These are the meanings of the letters IIDRGE when you unscramble them.
- Dirge (a.)
A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.
- Gride (e. i.)
To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword.
- Ridge (n.)
A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.
- Ridge (n.)
A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.
- Ridge (n.)
The back, or top of the back; a crest.
- Ridge (n.)
The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
- Ridge (n.)
The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.
- Ridge (v. t.)
To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
- Ridge (v. t.)
To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
- Ridge (v. t.)
To wrinkle.
- Rigid (a.)
Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
- Rigid (a.)
Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.