Straitness – Strokal

Straitness

STRAITNESS, noun

1. Narrowness; as the straitness of a place; straitness of mind; straitness of circumstances.

2. Strictness; rigor; as the straitness of a mans proceedings.

3. Distress; difficulty; pressure from necessity of any kind, particularly from poverty.

4. Want; scarcity; or rather narrowness; as the straitness of the conveniences of life.

Strake

STRAKE, preterit tense of strike. [See Strike.]

STRAKE, noun

1. A streak. [Not used unless in reference to the range of planks in a ships side. See Streak.]

2. A narrow board. [Not used.]

3. The iron band of a wheel. [In the United States, this is called a band, or the tire of a wheel.]

Stram

STRAM, verb intransitive To spread out the limbs; to sprawl. [Local and vulgar.]

Stramash

STRAMASH, verb transitive To strike, beat or bang; to break; to destroy. [Local and vulgar.]

Stramineous

STRAMINEOUS, adjective [Latin , straw.]

1. Strawy; consisting of straw.

2. Chaffy; like straw; light.

Strand

STRAND, noun

1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean, or of a large lake, and perhaps of a navigable river. It is never used of the bank of a small river or pond. The Dutch on the Hudson apply it to a landing place; as the strand at Kingston.

2. One of the twists or parts of which a rope is composed.

STRAND, verb transitive

1. To drive or run aground on the sea shore, as a ship.

2. To break one of the strands of a rope.

STRAND, verb intransitive To drift or be driven on shore; to run aground; as, a ship strands at high water.

Stranded

STRANDED, participle passive

1. Run ashore.

2. Having a strand broken.

Stranding

STRANDING, participle present tense Running ashore; breaking a strand.

Strange

STRANGE, adjective [Latin]

1. Foreign; belonging to anther country.

I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. [This sense is nearly obsolete.]

2. Not domestic; belonging to others.

So she impatient her own faults to see, turns from herself, and in strange things delights. [Nearly obsolete.]

3. New; not before known, heard or seen. The former custom was familiar; the latter was new and strange to them. Hence,

4. Wonderful; causing surprise; exciting curiosity. It is strange that men will not receive improvement, when it is shown to be improvement.

Sated at length, ere long I might perceive strange alteration in me.

5. Odd; unusual; irregular; not according to the common way.

He's strange and peevish.

6. Remote. [Little used.]

7. Uncommon; unusual.

This made David to admire the law of god at that strange rate.

8. Unacquainted.

They were now at a gage, looking strange at one another.

9. strange is sometimes uttered by way of exclamation.

STRANGE! What extremes should thus preserve the snow, high on the Alps, or in deep caves below.

This is an elliptical expression for it is strange

STRANGE, verb transitive To alienate; to estrange. [Not in use.]

STRANGE, verb intransitive

1. To wonder; to be astonished. [Not in use.]

2. To be estranged or alienated. [Not in use.]

Strangely

STRANGELY, adverb

1. With some relation to foreigners.

2. Wonderfully; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder.

How strangely active are the acts of peace.

It would strangely delight you to see with what spirit he converses.

Strangeness

STRANGENESS, noun

1. Foreignness; the state of belonging to another country.

If I will obey the gospel, no distance of place, no strangeness of country can make any man a stranger to me.

2. Distance in behavior; reserve; coldness; forbidding manner.

Will you not observe the strangeness of his alterd countenance?

3. Remoteness from common manners or notions; uncouthness.

Men worthier than himself here tend the savage strangeness he puts on.

4. Alienation of mind; estrangement; mutual dislike.

This might seem a means to continue a strangeness between two nations. [This sense is obsolete or little used.

5. Wonderfulness; the power of exciting surprise and wonder; uncommonness that raises wonder by novelty.

This raised greater tumults in the hearts of men than the strangeness and seeming unreasonableness of all the former articles.

Stranger

STRANGER, noun

1. A foreigner; one who belongs to another country. Paris and London are visited by strangers from all the countries of Europe.

2. One of another town, city, state or province in the same country. The Commencements in American colleges are frequented by multitudes of strangers from the neighboring towns and states.

3. One unknown. The gentleman is a stranger to me.

4. One unacquainted.

My child is yet a stranger to the world.

I was no stranger to the original.

5. A guest; a visitor.

6. One not admitted to any communication or fellowship.

Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, and strangers to the sun yet ripen here.

7. In law, one not privy or party to an act.

STRANGER, verb intransitive To estrange; to alienate. [Not in use.]

