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Stretch"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, stretches.
2. (Masonry) A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall. Gwilt.
3. (Arch.) A piece of timber used in building.
4. (Naut.) (a) A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet. (b) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped. Dana.
5. A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
6. An overstretching of the truth; a lie. [Slang]
7. One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
8. An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
9. The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
Stretch"ing (?), a. & n. from Stretch, v.
Stretching course (Masonry), a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.
||Stret"to (?), n. [It., close or contacted, pressed.] (Mus.) (a) The ||crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue. (b) In an ||opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time. ||[Written also stretta.]
Strew (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Strewed (?); p. p. strewn (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Strewing.] [OE. strewen, strawen, AS. strewian, streówian; akin to Ofries. strewa, OS. strewian, D. strooijen, G. streuen, OHG. strewen, Icel. str, Sw. strö, Dan. ströe, Goth. straujan, L. sternere, stratum, Gr. &?;, &?;, Skr. st&?;. √166. Cf. Stratum, Straw, Street.] 1. To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or 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.
And strewed his mangled limbs about the field.
Dryden.
On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about.
Beaconsfield.
2. To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground.
The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.
Spenser.
Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
Pope.
3. To spread abroad; to disseminate.
She may strew dangerous conjectures.
Shak.
Strew"ing (?), n. 1. The act of scattering or spreading.
2. Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural. Shak.
Strew"ment (?), n. Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. [Obs.] Shak.
Strewn (?), p. p. of Strew.
Stri"a (?), n.; pl. Striæ (#). [L., a furrow, channel, hollow.] 1. A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striæ, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striæ on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.
2. (Arch.) A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like. Oxf. Gloss.
Stri"ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Striated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Striating.] [See Striate, a.] To mark with striaæ. "Striated longitudinally." Owen.
{ Stri"ate (?), Stri"a*ted (?), } a. [L. striatus, p. p. of striare to furnish with channels, from stria a channel.] Marked with striaæ, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.
Stri*a"tion (?), n. 1. The quality or condition of being striated.
2. A stria; as, the striations on a shell.
||Stri*a"tum (?), n. [NL.] (Anat.) The corpus striatum.
Stri"a*ture (?), n. [L. striatura.] A stria.
Strich (?), n. [Cf. L. strix, strigs, a streech owl.] (Zoöl.) An owl. [Obs.] Spenser.
Strick, n. A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers. Knight.
Strick"en (?), p. p. & a. from Strike. 1. Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer. [See Strike, n.]
2. Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21.
Abraham was old and well stricken in age.
Gen. xxiv. 1.
3. Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock. [Scot.]
He persevered for a stricken hour in such a torrent of unnecessary tattle.
Sir W. Scott.
Speeches are spoken by the stricken hour, day after day, week, perhaps, after week.
Bayne.
Stric"kle (?), n. [See Strike.] 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.
2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
3. (Founding) An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.
4. (Carp. & Mason.) A templet; a pattern.
5. An instrument used in dressing flax. [Prov. Eng.]
Stric"kler (?), n. See Strickle.
Strick"less, n. See Strickle. [Prov. Eng.]
Strict (?), a. [Compar. Stricter (?); superl. Strictest.] [L. strictus, p. p. of stringere to draw or bind tight, to strain. See Strain, and cf. Strait, a.] 1. Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature. Dryden.
2. Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
3. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention. Shak.
It shall be still in strictest measure.
Milton.
4. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath. "Through the strict senteries." Milton.
5. Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
6. (Bot.) Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts to a principle or code by which he is bound; severe is strict with an implication often, but not always, of harshness. Strict is opposed to lax; severe is opposed to gentle.
And rules as strict his labored work confine, As if the Stagirite o'erlooked each line.
Pope.
Soon moved with touch of blame, thus Eve: - "What words have passed thy lips, Adam severe!"
Milton.
The Strict Observance, or Friars of the Strict Observance. (R. C. Ch.) See Observance.
Stric"tion (?), n. [L. strictio. See Stringent.] The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted.
Line of striction (Geom.), the line on a skew surface that cuts each generator in that point of it that is nearest to the succeeding generator.
Strict"ly, adv. In a strict manner; closely; precisely.
Strict"ness, n. Quality or state of being strict.
Stric"ture (?), n. [L. strictura a contraction, from stringere, strictum, to draw tight: cf. F. stricture. See Strict.] 1. Strictness. [Obs.]
A man of stricture and firm abstinence.
Shak.
2. A stroke; a glance; a touch. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.
3. A touch of adverse criticism; censure.
[I have] given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection on all and every passage.
Hammond.
4. (Med.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. Arbuthnot.
Stric"tured (?), a. (Med.) Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.
Strid (?), n. [See Stride.] A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride. [Prov. Eng.] Howitt.
This striding place is called the Strid.
Wordsworth.
