(a) Of grain, fruit, seed, a field, etc.: ready for harvest, eating, or reproduction; ripe, mature; also fig.; of grass: ready for cutting; ~ corn, the harvest; daies of ~ corn, time of harvest; til to ~ corn, until harvest time; putten to the ~ corn, to prepare a harvest for yourself; (b) of honey, wine, oil: matured to the state of being ready for use; (c) fig. of wickedness: full-blown; of grief: entire, complete; (d) as noun: the state or quality of being ripe, ripeness; pl. ripen, ripe fruits.

(a) Of persons: adult, physically mature; of marriageable age; to sone ~, precocious; (b) of birds: fully developed, fledged.

(a) Mature in judgment or wisdom, knowledgeable, fully informed; of one's heart, discretion, etc.: mature, stable, prudent; (b) of words, counsel, etc.: fully deliberated, properly considered; ~ communicacioun, fruitful communication; (c) full, rich, deep.

(a) Timely; (b) appropriate; (c) ready (for sth.); ready (to do or undergo sth.); flight ~, ready to fly.

Med. Of pustules, apostemes, etc.: ready to break, ready to be lanced; of pus: ready for treatment; of a dead body: putrefying.