Strangle

STRANGLE, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To choke; to suffocate; to destroy life by stopping respiration.

Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself.

2. To suppress; to hinder from birth or appearance.

Strangled

STRANGLED, participle passive Choked; suffocated; suppressed.

Strangler

STRANGLER, noun One who strangles.

Strangles

STRANGLES, noun Swellings in a horses throat.

Strangling

STRANGLING, participle present tense Choking; suffocating; suppressing.

STRANGLING, noun The act of destroying life by stopping respiration.

Strangulated

STRANGULATED, adjective Compressed. A hernia or rupture is said to be strangulated when it is so compressed as to cause dangerous symptoms.

Strangulation

STRANGULATION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of strangling; the act of destroying life by stopping respiration; suffocation.

2. That kind of suffocation which is common to women in hysterics; also, the straitening or compression of the intestines in hernia.

Strangury

STRANGURY, noun [Latin , Gr., a drop, urine.] Literally, a discharge of urine by drops; a difficulty of discharging urine, attended with pain.

Strap

STRAP, noun [Latin strap and strop appear to be from stripping, and perhaps stripe also; all having resemblance to a strip of bark peeled from a tree.]

1. A long narrow slip of cloth or lether, of various forms and for various uses; as the strap of a shoe or boot; straps for fastening trunks or other baggage, for stretching limbs in surgery, etc.

2. In botany, the flat part of the corollet in ligulate florets; also, an appendage to the leaf in some grasses.

STRAP, verb transitive

1. To beat or chastise with a strap

2. To fasten or bind with a strap

3. To rub on a strap for sharpening, as a razor.

Strap-Shaped

STRAP-SHAPED, adjective In botany, ligulate.

Strappado

STRAPPADO, noun A military punishment formerly practiced. It consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall, by which means a limb was sometimes dislocated.

STRAPPADO, verb transitive To torture.

Strapping

STRAPPING, participle present tense

1. Drawing on a strap, as a razor.

2. Binding with a strap.

3. adjective Tall; lusty; as a strapping fellow.

Strata

STRATA, noun plural [See Stratum.] Beds; layers; as strata of sand, clay or coal.

Stratagem

STRATAGEM, noun [Latin , Gr., to lead an army.]

1. An artifice, particularly in war; a plan or scheme for deceiving an enemy.

2. An artifice; a trick by which some advantage is intended to be obtained.

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem.

Stratege

STRATEGE, STRATEGUS, noun [Gr.] An Athenian general officer.

Strategus

STRATEGE, STRATEGUS noun [Gr.] An Athenian general officer.

Strath

STRATH, noun A vale, bottom or low ground between hills. [Not in use.]

Stratification

STRATIFICATION, noun [from stratify.]

1. The process by which substances in the earth have been formed into strata or layers.

2. The state of being formed into layers in the earth.

3. The act of laying in strata.

Stratified

STRATIFIED, participle passive Formed into a layer, as a terrene substance.

Stratify

STRATIFY, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To form into a layer, as substances in the earth. Thus clay, sand and other species of earth are often found stratified.

2. To lay in strata.

Stratifying

STRATIFYING, participle present tense Arranging in a layer, as terrene substances.

Stratocracy

STRATOCRACY, noun [Gr., an army; to hold.] A military government; government by military chiefs and an army.

Stratography

STRATOGRAPHY, noun [Gr., and army; to describe.] Description of armies, or what belongs to an army. [Not in use.]

Stratum

STRATUM, noun plural stratums or strata. The latter is most common. [Latin , to spread or lay.]

1. In geology and mineralogy, a layer; any species of earth, sand, coal and the like, arranged in a flat form, distinct from the adjacent matter. The thicker strata are called beds; and these beds are sometimes stratified.

2. A bed or layer artificially made.

Straught

STRAUGHT, participle passive for stretched.

Straw

STRAW, noun [G., Latin See Strew.]

1. The stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc. Chiefly of wheat, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat and peas. When used of single stalks, it admits of a plural, straws. Straws may show which way the wind blows. We say of grain while growing, the straw is large, or it is rusty.

2. A mass of the stalks of certain species of grain when cut, and after being thrashed; as a bundle or a load of straw In this sense, the word admits not the plural number.

3. Any thing proverbially worthless. I care not a straw for the play. I will not abate a straw

STRAW, verb transitive To spread or scatter. [See Strew and Strow.]

Straw-Built

STRAW-BUILT, adjective [straw and built.] Constructed of straw; as the suburbs of a straw-built citadel.

Straw-Color

STRAW-COLOR, noun The color of dry straw; a beautiful yellowish color.

Straw-Colored

STRAW-COLORED, adjective Of a light yellow, the color of dry straw.

Straw-Cutter

STRAW-CUTTER, noun An instrument to cut straw for fodder.

Straw-Drain

STRAW-DRAIN, noun A drain filled with straw.

Straw-Stuffed

STRAW-STUFFED, adjective Stuffed with straw.

Straw-Worm

STRAW-WORM, noun [straw and worm.] A worm bred in straw.

Strawberry

STRAWBERRY, noun [straw and berry.] A plant and its fruit, of the genus Fragaria. Strawberries are of various kinds, all delicious fruit.

Strawberry-Tree

STRAWBERRY-TREE, noun An evergreen tree of the genus Arbutus; the fruit is of a fleshy substance, like a strawberry.

Strawy

STRAWY, adjective

1. Made of straw; consisting of straw.

2. Like straw; light.

Stray

STRAY, verb intransitive [The elements of this word are not certainly known. Latin , G., to wander, to strike; both probably from the root of reach, stretch. See Straggle.]

1. To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate or go out of the way. We say, to stray from the path or road into the forest or wood.

2. To wander from company, or from the proper limits; as, a sheep strays from the flock; a horse strays from an inclosure.

3. To rove; to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err; to deviate.

We have erred and strayed--

4. To wander; to rove at large; to play free and unconfined.

Lo, the glad gales oer all her beauties stray breathe on her lips and in her bosom play.

5. To wander; to run a serpentine course.

Where Thames among the wanton valley strays.

STRAY, verb transitive To mislead. [Not in use.]

STRAY, noun

1. Any domestic animal that has left an inclosure or its proper place and company, and wanders at large or is lost. The laws provide that strays shall be taken up, impounded and advertised.

Seeing him wander about, I took him up for a stray

2. The act of wandering. [Little used.]

Strayer

STRAYER, noun A wanderer. [Little used.]

Straying

STRAYING, participle present tense Wandering; roving; departing from the direct course, from the proper inclosure, or from the path of duty.

Streak

STREAK, noun [G., a stroke or stripe. Latin ]

1. A line or long mark, of a different color from the ground; a stripe.

What mean those colord streaks in heaven?

2. In a ship, a uniform range of planks on the side or bottom; sometimes pronounced strake.

STREAK, verb transitive

1. To form streaks or stripes in; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color or of different colors.

A mule admirably streaked and dappled with white and black--

Now streakd and glowing with the morning red.

2. To stretch. [Not elegant.

STREAK, verb intransitive To run swiftly. [Vulgar in New England.]

Streaked

STREAKED, participle passive Marked or variegated with stripes of a different color.

Streaking

STREAKING, participle present tense Making streaks in.

Streaky

STREAKY, adjective Having stripes; striped; variegated with lines of a different color.

Stream

STREAM, noun

1. A current of water or other fluid; a liquid substance flowing in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river or brook, or from a vessel or other reservoir or fountain. Hence,

2. A river, brook or rivulet.

3. A current of water in the ocean; as the gulf stream

4. A current of melted metal or other substance; as a stream of lead or iron flowing from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.

5. Any thing issuing from a source and moving with a continued succession of parts; as a stream of words; a stream of sand.

A stream of beneficence.

6. A continued current of course; as a stream of weather. [Not used.]

The stream of his life.

7. A current of air or gas, or of light.

8. Current; drift; as of opinions or manners. It is difficult to oppose the stream of public opinion.

9. Water.

STREAM, verb intransitive

1. To flow; to move or run in a continuous current. Blood streams from a vein.

Beneath the banks where rivers stream

2. To emit; to pour out in abundance. His eyes streamed with tears.

3. To issue with continuance, not by fits.

From opning skies my streaming glories shine.

4. To issue or shoot in streaks; as light streaming from the east.

5. To extend; to stretch in a long line; as a flag streaming in the wind.

STREAM, verb transitive To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.

The heralds mantle is streamed with gold.

Stream-Tin

STREAM-TIN, noun Particles or masses of tin found beneath the surface of alluvial ground.

Streamer

STREAMER, noun An ensign or flag; a pennon extended or flowing in the wind; a poetic use of the word.

Brave Rupert from afar appears, whose waving streamers the glad general knows.

Streaming

STREAMING, participle present tense

1. Flowing; running in a current.

2. Emitting; pouring out in abundance; as streaming eyes.

3. Flowing; floating loosely; as a flag.

Streamlet

STREAMLET, noun A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.