Stride (?), v. t. [imp. Strode (?) (Obs. Strid (&?;)); p. p. Stridden (?) (Obs. Strid); p. pr. & vb. n. Striding.] [AS. strdan to stride, to strive; akin to LG. striden, OFries. strda to strive, D. strijden to strive, to contend, G. streiten, OHG. strtan; of uncertain origin. Cf. Straddle.] 1. To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner.
Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field.
Dryden.
2. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
Stride, v. t. 1. To pass over at a step; to step over. "A debtor that not dares to stride a limit." Shak.
2. To straddle; to bestride.
I mean to stride your steed.
Shak.
Stride, n. The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride. Pope.
God never meant that man should scale the heavens By strides of human wisdom.
Cowper.
Stri"dent (?), a. [L. stridens, -entis, p. pr. of stridere to make a grating or creaking noise.] Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray.
||Stri"dor (?), n. [L., from stridere to make any harsh, grating, or ||creaking sound.] A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise. Dryden.
Strid"u*late (?), v. t. [See Stridulous.] To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically (Zoöl.), to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.
Strid`u*la"tion (?), n. The act of stridulating. Specifically: (Zoöl.) (a) The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. (b) The noise itself.
The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong nervures of the fore wings. Many grasshoppers stridulate by rubbing the hind legs across strong nervures on the fore wings. The green grasshoppers and katydids stridulate by means of special organs at the base of the fore wings.
Strid"u*la`tor (?), n. [NL.] That which stridulates. Darwin.
Strid"u*la*to*ry (?), a. Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation. Darwin.
Strid"u*lous (?), a. [L. stridulus. See Strident.] Making a shrill, creaking sound. Sir T. Browne.
The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart.
Longfellow.
Stridulous laryngitis (Med.), a form of croup, or laryngitis, in children, associated with dyspnœa, occurring usually at night, and marked by crowing or stridulous breathing.
Strife (?), n. [OF. estrif. See Strive.] 1. The act of striving; earnest endeavor. [Archaic] Shak.
2. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.
Doting about questions and strifes of words.
1 Tim. vi. 4.
Thus gods contended -- noble strife - Who most should ease the wants of life.
Congreve.
3. Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.
Twenty of them fought in this black strife.
Shak.
These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love.
Dryden.
4. That which is contended against; occasion of contest. [Obs.] "Lamenting her unlucky strife." Spenser.
Syn. -- Contest; struggle; quarrel. See Contention.
Strife"ful (?), a. Contentious; discordant.
The ape was strifeful and ambitious.
Spenser.
Stri"gate (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having transverse bands of color.
||Stri"ges (?), n. pl. [L., pl. of strix a streech owl; cf. Gr. &?; a ||screaming night bird.] (Zoöl.) The tribe of birds which comprises the ||owls.
Strig"il (?), n. [L. strigilis, from stringere to graze, scrape.] (Gr. & Rom. Antiq.) An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.
Strig"il*lose` (?), a. [Dim. fr. strigose.] (Bot.) Set with stiff, slender bristles.
Stri"gine (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to owls; owl-like.
Strig"ment (?), n. [L. strigmentum.] Scraping; that which is scraped off. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Stri*gose" (?), a. [Cf. F. strigueux. See Strigil.] (Bot.) Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.
Stri"gous (?), a. (Bot.) Strigose. [R.]
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Strike (?), v. t. [imp. Struck (?); p. p. Struck, Stricken (&?;) (Stroock (&?;), Strucken (&?;), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly used in the p. p. than stricken.] [OE. striken to strike, proceed, flow, AS. strcan to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strhhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off (but perhaps not to L. stringere in sense to draw tight), striga a row, a furrow. Cf. Streak, Stroke.] 1. To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.
He at Philippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius.
Shak.
2. To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.
3. To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts.
Ex. xii. 7.
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.
Byron.
4. To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
5. To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.
6. To punish; to afflict; to smite.
To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity.
Prov. xvii. 26.
7. To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
8. To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.
9. To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.
Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view.
Atterbury.
They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
Pope.
10. To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.
How often has stricken you dumb with his irony!
Landor.
11. To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.
Waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
Milton.
12. To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.
13. To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.
Probably borrowed from the L. fœdus ferrire, to strike a compact, so called because an animal was struck and killed as a sacrifice on such occasions.
14. To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money. [Old Slang]
15. To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.
16. (Masonry) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
17. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.
18. To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars. [Slang]
19. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor. B. Edwards.
20. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
Behold, I thought, He will . . . strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
2 Kings v. 11.
21. To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past
## participle. "Well struck in years." Shak.
To strike an attitude, To strike a balance. See under Attitude, and Balance. -- To strike a jury (Law), to constitute a special jury ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to reduce it to the number of persons required by law. Burrill. -- To strike a lead. (a) (Mining) To find a vein of ore. (b) Fig.: To find a way to fortune. [Colloq.] -- To strike a ledger, or an account, to balance it. -- To strike hands with. (a) To shake hands with. Halliwell. (b) To make a compact or agreement with; to agree with. -- To strike off. (a) To erase from an account; to deduct; as, to strike off the interest of a debt. (b) (Print.) To impress; to print; as, to strike off a thousand copies of a book. (c) To separate by a blow or any sudden action; as, to strike off what is superfluous or corrupt. -- To strike oil, to find petroleum when boring for it; figuratively, to make a lucky hit financially. [Slang, U.S.] -- To strike one luck, to shake hands with one and wish good luck. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- To strike out. (a) To produce by collision; to force out, as, to strike out sparks with steel. (b) To blot out; to efface; to erase. "To methodize is as necessary as to strike out." Pope. (c) To form by a quick effort; to devise; to invent; to contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance. (d) (Baseball) To cause a player to strike out; -- said of the pitcher. See To strike out, under Strike, v. i. -- To strike sail. See under Sail. -- To strike up. (a) To cause to sound; to begin to beat. "Strike up the drums." Shak. (b) To begin to sing or play; as, to strike up a tune. (c) To raise (as sheet metal), in making diahes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die. -- To strike work, to quit work; to go on a strike.
Strike (?), v. i. To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields.
A mouse . . . struck forth sternly [bodily].
Piers Plowman.
2. To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
And fiercely took his trenchant blade in hand, With which he stroke so furious and so fell.
Spenser.
Strike now, or else the iron cools.
Shak.
3. To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.
4. To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes.
A deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Byron.
5. To make an attack; to aim a blow.
A puny subject strikes At thy great glory.
Shak.
Struck for throne, and striking found his doom.
Tennyson.
6. To touch; to act by appulse.
Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and its colors vanish.
Locke.
7. To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.
8. To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
Till a dart strike through his liver.
Prov. vii. 23.
Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem.
Dryden.
9. To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.
10. To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.
That the English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas.
Bp. Burnet.
11. To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.
12. To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.
13. To steal money. [Old Slang, Eng.] Nares.
To strike at, to aim a blow at. -- To strike for, to start suddenly on a course for. -- To strike home, to give a blow which reaches its object, to strike with effect. -- To strike in. (a) To enter suddenly. (b) To disappear from the surface, with internal effects, as an eruptive disease. (c) To come in suddenly; to interpose; to interrupt. "I proposed the embassy of Constantinople for Mr. Henshaw, but my Lord Winchelsea struck in." Evelyn. (d) To join in after another has begun,as in singing. -- To strike in with, to conform to; to suit itself to; to side with, to join with at once. "To assert this is to strike in with the known enemies of God's grace." South. -- To strike out. (a) To start; to wander; to make a sudden excursion; as, to strike out into an irregular course of life. (b) To strike with full force. (c) (Baseball) To be put out for not hitting the ball during one's turn at the bat. -- To strike up, to commence to play as a musician; to begin to sound, as an instrument. "Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up." Shak.
Strike (?), n. 1. The act of striking.
2. An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
3. A bushel; four pecks. [Prov. Eng.] Tusser.
4. An old measure of four bushels. [Prov. Eng.]
5. Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
Three hogsheads of ale of the first strike.
Sir W. Scott.
6. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence. [Obs.]
7. The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer.
Strikes are the insurrections of labor.
F. A. Walker.
8. (Iron Working) A puddler's stirrer.
9. (Geol.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.
10. The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.
Strike block (Carp.), a plane shorter than a jointer, used for fitting a short joint. Moxon. -- Strike of flax, a handful that may be hackled at once. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- Strike of sugar. (Sugar Making) (a) The act of emptying the teache, or last boiler, in which the cane juice is exposed to heat, into the coolers. (b) The quantity of the sirup thus emptied at once.
Strik"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.
2. A harpoon; also, a harpooner.
Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try fish.
Dampier.
3. A wencher; a lewd man. [Obs.] Massinger.
4. A workman who is on a strike.
5. A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought. [Political Cant]
Strik"ing, a. & n. from Strike, v.
Striking distance, the distance through which an object can be reached by striking; the distance at which a force is effective when directed to a particular object. -- Striking plate. (a) The plate against which the latch of a door lock strikes as the door is closed. (b) A part of the centering of an arch, which is driven back to loosen the centering in striking it.
Strik"ing, a. Affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible; impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance. "A striking fact." De Quincey. -- Strik"ing*ly, adv. -- Strik"ing*ness, n.
Strik"le (?), n. See Strickle.
String (strng), n. [OE. string, streng, AS. streng; akin to D. streng, G. strang, Icel. strengr, Sw. sträng, Dan. stræng; probably from the adj., E. strong (see Strong); or perhaps originally meaning, twisted, and akin to E. strangle.] 1. A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string. Shak.
Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string.
Prior.