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Marked or variegated with stripes.

A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string. Shak. Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string. Prior.…

See Stripping, 2. Smollett.

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

consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle.

A stout silk having satin stripes, -- used for furniture.

One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.

ves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.

ark bed. -- Tan pickle, the liquor used in tanning leather. -- Tan spud, a spud used in stripping bark for tan from trees. -- Tan stove. See Bark stove, under Bark. -- Tan vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.

o demolish violently; to pull or pluck down. -- To tear off, to pull off by violence; to strip. -- To tear out, to pull or draw out by violence; as, to tear out the eyes. -- To tear up, to rip up; to remove from a fixed state by violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the foundation of government or order.…

A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.

To divest or strip one's self of; to put off. There the snake throws her enameled skin. Shak.

n or cotton fabric, of which ticks for beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken.

ern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.

wk moth (Sphinx, or Phlegethontius, Carolina). It is dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of Hawk moth.

A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.

le, a scale for weighing in which the fulcra of the levers or beams are strained wires or strips acting by torsion.

A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes. -- worn by kings, consuls, and augurs. Dr. W. Smith.

In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

The beautiful rose-colored striped wood of a Brazilian tree (Physocalymna floribunda), much used by cabinetmakers for inlaying. Queensland tulipwood, the variegated wood of an Australian sapindaceous tree (Harpullia pendula). J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).