Word Meanings - STRIPPET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small stream. "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed.

Related words: (words related to STRIPPET)

• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• STREAMLET
  A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• STREAM CLOCK
  An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• BROOK
  A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak. (more info) LG. brok, marshy
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• BROOKITE
  A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
• STREAM LINE
  The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.
• STREAMLINE
  Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• BROOK MINT
  See MINT
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• STREAMINESS
  The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor.
• STREAMY
  1. Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful. Arcadia However streamy now, adust and dry, Denied the goddess water. Prior. 2. Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream. His nodding helm emits a streamy ray. Pope.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• BROOKSIDE
  The bank of a brook.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• UPSTREAM
  Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
• DISTREAM
  To flow. Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.
• DOWNSTREAM
  Down the stream; as, floating downstream.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.