STRENGTH, strength, _n._ quality of being strong: power of any kind, active
or passive: force, vigour, violence: solidity or toughness: power to resist
attack: excellence, boldness of conception or treatment: the required
consistency or degree of the essential element in any compound: intensity:
brightness: validity: vigour of style or expression: security: amount of
force: potency of liquors: available force or support: a fortification,
stronghold.--_v.t._ STRENGTH'EN, to make strong or stronger: to confirm: to
encourage: to increase in power or security.--_v.i._ to become
stronger.--_n._ STRENGTH'ENER, one who, or that which, supplies
strength.--_adjs._ STRENGTH'ENING, invigorating; STRENGTH'LESS, without
strength.--ON THE STRENGTH, on the muster-rolls of; ON, or UPON, THE
STRENGTH OF, in reliance upon.--PROOF-STRENGTH (see under PROOF). [A.S.
_strengthu_--_strang_, strong.]
STRENUOUS, stren'[=u]-us, _adj._ active: vigorous: urgent: zealous: bold:
necessitating exertion.--_n._ STRENUOS'ITY, strenuousness: a straining
after effect.--_adv._ STREN'UOUSLY.--_n._ STREN'UOUSNESS. [L. _strenuus_,
akin to Gr. _str[=e]n[=e]s_, strong.]
STREPENT, strep'ent, _adj._ (_rare_) noisy. [L. _strep[)e]re_, to make a
noise.]
STREPERA, strep'e-ra, _n._ an Australian genus of corvine passerine birds,
the crow-shrikes.--_adj._ STREP'ERINE. [L. _strep[)e]re_, to make a noise.]
STREPHON, stref'on, _n._ a love-sick shepherd in Sir Philip Sidney's
_Arcadia_, hence a love-sick swain generally.--_n._ STREPH'ONADE, a
love-song.
STREPITANT, strep'i-tant, _adj._ loud, noisy.
STREPITOSO, strep-i-t[=o]'z[=o], _adv._ (_mus._) in a loud, boisterous
manner.
STRESS, stres, _n._ force: pressure: urgency: strain: violence, as of the
weather: the relative loudness or emphasis with which certain syllables are
pronounced, accent: weight, importance: (_mech._) force exerted in any
direction or manner between two bodies--the greatest stress which a
substance will bear without being torn asunder being its ultimate
strength.--_v.t._ to constrain: lay stress on: to emphasise. [O. Fr.
_estrecir_, from L. _strictus_, _string[)e]re_, to draw tight.]
STRESS, stres, _n._ distress: legal distraining.
STRETCH, strech, _v.t._ to extend: to draw out: to expand: to reach out: to
exaggerate, strain, or carry further than is right: to cause to lie at full
length: (_slang_) to hang.--_v.i._ to be drawn out: to be extended: to
extend without breaking: to exaggerate.--_n._ act of stretching: effort:
struggle: reach: extension: state of being stretched: utmost extent of
meaning: course: one single uninterrupted sitting, turn, &c.: (_slang_) a
year's imprisonment.--_ns._ STRETCH'ER, anything used for stretching, as
gloves, hats, &c.: a frame on which a painter's canvas is stretched by
means of wedges forced into the corners: a frame for carrying the sick or
dead: a footboard for a rower; STRETCH'ER-BOND, a method of building in
which bricks or stones are laid lengthwise in successive courses, the
joints of the one falling at the middle of that above and below;
STRETCH'ING-COURSE, a course of bricks or stones having all the faces
outward; STRETCH'ING-FRAME, a machine for stretching cotton rovings before
being spun into yarn: a frame on which starched fabrics are dried;
STRETCH'ING-[=I]'RON, a currier's tool for dressing leather.--_adj._
STRETCH'Y, apt to stretch too much: liable to stretch one's self from
weariness. [A.S. _streccan_--_strec_, _stræc_, strong; cf. Ger. _strack_,
straight.]
STREW, str[=oo], _v.t._ to spread by scattering: to scatter
loosely:--_pa.p._ strewed or strewn.--_ns._ STREW'ING, act of scattering or
spreading over: anything fit to be strewed: (_Shak._) litter for cattle;
STREW'MENT (_Shak._), anything strewed or scattered in decoration. [A.S.
