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finement; imprisonment. What pease will be given To us enslaved, but custody severe, And stripes and arbitrary punishment Milton.

learning to walk; to move slowly. [Obs.] No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip. Drayton.

A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.

th others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhytmically. Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance. Wiher. Good shepherd, what fair swain is this Which dances with your dauther Shak.

The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi.

The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

nished the course of life; dead; deceased. "Defunct organs." Shak. The boar, defunct, lay tripped up, near. Byron.

To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc. [R.]

higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank' to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer. Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. Palfrey.

To strip off the bark; to peel. [Obs.] Ash.

The act of stripping off the bark. [Obs.] Ash.

To clear or strip of wood (by cutting down trees). [R.] Fuller.

deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.

The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.

To strip of hair; to husk. Venner.

The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet

To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage. On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller.

To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A stripping or plundering; spoliation. Bailey.