RIBBONS
Noun
ribbons
plural of ribbon
Verb
ribbons
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ribbon
Anagrams
• Brisbon, Robbins, robbins
Source: Wiktionary
RIBBON
Rib"bon, n. Etym: [OE. riban, OF. riban, F. ruban, probably of German
origin; cf. D. ringband collar, necklace, E. ring circle, and band.]
[Written also riband, ribband.]
1. A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for
trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other
decorative purposes.
2. A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails
torn to ribbons.
3. (Shipbuilding)
Definition: Same as Rib-band.
4. pl.
Definition: Driving reins. [Cant] London Athenæum.
5. (Her.)
Definition: A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
6. (Spinning)
Definition: A silver.
Note: The blue ribbon, and The red ribbon, are phrases often used to
designate the British orders of the Garter and of the Bath,
respectively, the badges of which are suspended by ribbons of these
colors. See Blue ribbon, under Blue. Ribbon fish. (Zoöl.) (a) Any
elongated, compressed, ribbon-shaped marine fish of the family
Trachypteridæ, especially the species of the genus Trachypterus, and
the oarfish (Regelecus Banksii) of the North Atlantic, which is
sometimes over twenty feet long. (b) The hairtail, or bladefish. (c)
A small compressed marine fish of the genus Cepola, having a long,
slender, tapering tail. The European species (C. rubescens) is light
red throughout. Called also band fish.
– Ribbon grass (Bot.), a variety of reed canary grass having the
leaves stripped with green and white; -- called also Lady's garters.
See Reed grass, under Reed.
– Ribbon seal (Zoöl.), a North Pacific seal (Histriophoca
fasciata). The adult male is dark brown, conspicuously banded and
striped with yellowish white.
– Ribbon snake (Zoöl.), a common North American snake (Eutainia
saurita). It is conspicuously striped with bright yellow and dark
brown.
– Ribbon Society, a society in Ireland, founded in the early part
of the 19th century in antagonism to the Orangemen. It afterwards
became an organization of tennant farmers banded together to prevent
eviction by landlords. It took its name from the green ribbon worn by
members as a badge.
– Ribborn worm. (Zoöl.) (a) A tapeworm. (b) A nemertean.
Rib"bon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ribboned; p. pr. & vb. n. Ribboning.]
Definition: To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes
resembling ribbons.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition