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riolata), which feeds upon the turnip, and often seriously injures it. It is black with a stripe of yellow on each elytron. The name is also applied to several other small insects which are injurious to turnips. See Illust. under Flea-beetle. -- Turnip fly. (Zoöl.) (a) The turnip flea. (b) A two-winged fly (Anthomyia…

To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob. [Obs.] The life out of her body for to twin. Chaucer.

the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol. Underneath the umbrella's o…

To divest of clothing; to strip. [Obs.] Donne.

To deprive of the bark; to decorticate; to strip; as, to unbark a tree. Bacon.

To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches. Shak.

To strip; to flay. [Obs.]

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.

To strip of drapery; to uncover or unveil.

To divest of clothes; to strip.

To deprive of feathers; to strip. [R.]

To strip of a fence; to remove a fence from.

To strip of flowers. [R.] G. Fletcher.

To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.

To strip of gear; to unharness; to throw out of gear.

To strip of glass; to remove the glazing, or glass, from, as a window.

To strip of a gown; to unfrock.

Stripped of a gown; unfrocked.

To divest or strip of hangings; to remove the hangings, as a room.