RIPE, a.
1. Brought to perfection in growth or to the best state mature fit for use as ripe fruit ripe corn.
2. Advanced to perfection matured as ripe judgment, or ripe in judgment.
3. Finished consummate as a ripe scholar.
4. Brought to the point of taking effect matured ready prepared as things just ripe for war.
5. Fully qualified by improvement prepared as a student ripe for the university a saint ripe for heaven.
6. Resembling the ripeness of fruit as a ripe lip.
7. Complete proper for use.
When time is ripe.
8. Maturated suppurated as an abscess or tumor.
RIPE, To ripen to grow ripe to be matured. Not used. See Ripen.
RIPE, To mature to ripen. Not used.
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