Streamy

STREAMY, adjective

1. Abounding with running water.

However streamy now, adust and dry, denied the goddess water.

2. Flowing with a current or streak.

His nodding helm emits a streamy ray.

Streek

STREEK, verb transitive To lay out, as a dead body. [Not in use.]

Street

STREET, noun [Latin , strewed or spread. See Strew.]

1. Properly, a paved way or road; but in usage, any way or road in a city, chiefly a main way, in distinction from a lane or alley.

2. Among the people of New England, any public highway.

3. Streets, plural, any public way, road or place.

That there be no complaining in our streets. Psalms 144:13.

Street-Walker

STREET-WALKER, noun [street and walk.] A common prostitute that offers herself to sale in the streets.

Street-Ward

STREET-WARD, noun [street and ward.] Formerly, an officer who had the care of the streets.

Streight

STREIGHT, noun A narrow. [See Strait.]

STREIGHT, adverb Strictly. [See Strait.]

Strene

STRENE, noun Race; offspring.

Strength

STRENGTH, noun [See Strong.]

1. That property or quality of an animal body by which it is enabled to move itself or other bodies. We say, a sick man has not strength to walk, or to raise his head or his arm. We say, a man has strength to lift a weight, or to draw it. This quality is called also power and force. But force is also used to denote the effect of strength exerted, or the quantity of motion. strength in this sense, is positive, or the power of producing positive motion or action, and is opposed to weakness.

2. Firmness; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they sustain the application of force without breaking or yielding. Thus we speak of the strength of a bone, the strength of a beam, the strength of a wall, the strength of a rope. In this sense, strength is a passive quality, and is opposed to weakness or frangibility.

3. Power or vigor of any kind.

This act shall crush the strength of Satan.

STRENGTH there must be either of love or war.

4. Power of resisting attacks; fastness; as the strength of a castle or fort.

5. Support; that which supports; that which supplies strength; security.

God is our refuge and strength Psalms 46:1.

6. Power of mind; intellectual force; the power of any faculty; as strength of memory; strength of reason; strength of judgment.

7. Spirit; animation.

Me thinks I feel new strength within me rise.

8. Force of writing; vigor; nervous diction. The strength of words, of style, of expression and the like, consists in the full and forcible exhibition of ideas, by which a sensible or deep impression is made on the mind of a hearer or reader. It is distinguished from softness or sweetness. strength of language enforces an argument, produces conviction, or excites wonder or other strong emotion; softness and sweetness give pleasure.

And praise the easy vigor of a line, where Denhams strength and Wellers sweetness join.

9. Vividness; as strength of colors or coloring.

10. Spirit; the quality of any liquor which has the power of affecting the taste, or of producing sensible effects on other bodies; as the strength of wine or spirit; the strength of an acid.

11. The virtue or spirit of any vegetable, or of its juices or qualities.

12. Legal or moral force; validity; the quality of binding, uniting or securing; as the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion or custom.

13. Vigor; natural force; as the strength of natural affection.

14. That which supports; confidence.

The allies, after a successful summer, are too apt upon the strength of it to neglect preparation for the ensuing campaign.

15. Amount of force, military or naval; an army or navy; number of troops or ships well appointed. What is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?

16. Soundness; force; the quality that convinces, persuades or commands assent; as the strength of an argument or of reasoning; the strength of evidence.

17. Vehemence; force proceeding from motion and proportioned to it; as the strength of wind or a current of water.

18. Degree of brightness or vividness; as the strength of light.

19. Fortification; fortress; as an inaccessible strength [Not in use.]

20. Support; maintenance of power.

What they boded would be a mischief to us, you are providing shall be one of our principal strengths. [Not used.]

STRENGTH, verb intransitive To strengthen. [Not in use.]

Strengthen

STRENGTHEN, verb transitive

1. To make strong or stronger; to add strength to, either physical, legal or moral; as, to strengthen a limb; to strengthen an obligation.

2. To confirm; to establish; as, to strengthen authority.

3. To animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution.

Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him. Deuteronomy 3:28.

4. To cause to increase in power or security.

Let noble warwick, Cobham and the rest, with powerful policy strengthen themselves.

STRENGTHEN, verb intransitive To grow strong or stronger.

The disease that shall destroy at length, grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Strengthened

STRENGTHENED, participle passive Made strong or stronger; confirmed.

Strengthener

STRENGTHENER, noun

1. That which increases strength, physical or moral.

2. In medicine, something which, taken into the system, increases the action and energy of the vital powers.

Strengthening

STRENGTHENING, participle present tense Increasing strength, physical or moral; confirming; animating.

