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To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [Obs.] But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces. Milton.

A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.

One who peels or strips.

See 1st Peel. Sir W. Scott.

Not peeled.

To strip the bark from; to peel.

A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

worth the cost or trouble. -- Rush candle, a candle made of the pith of certain rushes, peeled except on one side, and dipped in grease. -- Sale by inch of candle, an auction in which persons are allowed to bid only till a small piece of candle burns out. -- Standard candle (Photom.), a special form of candle emplo…

one's intention. They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse! Peele.

A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaçcao.

To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull. "Great barley dried and decorticated." Arbuthnot.

To strip off the bark; to peel. [Obs.] Ash.

To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.

To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.

To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.

An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.

g; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.

Candied orange peel; also, orangeade.

The peel or skin. [Obs.] "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts." Holland.

To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel. [Obs.] Bacon. Dryden.