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.