Strengthless

STRENGTHLESS, adjective

1. Wanting strength; destitute of power.

2. Wanting spirit. [Little used.]

Strenuous

STRENUOUS, adjective [Latin]

1. Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; as a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous opposer of African slavery.

2. Bold and active; valiant, intrepid and ardent; as a strenuous defender of his country.

Strenuously

STRENUOUSLY, adverb

1. With eager and pressing zeal; ardently.

2. Boldly; vigorously; actively.

Strenuousness

STRENUOUSNESS, noun Eagerness; earnestness; active zeal; ardor in pursuit of an object, or in opposition to a measure.

Strepent

STREPENT, adjective [Latin] Noisy; loud. [Little used.]

Streperous

STREPEROUS, adjective [Latin] Loud; boisterous. [Little used.]

Stress

STRESS, noun

1. Force; urgency; pressure; importance; that which bears with most weight; as the stress of a legal question. Consider how much stress is laid on the exercise of charity in the New Testament.

This, on which the great stress of the business depends--

2. Force or violence; as stress of weather.

3. Force; violence; strain.

Though the faculties of the mind are improved by exercise, yet they must not be put to a stress beyond their strength.

STRESS, verb transitive To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties. [Little used.]

Stretch

STRETCH, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To draw out to greater length; to extend in a line; as, to stretch a cord or a rope.

2. To extend in breadth; as, to stretch cloth.

3. To spread; to expand; as, to stretch the wings.

4. To reach; to extend.

STRETCH thine hand to the poor.

5. To spread; to display; as, to stretch forth the heavens.

6. To draw or pull out in length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.

7. To make tense; to strain.

So the stretchd cord the shackled dancer tries.

8. To extend mentally; as, to stretch the mind or thoughts.

9. To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch ones credit.

STRETCH, verb intransitive

1. To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both. A wet hempen cord or cloth contracts; in drying, it stretches.

2. To be extended; to spread; as, a lake stretches over a hundred miles of earth. Lake Erie stretches from Niagara nearly to Huron. Hence,

3. To stretch to, is to reach.

4. To be extended or to bear extension without breaking, as elastic substances.

The inner membrane--because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.

5. To sally beyond the truth; to exaggerate. A man who is apt to stretch has less credit than others.

6. In navigation, to sail; to direct a course. It is often understood to signify to sail under a great spread of canvas close hauled. In this it differs from stand, which implies no press of sail. We were standing to the east, when we saw a ship stretching to the southward.

7. To make violent efforts in running.

STRETCH, noun

1. Extension in length or in breadth; reach; as a great stretch of wings.

2. Effort; struggle; strain.

Those put lawful authority upon the stretch to the abuse of power, under color of prerogative.

3. Force of body; straining.

By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain.

4. Utmost extent of meaning.

Quotations, in their utmost stretch can signify no more than that Luther lay under severe agonies of mind.

5. Utmost reach of power.

This is the utmost stretch that nature can.

6. In sailing, a tack; the reach or extent of progress on one tack.

7. Course; direction; as the stretch of seams of coal.

Stretched

STRETCHED, participle passive Drawn out in length; extended; exerted to the utmost.

Stretcher

STRETCHER, noun

1. He or that which stretches.

2. A term in bricklaying.

3. A piece of timber in building.

4. A narrow piece of plank placed across a boat for the rowers to set their feet against.

Stretching

STRETCHING, participle present tense Drawing out in length; extending; spreading; exerting force.

Strew

STREW, verb transitive [This verb is written straw, strew or strow; straw is nearly obsolete, and strow is obsolescent. strew is generally used.]

1. To scatter; to spread by scattering; always applied to dry substances separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.

2. To spread by being scattered over.

The snow which does the top of Pindus strew

Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?

3. To scatter loosely.

And strewd his mangled limbs about the field.

Strewed

STREWED, participle passive

1. Scattered; spread by scattering; as sand strewed on paper.

2. Covered or sprinkled with something scattered; as a floor strewed with sand.

Strewing

STREWING, participle present tense Scattering; spreading over.

STREWING, noun

1. The act of scattering or spreading over.

2. Any thing fit to be strewed.

Strewment

STREWMENT, noun Any thing scattered in decoration. [Not used.]

Striae

STRIAE, noun plural [Latin See Streak.] In natural history, small channels in the shells of cockles and in other substances.