_streowian_; Ger. _streuen_, L. _stern[)e]re_.]
STRIA, str[=i]'a, _n._ a stripe or streak, a small channel or thread-like
line running parallel to another: (_archit._) one of the fillets between
the flutes of columns, &c.:--_pl._ STR[=I]'Æ ([=e]).--_v.t._
STR[=I][=A]TE', to score, stripe.--_adjs._ STR[=I]'[=A]TE, -D, marked with
striæ or small parallel channels.--_ns._ STR[=I][=A]'TION; STR[=I][=A]'TUM,
the _corpus striatum_, the great ganglion of the fore-brain; STR[=I]'ATURE,
mode of striation. [L. _stria_, a streak, _stri[=a]re_, _-[=a]tum_, to
furrow.]
STRICH, STRICK, strik, _n._ (_Spens._) the screech-owl. [L. _strix_,
_strigis_.]
STRICKEN, strik'n (_B._), _pa.p._ of strike.--STRICKEN IN YEARS, advanced
in years.--A STRICKEN HOUR, an hour as marked by the clock.
STRICKLE, strik'l, _n._ a straight-edge for levelling the top of a measure
of grain: a template.--Also STRICK'LER.
STRICT, strikt, _adj._ exact: extremely nice: observing exact rules,
regular: severe: restricted, taken strictly: thoroughly accurate: tense,
stiff: closely intimate: absolute, unbroken: constricted.--_n._
STRIC'TION.--_adv._ STRICT'LY, narrowly, closely, rigorously,
exclusively.--_ns._ STRICT'NESS; STRICT'URE (_surg._), an unnatural
contraction, either congenital or acquired, of a mucous canal, such as the
urethra, oesophagus, or intestine: an unfavourable criticism: censure:
critical remark. [L. _strictus_, pa.p. of _string[)e]re_, to draw tight.
Cf. _Strain_ and _Stringent_.]
STRIDDLE, strid'l, _v.i._ (_prov._) to straddle.
STRIDE, str[=i]d, _v.i._ to walk with long steps: to straddle.--_v.t._ to
pass over at a step: to bestride, ride upon:--_pa.t._ str[=o]de (_obs._
strid); _pa.p._ strid'den.--_n._ a long step, the space passed over in
such. [A.S. _strídan_, to stride; Ger. _streiten_, strive.]
STRIDENT, str[=i]'dent, _adj._ creaking, grating, harsh.--_adv._
STR[=I]'DENTLY.--_n._ STR[=I]'DOR, a harsh sound.--_adj._ STRID'[=U]LANT,
strident.--_n.pl._ STRID[=U]LAN'TIA, a group of hemipterous insects, the
cicadas.--_v.i._ STRID'[=U]LATE, to make a stridulous sound.--_ns._
STRID[=U]L[=A]'TION, the act of stridulating; STRID'[=U]L[=A]TOR, an insect
which emits such a sound.--_adjs._ STRID'[=U]L[=A]TORY, stridulant;
STRID'[=U]LOUS, emitting a harsh creaking sound. [L. _stridens_, _-entis_,
pr.p. of _strid[=e]re_, to creak.]
STRIFE, str[=i]f, _n._ contention for superiority: struggle for victory:
contest: discord.--_adj._ STRIFE'FUL (_Spens._), full of strife,
contentious, discordant--also STRIF'FUL. [M. E. _strif_--O. Fr.
_estrif_--Scand., Ice. _strith_, strife; Ger. _streit_, Dut. _strijd_,
strife.]
STRIG, strig, _n._ the footstalk of a flower or leaf.--_v.t._ to strip this
off.
STRIGA, str[=i]'ga, _n._ (_bot_.) a sharp bristle or hair-like scale: a
stripe, stria: the flute of a column:--_pl._ STR[=I]'GÆ.--_adjs._
STR[=I]'GATE, STR[=I]'GOSE, having strigæ: streaked; STRIG'ILOSE, minutely
strigose. [L. _striga_, a furrow--_string[)e]re_, to contract.]
