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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.

Music for such a dance or having its slow triple time characteristic strong accent beginning every second measure.

ssels. 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 eit…

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 the…

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

Striped; streaked. [Obs.]

respecting the duration of life, and the circumstances affecting its duration. -- Vital tripod. (Physiol.) See under Tripod. -- Vital vessels (Bot.), a name for latex tubes, now disused. See Latex.

A band, or stripe, of color.

Striped longitudinally.

A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal. Holland.

wo persons in circular figures with a whirling motion; also, a piece of music composed in triple measure for this kind of dance.

e here wantoned as in her prime. Milton. How merrily we would sally into the fields, and strip under the first warmth of the sun, and wanton like young dace in the streams! Lamb.