Striate

STRIATE, STRIATED, a. 1. Formed with small channels; channeled.2. In botany, streaked; marked or scored with superficial or very slender lines; marked with fine parallel lines.Striated fracture, in mineralogy, consists of long narrow separable parts laid on or beside each other.

Striated

STRIATE, STRIATED adjective

1. Formed with small channels; channeled.

2. In botany, streaked; marked or scored with superficial or very slender lines; marked with fine parallel lines.

Striated fracture, in mineralogy, consists of long narrow separable parts laid on or beside each other.

Striature

STRIATURE, noun Disposition of striae.

Strick

STRICK, noun [Gr., Latin , a screech-owl.] A bird of ill omen. [Not in use.]

Stricken

STRICKEN, participle passive of strike.

1. Struck; smitten; as the stricken deer. [See Strike.]

2. Advanced; worn; far gone.

Abraham was old and well stricken in age. Genesis 24:1.

Strickle

STRICKLE, noun [from strike.]

1. A strike; an instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure. [In the United States the word strike is used.]

2. An instrument for whetting sythes.

Strict

STRICT, adjective [Latin See Strain.]

1. Strained; drawn close; tight; as a strict embrace; a strict ligature.

2. Tense; not relaxed; as a strict or lax fiber.

3. Exact; accurate; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch. Observe the strictest rules of virtue and decorum.

4. Severe; rigorous; governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; as, the father is very strict in observing the sabbath. The master is very strict with his apprentices.

5. Rigorous; not mild or indulgent; as strict laws.

6. Confined; limited; not with latitude; as, to understand words in a strict sense.

Strictly

STRICTLY, adverb

1. Closely; tightly.

2. Exactly; with nice accuracy; as, patriotism strictly so called , is a noble virtue.

3. Positively. He commanded his son strictly to proceed no further.

4. Rigorously; severely; without remission or indulgence.

Examine thyself strictly whether thou didst not best at first.

Strictness

STRICTNESS, noun

1. Closeness; tightness; opposed to laxity.

2. Exactness in the observance of rules, laws, rites and the like; rigorous accuracy; nice regularity or precision.

I could not grant too much or distrust too little to men that pretended singular piety and religious strictness

3. Rigor; severity.

These commissioners proceeded with such strictness and severity as did much obscure the kings mercy.

Stricture

STRICTURE, noun [Latin See Strike and Stroke.]

1. A stroke; a glance; a touch.

2. A touch of criticism; critical remark; censure.

I have given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection, on every passage.

3. A drawing; a spasmodic or other morbid contraction of any passage of the body.

Stride

STRIDE, noun [Latin] A long step.

Her voice theatrically loud, and masculine her stride

STRIDE, verb intransitive preterit tense strid, strode; participle passive strid, stridden.

1. To walk with long steps.

Mars in the middle of the shining shield is gravd, and strides along the field.

2. To straddle.

STRIDE, verb transitive To pass over at a step.

See him stride valleys wide.

Striding

STRIDING, participle present tense Walking with long steps; passing over at a step.

Stridor

STRIDOR, noun [Latin] A harsh creaking noise, or a crack.

Stridulous

STRIDULOUS, adjective [Latin] Making a small harsh sound or a creaking.

Strife

STRIFE, noun [See Strive.]

1. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. strife may be carried on between students or between mechanics.

Thus Gods contended, noble strife who most should ease the wants of life.

2. Contention in anger or enmity; contest; struggle for victory; quarrel or war.

I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon. Judges 12:2.

These vows thus granted, raisd a strife above betwixt the god of war and queen of love.

3. Opposition; contrariety; contrast.

Artificial strife lives in these touches livelier than life.

4. The agitation produced by different qualities; as the strife of acid and alkali. [Little used.]

Strifeful

STRIFEFUL, adjective Contentious; discordant.

The ape was strifeful and ambitious and the fox guileful and most covetous.

Strigment

STRIGMENT, noun [Latin] Scraping; that which is scraped off. [Not in use.]

Strigous

STRIGOUS, adjective [Latin] In botany, a strigous leaf is one set with stiff lanceolate bristles.

Strike

STRIKE, verb transitive preterit tense struck; participle passive struck and stricken; but struck is in the most common use. Strook is wholly obsolete. [G., to pass, move or ramble, to depart, to touch, to stroke, to glide or glance over, to lower or strike as sails, to curry; Latin , to sweep together, to spread, as a plaster, to play on a violin, to card, as wool, to strike or whip, as with a rod; a stroke, stripe or lash.]

