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BAY RIDGE(finance)
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ridge(1)(dictionary)
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ridge(dictionary)
Ridge(medicine)
pharyngeal ridge(medicine)
superciliary ridge(medicine)

JOCALIA (law) and ridge(2) (iou)


JOCALIA (law)


JOCALIA. Jewels; this term was formerly more properly applied to those ornaments which women, although married, call their own. When these jocalia ornaments which women, although married, call their own. When these jocalia are not suitable to her degree, they are assets for the payment of debts. 1 are not suitable to her degree, they are assets for the payment of debts. 1 Roll. Ab. 911. Vide Paraphernalia. Roll. Ab. 911. Vide Paraphernalia.

ridge(2) (iou)



ridge noun1.

The back or spine of a human or animal. Long rare or obsolete. OE.
The line or edge formed, spec. on a roof, by the junction of two surfaces sloping upwards towards each Other; the long and narrow crest or top of anything. OE.
alveolar ridge, brow ridge, milk ridge, etc.
Harper's Magazine I made out the..ridge of the back of a tremendous old bull. V. Sackville-West Anquetil went up..the sloping tiles. Cautiously he got astride the ridge.
A long and narrow hilltop, mountain range, or watershed; a range or chain of hills or mountains; a line or reef of rocks. OE.
Gibbon A ridge of hills, rising from the Danube, and called the Carpathian mountains. G. Sayer The Malvern Hills consist of a single ridge about ten miles long.
b. Meteorology. An elongated region of high barometric pressure. L19.
a. Agriculture. A raised strip of arable land, usu. one of a series, separated by furrows, into which a field is divided; Hist. this used as a measure of land. ME.
b. Horticulture. A raised hotbed on which cucumbers, melons, etc., are planted. E18.
A narrow elevation or raised band running along or across a surface; a raised line or strip of something. LME.
C. Mungoshi The grandfather carefully pinched..the ridge of flesh just above the bridge of his nose.
b. = BAR noun1 7. E18.
c. Any of the many raised lines on the skin esp. noticeable on the fingers, the palm of the hand, and the sole of the foot. M19.
E. Wallace Line for line, ridge for ridge..it is Millburgh's thumbprint.
Comb.: ridgeback (an animal of) a breed of dog having a short light-brown coat and a ridge of hair along the middle of the back, growing in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat; also more fully Rhodesian ridgeback; ridge-band (now dial.) = backband s.v. BACK-; ridge-bone (now rare or obsolete) the spine, the backbone; ridge cucumber a variety of cucumber which is grown outside in temperate climates, freq. on ridges of soil (cf. sense 4b above) and is shorter than the greenhouse variety; ridge-piece a horizontal beam along the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are fastened; ridge-pole (a) the horizontal pole of a ridge tent; (b) = ridge-piece above; ridge runner US slang a southern mountain farmer, a hillbilly; ridge stone (a) a curbstone for a well; (b) a coping-stone for the ridge of a house; ridge tent a tent having a central ridge supported by a pole or frame at each end; ridge-tile a (freq. decorative) tile of semicircular or curved section covering the ridge and sometimes the hips of a roof; ridge-tree = ridge-piece above.
ridgewise adverb in the manner or form of a ridge E18.