Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone.
Holland.
Ridg"el (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Ridgelling.
Ridge"let (?), n. A little ridge.
Ridge"ling (?), n. [Prov. E. riggilt, riggot, ananimal half castrated,
a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig, a barrow
hog, rigler a cock half castrated.] (Zoöl.) A half-castrated male
animal.
{ Ridge"piece` (?), Ridge"plate` (?), } n. See Ridgepole.
Ridge"pole` (?), n. (Arch.) The timber forming the ridge of a roof,
into which the rafters are secured.
Ridge"rope` (?), n. (Naut.) See Life line (a), under Life.
Ridg"ing*ly (?), adv. So as to form ridges.
Ridg"y (?), a. Having a ridge or ridges; rising in a ridge. "Lifted on
a ridgy wave." Pope.
Rid"i*cle (?), n. Ridicule. [Obs.] Foxe.
Rid"i*cule (?), n. [F. ridicule, L. ridiculum a jest, fr. ridiculus.
See Ridiculous.] 1. An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a
laughing matter.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made
him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
Buckle.
To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule.
Foxe.
2. Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter
with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes
contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of
laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
We have in great measure restricted the meaning of ridicule, which
would properly extend over whole region of the ridiculous, -- the
laughable, -- and we have narrowed it so that in common usage it
mostly corresponds to "derision", which does indeed involve
personal and offensive feelings.
Hare.
Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and
shamed by ridicule alone.
Pope.