Word Meanings - FRONDATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• PRUNER
  Any one of several species of beetles whose larvæ gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner , whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly
• PRUNIFEROUS
  Bearing plums.
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• PRUNELLA; PRUNELLO
  A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.
• PRUNELLE
  A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.
• PRUNE
  propagation; hence, probably, the meaning, to cut away superfluous 1. To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.
• PRUNING
  That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings. Beau. & Fl. Pruning hook, or Pruning knife, cutting instrument used in pruning trees, etc. -- Pruning shears, shears for pruning trees, vines, etc. (more info) 1. The act
• PRUNELLO
  A species of dried plum; prunelle.
• PRUNUS
  A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening. Note: Originally, this genus was limited to the plums, then, by Linnæus, was made to include the cherries and the apricot.
• STRIPPET
  A small stream. "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed.
• LEAVES
  pl. of Leaf.
• PRUNELLA
  Angina, or angina pectoris. Thrush. Prunella salt , niter fused and cast into little balls.
• REPRUNE
  To prune again or anew. Yet soon reprunes her wing to soar anew. Young.
• SPRUNTLY
  In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully. B. Jonson.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• UPRUN
  To run up; to ascend. The young sun That in the Ram is four degrees uprun. Chaucer. of matchless might, who, like a thriving plant, Upran to manhood. Cowper.
• CROSSTREES
  Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."
• SPRUNG
  imp. & p. p. of Spring.
• SPRUNT
  To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward. To sprunt up, to draw one's self up suddenly, as in anger or defiance; to bristle up.