An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Teut. rep-en, stringere semen lini. Germ. riffel-n, to hatchell flax.

Ripplin-caimb, s. A flax-comb, S.
Kelly.

To RIPPLE, v. n. To drizzle, S.

Isl. hrafl in sniohrafl, nix recens et rara.

RIPPLES, RIPPLIS, s. pl.
1. A weakness in the back and reins, S.
Roull.

Fr. ribauld, rabauld, rei venereae intentus ut enervetur.

2. The King's evil, improperly, Bord.
Gl. Complaynt.

RISE, s. A coarse kind of grass.
V. [Reyss].
Douglas.

RISE, RYS, RICE, RYSS, s.
1. A small twig, S.
Chr. Kirk.
2. In pl. brushwood, S.
Dunbar.

Stake and rice,
1. Stakes driven into the earth, and thin boughs nailed across, S.
Acts Ja. II.
2. A partition-wall in a cottage, S.
Ruddiman.