1. To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or an instrument; to give a blow to, either with the open hand, the fist, a stick, club or whip, or with a pointed instrument, or with a ball or an arrow discharged. An arrow struck the shield; a ball strikes a ship between wind and water.

He at Philippi kept his sword een like a dancer, while I struck the lean and wrinkled Cassius.

2. To dash; to throw with a quick motion.

They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side-posts. Exodus 12:7.

3. To stamp; to impress; to coin; as, to strike coin at the mint; to strike dollars or sovereigns; also, to print; as, to strike five hundred copies of a book.

4. To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; as, a tree strikes its root deep.

5. To punish; to afflict; as smite is also used.

To punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity. Proverbs 17:26.

6. To cause to sound; to notify by sound; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.

7. To run upon; to be stranded. The ship struck at twelve, and remained fast.

8. To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.

Now and then a beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem.

9. To lower a flag or colors in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of the ship to an enemy.

10. To break forth; as, to strike into reputation. [Not in use.]

To strike in, to enter suddenly; also, to recede from the surface, as an eruption; to disappear.

To strike in with, to conform to; to suit itself to; to join with at once.

To strike out, to wander; to make a sudden excursion; as, to strike out into an irregular course of life.

To strike among workmen in manufactories, in England, is to quit work I a body or by combination, in order to compel their employers to raise their wages.

STRIKE, noun

1. An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt and the like, for scraping off what is above the level of the top.

2. A bushel; four pecks. [Local.]

3. A measure of four bushels or half a quarter. [Local.]

STRIKE of flax, a handful that may be hackled at once. [Local.]

Strike-Block

STRIKE-BLOCK, noun [strike and block.] A plane shorter than a jointer, used for shooting a short joint.

Striker

STRIKER, noun

1. One that strikes, or that which strikes.

2. In Scripture, a quarrelsome man. Titus 1:7.

Striking

STRIKING, participle present tense

1. Hitting with a blow; impressing; imprinting; punishing; lowering, as sails or a mast, etc.

2. adjective Affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible; impressive; as a striking representation or image.

3. Strong; exact; adapted to make impression; as a striking resemblance of features.

Strikingly

STRIKINGLY, adverb In such a manner as to affect or surprise; forcibly; strongly; impressively.

Strikingness

STRIKINGNESS, noun The quality of affecting or surprising.

String

STRING, noun [G., Latin , drawing, stretching.]

1. A small rope, line or cord, or a slender strip of lether or other like substance, used for fastening or tying things.

2. A ribin.

Round Ormonds knee thou tyst the mystic string

3. A thread on which any thing is filed; and hence, a line of things; as a string of shells or beads.

4. The chord of a musical instrument, as of a harpsichord, harp or violin; as an instrument of ten strings.

5. A fiber, as of a plant.

Duck weed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.

6. A nerve or tendon of an animal body.

The string of his tongue was loosed. Mark 7:35.

[This is not a technical word.]

7. The line or cord of a bow.

He twangs the quivring string

8. A series of things connected or following in succession; any concatenation of things; as a string of arguments; a string of propositions.

9. In ship-building, the highest range of planks in a ships ceiling, or that between the gunwale and the upper edge of the upper deck ports.

10. The tough substance that unites the two parts of the pericarp of leguminous plants; as the strings of beans.

To have two strings to the bow, to have two expedients for executing a project or gaining a purpose; to have a double advantage, or to have two views. [In the latter sense, unusual.]

STRING, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive strung.

1. To furnish with strings.

Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet?

2. To put in tune a stringed instrument.

For here the muse so oft her harp has strung--

3. To file; to put on a line; as, to string beads or pearls.

4. To make tense; to strengthen.

Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.

5. To deprive of strings; as, to string beans.

Stringed

STRINGED, adjective

1. Having strings; as a stringed instrument.

2. Produced by strings; as stringed noise.

Stringent

STRINGENT, for astringent, binding, is not in use.

Stringhalt

STRINGHALT, noun [string and halt.] A sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive motion of the muscles that extend or bend the hough. [This word in some of the United States, is corrupted into springhalt.]

Stringing

STRINGING, participle present tense Furnishing with strings; putting in tune; filling; making tense; depriving of strings.

Stringless

STRINGLESS, adjective Having no strings.

His tongue is now a stringless instrument.

Stringy

STRINGY, adjective

1. Consisting of strings or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as a stringy root.

2. Ropy; viscid; gluey; that may be drawn into a thread.

Strip

STRIP, verb transitive [G., to strip to flay, to stripe or streak, to graze upon, to swerve, ramble or stroll. Latin ]

1. To pull or tear off, as a covering; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a mans back.

2. To deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark; to strip a man of his clothes.

3. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; as, to strip a man of his possessions.

