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.