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The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).

lled also red mullet, and surmullet, esp. the plain surmullet (Mullus barbatus), and the striped surmullet (M. surmulletus) of Southern Europe. The former is the mullet of the Romans. It is noted for the brilliancy of its colors. See Surmullet. French mullet. See Ladyfish (a).

Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird.

A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India.

Without striations; unstriped; as, nonstriated muscle fibers.

A thin strip of dough, made with eggs, rolled up, cut into small pieces, and used in soup.

Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary. [R.] The triple and novene division ran throughout. Milman.

The act of stripping, or making bare or naked.

oscatus, or H. orientalis), native of Eastern Asia and the Indies. It has a dorsal white stripe, and another one across the shoulders. It has a strong musky odor.

Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure. O was also anciently used to represent 11: with a dash over it (O O, n.; pl. O's or Oes (.

eks are yellowish white, and the fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are striped with purplish black and cream color.

A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface. Garden orache, a plant (Atriplex hortensis), often used as a pot herb; -- also called mountain spinach.

To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond. Your zeal outruns my wishes. Sir W. Scott. The other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulcher. Jhon xx. 4.

To surpass, exceed, or outstrip in flying. Garth.

A stripe or band, as on a garment. Chaucer.

Striped. [Obs.] "[Buskins] . . . paled part per part." Spenser.

The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] Chaucer. Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]

almitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate.

A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.

omer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc. To parcel a rope (Naut.), to wind strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it. Totten. -- To parcel a seam (Naut.), to cover it with a strip of tarred canvas.