4. To divest; as, to strip one of his rights and privileges. Let us strip this subject of all its adventitious glare.

5. To rob; to plunder; as, robbers strip a house.

6. To bereave; to deprive; to impoverish; as a man stripped of his fortune.

7. To deprive; to make bare by cutting, grazing or other means; as cattle strip the ground of its herbage.

8. To pull off husks; to husk; as, to strip maiz, or the ears of maiz.

9. To press out the last milk at a milking.

10. To unrig; as, to strip a ship.

11. To pare off the surface of land in strips, and turn over the strips upon the adjoining surface.

To strip off,

1. To pull or take off; as, to strip off a covering; to strip off a mask or disguise.

2. To cast off. [Not in use.]

3. To separate from something connected. [Not in use.]

[We may observe the primary sense of this word is to peel or skin, hence to pull off in a long narrow piece; hence stripe.]

STRIP, noun [G., a stripe, a streak.]

1. A narrow piece, comparatively long; as a strip of cloth.

2. Waste, in a legal sense; destruction of fences, buildings, timber, etc.

Stripe

STRIPE, noun [See Strip. It is probable that this word is taken from stripping.]

1. A line or long narrow division of any thing, of a different color from the ground as a stripe of red on a green ground; hence, any linear variation of color.

2. A strip or long narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as a long stripe sewed upon a garment.

3. The weal or long narrow mark discolored by a lash or rod.

4. A stroke made with a lash, whip, rod, strap or scourge.

Forty stripes may he give him, and not exceed. Deuteronomy 25:3.

[A blow with a club is not a stripe ]

5. Affliction; punishment; sufferings.

By his stripes are we healed. Isaiah 53:5.

STRIPE, verb transitive

1. To make stripes; to form with lines of different colors; to variegate with stripes.

2. To stripe; to lash. [Little used.]

Striped

STRIPED, participle passive

1. Formed with lines of different colors.

2. adjective Having stripes of different colors.

Striping

STRIPING, participle present tense Forming with stripes.

Stripling

STRIPLING, noun [from strip, stripe; primarily a tall slender youth, one that shoots up suddenly.] A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.

And the king said, inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Samuel 17:56.

Stripped

STRIPPED, participle passive Pulled or torn off; peeled; skinned; deprived; divested; made naked; impoverished; husked, as maiz.

Stripper

STRIPPER, noun One that strips.

Stripping

STRIPPING, participle present tense Pulling off; peeling; skinning; flaying; depriving; divesting; husking.

Strippings

STRIPPINGS, noun The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.

Strive

STRIVE, verb intransitive preterit tense strove; participle passive striven. [G. This word coincides in elements with drive, and the primary sense is nearly the same. See Rival.]

1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard; applicable to exertions of body or mind. A workman strives to perform his task before another; a student strives to excel his fellows in improvement.

Was it for this that his ambition strove to equal Cesar first, and after Jove?

STRIVE with me in your prayers to God for me. Romans 15:30.

STRIVE to enter in at the strait gate. Luke 8:1.

2. To contend; to contest; to struggle in opposition to another; to be in contention or dispute; followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.

My spirit shall not always strive with man. Genesis 6:3.

3. To oppose by contrariety of qualities.

Now private pity strove with public hate, reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.

4. To vie; to be comparable to; to emulate; to contend in excellence.

Not that sweet grove of Daphne by Orontes, and the inspird Castalian spring, might with this paradise of Eden strive

Striver

STRIVER, noun One that strives or contends; one who makes efforts of body or mind.

Striving

STRIVING, participle present tense Making efforts; exerting the power of body or mind with earnestness; contending.

STRIVING, noun The act of making efforts; contest; contention.

Avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the law. Titus 3:9.

Strivingly

STRIVINGLY, adverb With earnest efforts; with struggles.

Strobil

STROBIL, noun [Latin] In botany, a pericarp formed from an ament by the hardening of the scales. IT is made up of scales that are imbricate, from an ament contracted or squeezed together in this states of maturity, as the cone of the pine.

Strobiliform

STROBILIFORM, adjective [Latin , supra.] Shaped like a strobil, as a spike.

Strocal

STROCAL, STROKAL, noun An instrument used by glass-makers to empty the metal from one pot to another.

Strode

STRUDE, STRODE noun A stock of breeding mares.

Strokal

STROCAL, STROKAL noun An instrument used by glass-makers to empty the metal from one pot to another.