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To deprive of uthority. [Obs.] Selden.

To deprive of shoes. [Obs.] Chambers.

To deprive or clear of flesh. Grew.

t out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting. And none but…

To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources. A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. Motley.

The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.

To deprive of eyes. [R.] W. C. Hazlitt.

To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone. [Obs.] Bailey.

To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer.

To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor. You only expose the follies of men, without arraigning their vices. Dryden.

To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights. Boyle. Expropriate these [bad landlords] as the monks were expropriated by Act of Parliament. M. Arnold.

To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.

To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away. No winter could his laurels fade. Dryden.

To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.

The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil. Simmonds.

To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court. Burrill.

A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.

To deprive; -- with of. [R.] All the better; may This night forestall him of the coming day! Shak.

to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited. [They] had forfeite…

Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control; as, the fumes of passion. South.