STRIGES, str[=i]'jez, _n.pl._ the owls or _Strigidæ_, a sub-order of
_Raptores_.--_adj._ STRIG'INE, owl-like. [L. _strix_, _strigis_, an owl.]
STRIGIL, strij'il, _n._ a flesh-scraper. [L. _strigilis_, a
scraper--_string[)e]re_, to contract.]
STRIGILIS, strij'i-lis, _n._ an organ for cleaning the antennæ on the first
tarsal-joint of a bee's foreleg.
STRIGOPS, str[=i]'gops, _n._ a genus containing the kakapo or nocturnal New
Zealand parrot, the owl-parrots. [L. _strix_, _strigis_, owl, Gr. _[=o]ps_,
face.]
STRIKE, str[=i]k, _v.t._ to give a blow to: to hit with force, to smite: to
pierce: to dash: to stamp: to coin: to thrust in: to cause to sound: to let
down, as a sail: to ground upon, as a ship: to punish: to affect strongly:
to affect suddenly with alarm or surprise: to make a compact or agreement,
to ratify: to take down and remove: to erase (with _out_, _off_): to come
upon unexpectedly: to occur to: to appear to: to assume: to hook a fish by
a quick turn of the wrist: (_slang_) to steal: (_B._) to stroke.--_v.i._ to
give a quick blow: to hit: to dash: to sound by being struck: to touch: to
run aground: to pass with a quick effect: to dart: to take root: to lower
the flag in token of respect or surrender: to give up work in order to
secure higher wages or the redress of some grievance: (_U.S._) to do menial
work for an officer: to become saturated with salt: to run, or fade in
colour:--_pa.t._ struck; _pa.p._ struck (_obs._ strick'en).--_n._ act of
striking for higher wages: (_geol_.) the direction of the outcrop of a
stratum--the line which it makes when it appears at the surface of the
earth, always being at right angles to the dip of the bend: (_U.S._) any
dishonest attempt to extort money by bringing in a bill in the hope of
being bought off by those interested: full measure, esp. of malt: the whole
coinage made at one time: an imperfect matrix for type: the metal plate
into which a door-latch strikes as the door closes: the crystalline
appearance of hard soaps.--_ns._ STRIKE'-PAY, an allowance paid by a
trades-union to men on strike; STR[=I]K'ER, one who, or that which,
strikes: a green-hand on shipboard.--_adj._ STR[=I]K'ING, affecting:
surprising: forcible: impressive: exact.--_adv._ STR[=I]K'INGLY.--_n._
STR[=I]K'INGNESS, quality of being striking, or of affecting or
surprising.--STRIKE A BALANCE, to bring out the relative state of a debtor
and creditor account; STRIKE A TENT, to take it down; STRIKE DOWN, to
prostrate by a blow or by illness; STRIKE FOR, to start suddenly for;
STRIKE FROM, to remove with a stroke; STRIKE HANDS (_B._), to become surety
for any one; STRIKE HOME, to strike right to the point aimed at; STRIKE IN,
to enter suddenly: to interpose; STRIKE INTO, to enter upon suddenly, to
break into; STRIKE OFF, to erase from an account, to deduct: to print: to
separate by a blow; STRIKE OIL, to find petroleum when boring for it: to
make a lucky hit; STRIKE OUT, to efface: to bring into light: to direct
one's course boldly outwards: to strike from the shoulder: to form by
sudden effort; STRIKE SAIL, to take in sail: to stop; STRIKE UP, to begin
to beat, sing, or play; STRIKE WORK, to cease work. [A.S. _strícan_; Ger.
_streichen_, to move, to strike.]
