str in kle

t. or i. [A variant of sprinkle (q. v.).] To sprinkle. ( Scotch.) str in-kling, s. [STRINKLE.] 1. The act of one who sprinkles. 2. That which is sprinkled; a sprinkling. those of Gadus, but are not included in the deepsea fauna. strip, * strepe, *strype, *stryppe (pa. t. *strepte, stripped, * stripte , pa. participle *strept, *i-struped, stripped ), v. t. & i. [A. S. strýpan ; cogn. with Dut. stroopen to plunder, to strip; strepen = to stripe; strippen to whip, to strip off leaves; O. H. Ger. stroufen ; Ger. streifen to graze.] [STRIPE.] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To pluck, pull, or tear off, as a covering. (Frequently with off .) "She stripped it from her arm." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, ii. 4. 2. To deprive of a covering; to skin, to peel. (Generally with of before the thing taken away; as, to strip a tree of its bark; to strip a man of his clothes.) "And stripped his limbs to such array, As best might suit the watery way." Scott: Lady of the Lake, ii. 36. 3. To despoil, to plunder, to pillage; to deprive of arms, accoutrements, . "A corpse which marauders have just stript and mangled."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. 4. To bereave, to deprive, to divest, to despoil, to make destitute. (With of before the thing taken away; as, to strip a man of his po e ions.) 5. To take away. "All the temporal lands would they strip from us." Shakesp.: Henry V., i. 1. *6. To uncover, to unsheathe. " Strip your sword stark naked." IMG:content-0433.png:[blocks in formation] To strip one's self: 1. To deprive one's self. (Followed by of ; as, to strip one's self of all one's po e ions.) 2. Specif .: To undre ; to take off one's clothes. "The moment they saw the king enter, they stripped themselves in great haste, being covered before."- Cook : Second Voyage , bk. i., ch. xi. strip-leaf, s . Tobacco from which the stalks have been removed before packing. (Simmonds.) strip (1), s . [STRIP, v., STRIPE, s.] IMG:content-0434.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Mining : An inclined trough in which ores are separated by being disturbed while covered by a stream of water descending the strip. strip (2), s. [Norm. Fr. estrippe waste.] Waste; destruction of fences, buildings, timber, .