Oakham.

STRETTON, a township of England, in Staffordshire, three miles south-west by west of Penkridge.

STREW, v. a. ? Sometimes strow. SkinSTREW'MENT, n. s. Sner proposes strow, and Junius writes straw. Sax. repeapian; Gothic strawan; Belg. stroyen; Dan. strúer. Perhaps strow is best,' says Johnson, being that which reconciles etymology with pronunciation.' To spread by scattering, or being scattered; to scatter loosely the noun substantive corresponding.

The calf he burnt in the fire, ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made Israel drink of it.

Synah, can I tell thee more?

And of our ladies bowre;

But little need to strow my store,
Suffice this hill of our.

Erodus.

Spenser.

I thought thy bride bed to have decked, sweet maid!

And not have strew'd thy grave.

Shakspeare. Hamlet. Her death was doubtful.-For charitable prayers, Shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her; Yet here she is allowed her virgin chants, Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home Of bell and burial.

Angel forms lay entranced

Id.

STRIATE, OF

Pope.

Swift.

Lat. stria. In natural history, the small channels

Crystal, when incorporated with the fibrous tales, shews, if broke, a striated or fibrous texture, like those talcs. Woodward.

Parts of tuberous hæmatitæ show several varieties

in the crust, striature, and texture of the body. Id. STRIATED LEAF, among botanists, one that has a number of longitudinal furrows on its surface.

STRIATED LIMESTONE, a species or variety See MINERof indurated carbonate of lime.

ALOGY.

STRICK, n. s. Gr. spy; Lat. strix. A bird of bad omen.

Lat. strictus.

The ill-faced owl, death's dreadful messenger, The hoarse night-raven, trump of doleful drere, The leather-winged bat, day's enemy, The rueful strick, still waiting on the bier. Spenser. STRICT, adj. Exact; STRICTLY, adv. accurate; rigorously nice; STRICTNESS, n. s. O confined; close; tight: the adverb and noun substantive corresponding. As they took the compass of their commission stricter or larger, so their dealings were more or less moderate. Hooker. Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends To the strict deputy.

Shakspeare. Measure for Measure. These commissioners proceeded with such strictness and severity as did much obscure the king's mercy. Bacon's Henry VII. His horse-troupes, that the vanguard had, he strictly did command To ride their horses temperately.

Chapman. I could not grant too much, or distrust too little to men that pretended singular piety and religious King Charles.

strictness.

Thou'lt fall into deception unaware, Not keeping strictest watch.

Thy will

By nature free, not over-ruled by fate
Inextricable, or strict necessity.

The god, with speedy pace, Just thought to strain her in a strict embrace.

Milton.

Dryden.

These effluviums fly by striated atoms and winding particles, as Des Cartes conceiveth; or glide by streams attracted from either pole unto the equator. Browne's Vulgar Errours.

The salt, leisurely permitted to shoot of itself in the liquor, exposed to the open air, did shoot into more fair crystalline stric than those that were gained out of the remaining part of the same liquor by a more hasty evaporation. Boyle.

Des Cartes imagines this earth once to have been a sun, and so the centre of a lesser vortex, whose axis still kept the same posture, by reason of the striate particles finding no fit pores for their passages, but only in this direction.

Ray.

Prior.

See him stride Vallies wide.

Dryden. Arbuthnot.

To Jove, or to thy father Neptune, pray, The brethren cried, and instant strode away. Pope. Her voice theatrically loud, And masculine her stride. Swift. STRIDONIUM, an ancient town of Hungary, famous for being the birth-place of St. Jerome, now called Strigova.

STRID'ULOUS, adj. Lat. stridulus. Making a small noise.

It arises from a small and stridulous noise, which, being firmly rooted, maketh a divulsion of parts.

Browne. STRIFE, n. s. From STRIVE, which see. STRIFE'FUL, adj. Contention; contest; discord; war: hence lawsuit; opposition of any kind: the adjective corresponding.

I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon. Judges xii. 2. Some preach Christ even of envy and strife, and some of good will. Phil. i. 15. He is proud, knowing nothing; but doating about questions and strife of words.

1 Tim. vi. 4.

The ape was strifeful and ambitious, And the fox guileful and most covetous. Artificial strife

Spenser.

Lives in those touches, livelier than life. Shakspeare. These acts of hateful strife, hateful to all, How hast thou disturbed heaven's blessed peace! Milton.

Addison.

"Tis this that shakes our country with alarms, And gives up Rome a prey to Roman arms, Produces fraud, and cruelty, and strife. I know not what new creation may creep forth from the strifeful heap of things, into which, as into a second chaos, we are fallen.

Inheriting no strife,

Dr. Maine.

Pope.

Nor marrying discord in a noble wife. Thus gods contended, noble strife! Who most should ease the wants of life. Congreve. STRIGELIUS (Victorinus), a learned German divine, born in Suabia, in 1524. In 1542 he went to the university of Wirtemberg to inform himself of the opinions of the Protestants. He attended the lectures of Luther and Melancthon, and became such a master of their doctrines that he soon after read lectures himself. But in 1559 he was imprisoned for opposing some of the established theological doctrines. In 1562 he was liberated, on which he went to Leipsic; where he taught divinity, logic, and ethics; and published notes on the Psalter, and

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other works. He died in 1569, aged only fortySTRIG'MENT, n. s. stringo, to scrape. Scraping; recrement. Lat. strigmentum, from

Many, besides the strigments and sudorous adhesions from men's hands, acknowledging that nothing proceedeth from gold in its usual decoction. Browne's Vulgar Errours. STRIKE, v. a., v. n.,& n. s. Į Pret. I struck or strook; part. pass.

