Word Meanings - UNPLUME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strip of plumes or feathers; hence, to humiliate.

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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
• STRIP-LEAF
  Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
• STRIPLING
  A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• FEATHERSTITCH
  A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• HENCEFORWARD
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• STRIPED
  Having stripes of different colors; streaked. Striped bass. See under Bass. -- Striped maple , a slender American tree (Acer Pennsylvanicum) with finely striped bark. Called also striped dogwood, and moosewood. -- Striped mullet. See
• STRIPE
  A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance. 3. A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed
• STRIPPET
  A small stream. "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed.
• HENCEFORTH
  From this time forward; henceforward. I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton.
• HUMILIATE
  To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify. We stand humiliated rather than encouraged. M. Arnold.
• STRIP
  To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. (more info) 1. 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,
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
• ARCHENCEPHALA
  The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
• OUTSTRIP
  To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing. Appetites which . . . had outstripped the hours. Southey. He still outstript me in the race. Tennyson.
• WHENCEEVER
  Whencesoever.
• SITHENCE; SITHENS
  Since. See Sith, and Sithen. Piers Plowman.
• THENCEFORWARD
  From that time onward; thenceforth.
• RIPPING STRIP
  = Ripping panel.