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A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.

, who having bought so much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a citadel.

A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.

To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked. Drink disapparels the soul. Junius (1635).

To strip of bark; to bark. [R.] Boyle.

To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud. [R.] Holland.

Stripped of flesh. [Obs.] "Discarnate bones." Glanvill.

To strip; to undress. Shak.

To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.

To strip of a garland. [Poetic] "Thy locks disgarland." Drummond.

Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors.

To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants. Spenser.

To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock. [Scot.]

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.

To disfurnish; to strip. [Obs.] Heywood.

To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly. He distanced the most skillful of his contemporaries. Milner.

To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.