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A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.

Of or pertaining to the Ulotrichi. -- n.

The division of mankind which embraces the races having woolly or crispy hair. Cf. Leiotrichi.

Having woolly or crispy hair; -- opposed to leiotrichous.

To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked. I. Watts. [We] do groan being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon. 2 Cor. v. 4.

Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron.

Clothes worn under others, especially those worn next the skin for warmth.

Same as Underclothes.

A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden.

A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs.

Same as Parkesine.

One versed or engaged in xylotomy.

Capable of boring or cutting wood; -- said of many insects.

Art of preparing sections (transverse, tangential, or radial) of wood, esp. by means of a microtome, for microscopic examination.

rine bivalves closely allied to Teredo, and equally destructive to timber. One species (Xylotrya fimbriata) is very common on the Atlantic coast of the United States.

y his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan. Zealots for the one [tradition] were in hostile array against zealots for the other. Sir J. Stephen. In Ayrshire, Clydesdale, Nithisdale, Annandale, every parish was visited by these turbulent zealots. Macaulay.

Like, or suitable to, a zealot; ardently zealous. [R.] Strype.

The character or conduct of a zealot; zealotry.

A zealot. [Obs.] Howell.

The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause. Enthusiasm, visionariness, seems the tendency of the German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of the French. Coleridge.