Word Meanings - MOOSEWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The striped maple . Leatherwood.

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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
• LEATHERWOOD
  A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.
• 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.
• MAPLE
  A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum;
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• BIRD'S-EYE MAPLE
  See MAPLE
• RIPPING STRIP
  = Ripping panel.