Ripe, vb. 1) tr. to make ripe, to mature: “no sun to r. the bloom,” John II, 472. “to r. his growing fortunes,” H4B IV, 1, 13.
2) to grow ripe, to be matured: “so I, being young, till now r. not to reason,” Mids. II, 2, 118. “stay the very --ing of the time,” Merch. II, 8, 40. “we r. and r.” As II, 7, 26.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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