Word Meanings - UNSHALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strip the shale, or husk, from; to uncover. I will not unshale the jest before it be ripe. Marston.

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• UNSHALE
  To strip the shale, or husk, from; to uncover. I will not unshale the jest before it be ripe. Marston.
• 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.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• 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.
• UNCOVER
  1. To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body. 2. To show openly; to disclose; to reveal. "To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation." Milton. 3. To divest of the
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• 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.
• BEFORE
  1. In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton. 2. Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when;
• SHALE
  A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous. (more info) 1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "The green shales of a bean." Chapman. 2. Etym:
• 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.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• MARSHALER
  One who marshals.
• 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.
• ALUM SCHIST; ALUM SHALE
  A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.
• HEREINBEFORE
  In the preceding part of this .
• RIPPING STRIP
  = Ripping panel.