ridge

RIDGE, noun [Latin 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. Psalms 65:10. 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, verb transitive 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.