grown, grown-up, happy, ideal, in arms, in battle array, in full bloom, in readiness, in the saddle, informed, intact, knowing, loaded, loaded for bear, lucky, marriageable, masterful, masterly, maturate, maturated, mature, matured, meet, mellow, mellowed, mobilized, model, not born yesterday, nubile, of age, of marriageable age, old, on the mark, opportune, overdue, perfected, planned, polished, practiced, prearranged, prepared, prepared and ready, prepped, primed, proficient, proper, propitious, provided, providential, psyched up, qualified, quintessential, ready, ready for anything, refined, reliable, right, ripen, ripened, sagacious, sage, seasonable, seasoned, set, solid, sophisticated, sortable, suitable, tempered, timely, total, tried, tried and true, unabbreviated, uncut, undiminished, unexpurgated, up in arms, veteran, vigilant, virtuosic, well-prepared, well-timed, whole, wise, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
RIPE {Reseaux IP Europeens}
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
RIPE Reseaux IP Europeenne (Europenet)
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