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Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.

n motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. [Obs.] "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser. The mild air, with season moderate, Gently attempered, and disposed eo well, That still it breathed foorth sweet spirit. Spenser.

Deprived of the spleen.

tians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eues. Pope.

Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition. "How came such multitudes of our nation . . . to be sponged of their plate and their money" South.

To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.

To deprive of force or vigor; to disable. The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions. Fuller. The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. Locke.

To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.

To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark. And strippen her out of her rude array.…

To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid. The fumes of drink discompose and stupefy the brain. South.

To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.

Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed. The sunken glen whose sunless shrubs must weep. Byron.

Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed. Beau. & Fl.

ember of a club. Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent. Bp. Sanderson.

; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.

To deprive of speech or the power of speech, or of distinct articulation.

claiming as heir to his grandfather's grandfather, to recover lands of which he had been deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor's death. Mozley & W.

A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.

Destitute or deprived of an udder.