Fingerprint ridging falls into one of three broad patterns: arches, loops, or whorls.

He relies upon ridging, and the proper disposition of open furrows, in the old Greek way.

He is constantly mining, and ridging it up.

Crews sought to construct fire lines by hand in the steep, rugged terrain ridging the river, Christensen said.

Mrs. Deford's lips twisted in an up-curling movement and her eyebrows lifted, ridging her forehead in fine furrows.

When he turned, Vona was sitting in a chair, trembling, tears in her eyes, apprehension ridging her face.

Before Frontinus sent me home in a builder's waggon with a load of ridging tiles, he managed to answer them.

She clutched at Achaeos so desperately that she could feel the hard line ridging his side where her stitches still held.

The particular jet stream you get from La Niña results in this high pressure ridging area just weat of the United States.

In some sections, however, where the land is flat and full of water, ridging seems necessary if the land cannot be drained.

There are occasional fields of sainfoin and of turnips; but these latter are small, and no ridging or hurdling is yet practised.

Thus, after loss of the thyroid, the ridging effect characteristic of senility can be produced in one young as measured by his years.

He even endeavored to force a smile but it was hardly more than a ridging of his cheek muscles under his bristly beard.

They can be kept under partial control by use of a spring-tooth harrow, the points being made narrow so that no ridging will occur.

But the great fierce current, ridging the middle of the brown lake as it followed the tide out to the ocean, frightened her a little.

Ridging the land tends to lessen the amount of moisture in the soil because it increases the evaporating surface.