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.
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To strip; to undress.
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To strip; to undress.
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To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of…
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To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of…
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To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
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To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
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A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
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A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
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To take out of a case or covering; to remove a case or covering from; to uncover.
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To take out of a case or covering; to remove a case or covering from; to uncover.
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To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.
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To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.
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To divest of clothes; to strip.
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To divest of clothes; to strip.
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a man-made object taken as a whole
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a man-made object taken as a whole
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A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco panti…
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Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
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Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
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A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
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A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in…
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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…
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A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…
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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
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An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a repres…
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Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.
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To make smooth.
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Taken.
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A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred…
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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…
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A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or con…
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To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.
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A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
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That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
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See Cramp, n., 2.
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of Fur
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An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence.
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One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…
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of Lead
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A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc.
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Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
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A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
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A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral.
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A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.
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To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
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Rough; stern; angry.
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A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.
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A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.
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See Spilikin.
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A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve toge…
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A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Thos…
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The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
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A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
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A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.
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To strip the bark from; to peel.
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To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
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Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
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To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.
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Alt. of Defoliated
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Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.
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To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.
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To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
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To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.
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To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by o…
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To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.
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A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.
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To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.
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A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
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To pull; to draw.
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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
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The external membranous integument of an animal.
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A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…
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To disarm.
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To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.
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To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.
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One who despoils.
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One who despoils.
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To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
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To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
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The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
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The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
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That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
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That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
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To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.
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To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.
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To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…
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The channel of a stream.
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A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public prin…
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A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wo…
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Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
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Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
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To denude.
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To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.
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To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
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To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.
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To strip; to undress.
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To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
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To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of…
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To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
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A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
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of Funny
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See 3d Leech.
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The act of plundering.
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A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
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The act of pillaging; robbery.
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To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
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To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.
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To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]
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To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
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To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
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To take out of a case or covering; to remove a case or covering from; to uncover.
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To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.
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To divest of clothes; to strip.
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