A political agency at a native court in British India,
held by an officer styled the Resident; also, a Dutch commercial colony
or province in the East Indies.
1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed earth is then bare, Despoil...