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adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.

One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.

A small stream. [Obs.] "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed.

The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required such stripping. Mrs. Gaskell.

Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex.

Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.

Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature. "The subscriptive part." Richardson. -- Sub*scrip"tive*ly, adv.

Containing a third, or one part to three. Bp. Wilkins.

Expressed by the cube root; -- said especially of ratios. Subtriplicate ratio, the ratio of the cube root; thus, the subtriplicate ratio of a to b is cube roota to cube rootb, or cube roota/b.

Same as Sudoriferous.

Superscription. [Obs.] "I will overglance the superscript." Shak.

ng else; specifically, an address on a letter, envelope, or the like. Holland. The superscription of his accusation was written over, The King of the Jews. Mark xv. 26.

mall species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium).

of the same words as the original; a written copy. The decalogue of Moses was but a transcript. South.

r process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.

Done as from a copy; having the style or appearance of a transcription. [R.] -- Tran*scrip"tive*ly, adv. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

An old game played with dice. [Obs.] Shak.

o move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5. This horse anon began to trip and dance. Chaucer. Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe. Milton. She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not time to take a steady sight. Dryden.

A tilt hammer.

A palmitate derived from three molecules of palmitic acid.