RIDGE, n. [L. rugo.] 1. The back or top of the back.2. A long or continued range of hills or mountains; or the upper part of such a range. We say, a long ridge of hills, or the highest ridge.3. A steep elevation, eminence or protuberance.Part rise in crystal wall, or ridge direct.4. A long rising land, or a strip of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows. Ps. 65.5. The top of the roof of a building.6. Any long elevation of land.7. Ridges of a horse's mouth, are wrinkles or risings of flesh in the roof of the mouth.RIDGE, v.t. 1. To form a ridge; as bristles that ridge the back of a boar.2. In tillage, to form into ridges with the plow. The farmers in Connecticut ridge their land for maize, leaving a balk between two ridges.3. To wrinkle.
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