stripe tail (striptal)

A humming-bird of the genus Eupherusa, of which there are several species. strip-leaf (strip'lēf), n. Tobacco from which the stalks have been removed before packing. strip-lights (strip'līts), n. pl. In a theater, rows of lights fastened behind wings. stripling (strip'ling), n. [Appar. And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the strip ling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56. And now a stripling cherub he appears. Milton , P. L., iii. 636. stripper (strip'ėr), n. [ wool - carding : (1) A small card-roll the function of which is to remove or strip the fiber from another roll in a carding-machine. The fiber thus stripped off is delivered to some other carding-roll or worker. In some carding-machines a stripper is used to take the wool from the licker-in and deliver it to the breast-cylinder. (2) An automatic device for lifting the top cards or flats employed in some kinds of wool-carding machines. Also called angle - stripper. (b) A machine for smoothing down old and worn-out files to make them ready for recutting; a file-stripper. (c) An implement used on osier-farms for stripping off willow bark. One form is an annular scraper through which the willows or switches are drawn after starting the bark sufficiently to allow the wood to pa through the scraper and be grasped by a pair of nippers. The bark thus stripped off is used for medicinal purposes, and the peeled switches are used for baskets and other willow wares. 5996 weak verb, pret. strived, afterward conformed to the analogy of strong verbs like drive, pret. drove, with pret. str of, strove, pp. striven ), Luke xiii. 24. Shak., Rich. III., v. 3. 104. When there is perfect sincerity - when each man is true to himself-when everyone strives to realize what he thinks the highest rectitude-then must all things prosper. H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 518. 2. To contend; struggle; battle; fight: followed by with , against, or for : as, to strive against fate; to strive for the truth. First with thi bettir be waar for to stryue , Azens thi felaw noo quarel thou contryue. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 58. While Iesvs stroue with Sathans strong Temptations. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. Against the Deity 'tis hard to strive. Prior, Second Hymn of Call i mach us. Striving with love and hate, with life and death, With hope that lies, and fear that threaten eth. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, II. 151. 3. To vie; contend for preëminence: with with , With the rose colour stroof hire he we. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 180. Nor that sweet grove Of Daphne by Orontes, and the inspired Cast ali an spring, might with this Paradise Of Eden strive. • Milton, P. L., iv. 275. 4. To quarrel or contend with one another; be at variance one with another, or come to be so; be in contention, dispute, or altercation. Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Shak., T. of the S., i. 2. 279. strobile under barn-owl. (c) Restricted to the wood-owls, like Strix stridula, having the facial disk complete, circular, and no plum i corns. In this sense it is now commonly employed. The common barred owl of the United States is Strix nebulosa. See cut in preceding column. stroakt, stroakingt. Obsolete spellings of strokel, stroking.