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A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother. [Obs.]

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark. And strippen her out of her rude array.…

The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. [Prov. Eng.]

To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle. His bark is stoutly timbered. Shak.

oblong board or table (Tivoli board or table), which has a curved upper end, a set of numbered compartments at the lower end, side alleys, and the surface studded with pins and sometimes furnished with numbered depressions or cups.

etc., of a ship. [Written also top hamper.] All the ships of the fleet . . . were so encumbered with tophamper, so overweighted in proportion to their draught of water, that they could bear but little canvas, even with smooth seas and light and favorable winds. Motley.

rt of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place. [R.]

That part of the stock of a gun carriage which rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered. See Illust. of Gun carriage, under Gun.

To bereave of children; to make childless. Shak.

Bereft or deprived of life. [Obs.] Shak.

Not numbered or counted; as, untold money.

A glucoside extracted from the leaves of a certain plant (Urechitis suberecta) as a bitter white crystalline substance.

The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement. [R.]

A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband. "A poor widow." Chaucer. Grass widow. See under Grass. -- Widow bewitched, a woman separated from her husband; a grass widow. [Colloq.] Widow-in-mourning (Zoöl.), the macavahu. -- Widow monkey (Zoöl.), a small Sout…

Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.

Bereft. Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to ginger, or to a tribe (Zingibereæ) of endogenous plants of the order Scitamineæ. See Scitamineous.