Strap"ping (?), a. Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow.
[Colloq.]
There are five and thirty strapping officers gone.
Farquhar.
Strap"ple (?), v. t. To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to
entangle. [Obs.] Chapman.
Strap"-shaped` (?), a. Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a
strap-shaped corolla.
Strap"work` (?), n. (Arch.) A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow
fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.
Strass (?), n. [So called from its inventor, a German jeweler: cf. F.
stras.] (Chem.) A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of
artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex
borosilicate of lead and potassium. Cf. Glass.
Stra"ta (?), n., pl. of Stratum.
Strat"a*gem (?), n. [F. stratagème (cf. Sp. estratagema, It.
stratagemma), L. strategema, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to be leader of an army,
fr. &?; a general; &?; an army (probably as being spread out; cf.
Stratum) + &?; to lead. See Agent.] An artifice or trick in war for
deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device;
secret plot; evil machination.
Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
Shak.
Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods,
but we that dream.
Pope.
Strat`a*gem"ic*al (?), a. Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical
epistle. [R.] Swift.
Strat`a*rith"me*try (?), n. [Gr. &?; army + &?; number + -metry.]
(Mil.) The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in
any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of
men in such a figure.
{ Strat`e*get"ic (?), Strat`e*get"ic*al (?), } a. Strategic.
Strat`e*get"ics (?), n. Strategy.
{ Stra*te"gic (?), Stra*te"gic*al, } a. [Gr. &?; of or for a general:
cf. F. stratégique.] Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by
artifice. -- Stra*te"gic*al*ly, adv.
Strategic line (Mil.), a line joining strategic points. -- Strategic
point (Mil.), any point or region in the theater or warlike operations
which affords to its possessor an advantage over his opponent, as a
mountain pass, a junction of rivers or roads, a fortress, etc.
Stra*te"gics (?), n. Strategy.
Strat"e*gist (?), n. [Cf. F. stratégiste.] One skilled in strategy, or
the science of directing great military movements.
||Stra*te"gus (?), n.; pl. Strategi (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;. See
||Stratagem.] (Gr. Antiq.) The leader or commander of an army; a
||general.
Strat"e*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;: cf. F. stratégie. See Stratagem.] 1. The
science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and
directing great military movements; generalship.