STRING, string, _n._ a small cord or slip of anything for tying, small
cord, twine: a ribbon: nerve, tendon, a vegetable fibre: the chord (slender
piece of wire or catgut stretched) of a musical instrument: (_pl._)
stringed instruments collectively: a cord on which things are filed, a
succession or series of things: a drove of horses: in billiards, the
buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept, the score itself: an
expedient, object in view or of pursuit: the highest range of planks in a
ship's ceiling.--_v.t._ to supply with strings: to put in tune: to put on a
string: to make tense or firm: to take the strings off.--_v.i._ to stretch
out into a long line: to form itself into strings: at billiards, to drive
the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which
player is to open the game:--_pa.t._ and _pa.p._ strung.--_ns._
STRING'-BAND, a band composed chiefly of stringed instruments;
STRING'-BOARD, a board which faces the well-hole of a staircase, and
receives the ends of the steps; STRING'-COURSE, a projecting horizontal
course or line of mouldings running quite along the face of a
building.--_adj._ STRINGED, having strings.--_ns._ STRING'ER, one who, or
that which, strings: a lengthwise timber on which a rail is fastened
resting on a transverse cross-tie or sleeper: any main lengthways timber in
a bridge or other building: a small screw-hook to which piano-strings are
sometimes attached: (_naut._) a shelf-piece, an inside horizontal plank,
supporting beam-ends, any heavy timber similarly carried round a vessel to
strengthen her for special heavy service, as whaling, &c.;
STRING'INESS.--_adj._ STRING'LESS, having no strings.--_ns._
STRING'-OR'GAN, a reed-organ having a graduated set of vibrators or free
reeds connected by rods which cause to vibrate corresponding wires or
strings stretched over a sounding-board; STRING'-PEA, a pea with edible
pods; STRING'-PIECE, a supporting timber forming the edge of the framework
of a floor or staircase, &c.; STRING'-PLATE; a metal plate bearing the
spring-block of a pianoforte.--_adj._ STRING'Y, consisting of strings or
small threads: fibrous: capable of being drawn into strings.--_n._
STRING'Y-BARK, one of a class of Australian gum-trees with very fibrous
bark.--HARP UPON ONE STRING (see under HARP); HAVE ONE ON A STRING, to gain
complete influence or control over some one: to place a person under great
anxiety; HAVE TWO STRINGS TO ONE'S BOW, to have more than one expedient for
attaining the object in view. [A.S. _strenge_, cord--_strang_, strong; Dut.
_streng_, Ice. _strengr_, Ger. _strang_; conn. with L. _string[)e]re_, to
draw tight.]
STRINGENT, strin'jent, _adj._ binding strongly: urgent.--_n._ STRIN'GENCY,
state or quality of being stringent: severe pressure.--_advs._ STRINGEN'DO
(_mus._) hastening the time; STRIN'GENTLY, in a stringent manner.--_n._
STRIN'GENTNESS. [L. _stringens_, _-entis_, pr.p. of _string[)e]re_.]
STRINGHALT, string'hawlt, _n._ a peculiar catching up of a horse's limbs,
usually of one or both hind-limbs, a variety of chorea or St Vitus's dance.
STRINKLE, string'kl, _v.t._ and _v.i._ (_Scot._) to sprinkle
sparingly.--_n._ STRINK'LING. [_Sprinkle_.]
STRIP, strip, v.t to pull off in strips or stripes: to tear off: to deprive
of a covering: to skin, to peel, to husk: to make bare: to expose: to
remove the overlying earth from a deposit: to deprive: to impoverish or
make destitute: to plunder: to press out the last milk at a milking: to
press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation: to
separate the leaves of tobacco from the stems.--_v.i._ to undress: to lose
the thread, as a screw: to come off:--_pr.p._ strip'ping; _pa.t._ and
_pa.p._ stripped.--_n._ a long narrow piece of anything (cf.
_Stripe_).--_ns._ STRIP'LEAF, tobacco which has been stripped of the stalks
before packing; STRIP'PER, one who, or that which, strips.--_n.pl._
STRIP'PINGS, the last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.--STRIP OFF, to
pull or take off: to cast off. [A.S. _strýpan_; Ger. _streifen_.]
STRIPE, str[=i]p, _n._ a blow, esp. one made with a lash, rod, &c.: a wale
or discoloured mark made by a lash or rod: a line, or long narrow division
of a different colour from the ground: kind, particular sort: striped
cloth.--_v.t._ to make stripes upon: to form with lines of different
colours.--_adjs._ STR[=I]PED, having stripes of different colours;
STR[=I]'PY, stripelike. [Old Dut. _strijpe_, a stripe in cloth; Dut.
_streep_, Low Ger. _stripe_, Ger. _streif_.]