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To strip of harness; to loose from harness or gear; as, to unharness horses or oxen. Cowper.

To strip or deprive of hoops; to take away the hoops of.

To strip of a mask or disguise; to lay open; to expose.

Thoroughly stripped; pillaged. [Obs.] Shak.

To strip of plumes or feathers; hence, to humiliate.

To strip of rigging; as, to unrig a ship. Totten.

To strip off the roof or covering of, as a house. Shak.

Stripped of a roof, or similar covering. Broken carriages, dead horses, unroofed cottages, all indicated the movements. Sir W. Scott.

To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse.

To strip the shale, or husk, from; to uncover. [Obs.] I will not unshale the jest before it be ripe. Marston.

To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch.

Nonstriated; unstriped.

The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively. The valley of the shadow of death. Ps. xxiii. 4. Sw…

the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely. Aye undiscreet, and changing as a vane. Chaucer.

essels. Vasomotor center, the chief dominating or general center which supplies all the unstriped muscles of the arterial system with motor nerves, situated in a part of the medulla oblongata; a center of reflex action by the working of which afferent impulses are changed into efferent, -- vasomotor impulses leading ei…

woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes. -- Venetian chalk, a white compact or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc. -- Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides. -- Venetian glass, a kind of glass made by th…

To treat in a violent manner; to abuse. His wife Boadicea violated with stripes, his daughters with rape. Milton.

Striped; streaked. [Obs.]

A band, or stripe, of color.

Striped longitudinally.