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reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut. [Written also kudu.]

Senegalensis), allied to the sassaby. It is reddish gray, with a black face, and a black stripe on the outside of the legs above the knees.

To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. [Colloq.] I'll lace your coat for ye. L'Estrange.

so called from its party- colored markings. The common European species (C. neustria) is striped with blue, yellow, and red, with a white line on the back. The American species (C. Americana and C. sylvatica) are commonly called tent caterpillars. See Tent caterpillar,under Tent. -- Lackey moth (Zoöl.), the moth which…

le (Zoöl.), an American leaf beetle (Chrysomela scalaris). The elytra are silvery white, striped and spotted with green; the under wings are rose-colored. It feeds upon the linden tree. -- Ladder handle, an iron rail at the side of a vertical fixed ladder, to grasp with the hand in climbing. -- Ladder shell (Zoöl.),…

A broad stripe of purple on the fore part of the tunic, worn by senators in ancient Rome as an emblem of office.

A stripe. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

ge and beautiful American moth (Actias luna). Its wings are delicate light green, with a stripe of purple along the front edge of the anterior wings, the other margins being edged with pale yellow. Each wing has a lunate spot surrounded by rings of light yellow, blue, and black. The caterpillar commonly feeds on the hi…

The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, or Mexicanus).

An African antelope (Hippotragus Bakeri). Its face is striped with black and white.

adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red.

maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.

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.

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.

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 stripe or band, as on a garment. Chaucer.