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strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required such stripping. Mrs. Gaskell.

The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

The act of stripping off the bark. [Obs.] Ash.

o deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.

The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.

The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet

A stripping or plundering; spoliation. Bailey.

Degradation; a stripping of titles and honors.

The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.

Stripping of possession; spoliation. [Obs.] A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort. Howell.

The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.

The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage. [Obs.] This ravenous expiation of the state. Daniel.

e in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil. His most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility. Shak. Foraging ant (Zoöl.), one of several species of ants of the ge…

The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn.

The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.

The act of stripping, or making bare or naked.

To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.

An implement for stripping and loosening the soil, without bringing up a fresh surface. You have your scarifiers to make the ground clean. Southey.

A kind of chisel or punch, variously shaped, with a broad flat end, used for stripping off rivet heads, etc.

, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. [Cant]