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A light dance. Other trippings to be trod of lighter toes. Milton.

In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly. Sing, and dance it trippingly. Shak. Speak the speech . . . trippingly on the tongue. Shak.

Same as Countertrippant.

trips. 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.

A method of tripping by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back; a throw made in this way. -- v. t.

The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.

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

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

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.

the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod. Milton. Bombay duck (Zoöl.), a fish. See Bummalo. -- Buffel duck, or Spirit duck. See Buffel duck. -- Duck ant (Zoöl.), a species of white ant in Jamaica which builds large nests in trees. -- Duck barnacle…

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.

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 gen…

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