STRIK'ER, N. s.

struck, strucken, stricken, or strook. Sax. artnican; Teut. streichen; Isl. adstrykia; Swed. stryka; Dan. stricker. To act upon, or hit with, a blow: hence to dash; punish; afflict; stamp; note by a loud sound; lower; contract (applied particularly to sails); alarm; surprise; affect suddenly: to cause to sound by blows, taking up, emphatically; to forge; mint; conclude a bargain; taking the prepositions off and out as below: as a verb neuter, to make a blow or attack; collide; act by percussion; be dashed; pass with strong motion or effort; lower: to strike in with' is to a measure of four pecks: striker, a person or conform ; 'strike out', spread or rove: a strike is thing that strikes.

Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in Genesis.

age.

The blood strike on the two side-posts.

Exodus xii. 7. Fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they strake sail, and so were driven. Acts xxvii. 17. A bishop then must be blameless, not given to wine, no striker. 1 Tim. iii. 3. Wing, cartnave, and bushel, peck, strike, ready at hand. Tusser's Husbandry. He thought with his staff to have struck the striker. Sandys. The cunningest mariners were so conquered by the storm, as they thought it best with stricken sails to yield to be governed by it.

Sidney.

That shall I shew as sure as hound The stricken deer doth challenge by the bleeding Spenser.

wound. Didst thou not see a bleeding hind, Whose right haunch earst my stedfast arrows strake! Id.

The drums presently striking up a march, they plucked up their ensigns, and forward they go.

Knolles.

Id.

The admiral galley, wherein the emperor was,
struck upon a sand, and there stuck fast.
To strike at me upon his misconstruction,
It pleased the king
When he tript me behind. Shakspeare. King Lear.
The Windsor bell hath struck twelve. Shakspeare.
How many nobles then would hold their places,
That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!
Id. Henry IV.

He that is stricken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

Shakspeare. Strike up the drums, and let the tongue of war Plead for our interest, and our being here. Id. The king

Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen
Well struck in years; fair, and not jealous. Id.
Deliver Helen, and all damage else
Shall be struck off. Id. Troilus and Cressida.
Cæsar, 'tis strucken eight.
Shakspeare.

I'd rather chop this hand off at a blow,
And with the other fling it at thy face,
Than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee.

Id.

Holding a ring by a thread in a glass, tell him that holdeth it, it shall strike so many times against the side of the glass, and no more. Id. Natural History.

Parker and Vaughan, having had a controversy touching certain arms, were appointed to run some courses, when Parker was stricken into the mouth at the first course. Bacon.

Though the earl of Ulster was of greater power than any other subject in Ireland, yet was he so far stricken in vears as that he was unable to manage the martial affairs Davies.

The striker must be dense, and in its best velocity. Digby.

These men are fortune's jewels, moulded bright, Brought forth with their own fire and light; If I her vulgar stone for either took, Out of myself it must be struck.

Waving wide her myrtle wand,

Cowley.

Deep thoughts will often suspend the sense; se far that about a man clocks may strike, and bells ring, which he takes no notice of. Greu.

They catch at every shadow of relief, strike in at a venture with the next companion, and, so the dead commodity be taken off, care not who be the chapNorris.

man.

Those who, by the prerogative of their age, should frown youth into sobriety, imitate and strike in with them, and are really vitious that they may be thought young. South.

When any wilful sin stands charged on our account, it will not be struck off till we forsake and turn away from it. Kettleworth,

In this plain was the last general rendezvous of mankind; and from thence they were broken into companies, and dispersed; the several successive generations, like the waves of the sea, over-reaching one another, and striking out farther and farther upon the land. Burnet's Theory. A mass of water would be struck off and separate from the rest, and tossed through the air like a flying

Though they the lines on golden anvils beat, It looks as if they struck them at a heat. Tate. His virtues render our assembly awful, They strike with something like religious fear. Addison's Cata. Then do not strike him dead with a denial, But hold him up in life.

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He immediately struck in with them; but described this march to the temple with so much hor rour that he shivered every joint. Id. Freeholder.

It struck on a sudden into such reputation, that it scorns any longer to sculk, but owns itself publickly. Government of the Tongue.

Nice works of art strike and surprise us most upon the first view; but, the better we are acquainted with them, the less we wonder.

Atterbury. gold and silver, Constantius sent to Chilperick. Some very rare coins, struck of a pound weight of

Arbuthnot.

The interest of our kingdom is ready to strike to that of your poorest fishing towns: it is hard you will not accept our services. Swift.

STRIKING, Sometimes called pithing of an mals, in rural economy, is a method of suddenly slaughtering or killing them for domestic pur poses, by the use of a small sharp spear-pointed knife struck in so as to divide the spinal mar row, instead of the more protracted and cruel practice of knocking them on the heads, and breaking and mashing the parts by means of the hammer-headed axe, as is generally the custom, to the great danger of the operator, and the disgust of the spectator. It is desirable, on several accounts, that this sudden mode of killing neat cattle, and other sorts of animals, by striking into and dividing this vital part, should become the common one; and especially as removing the apparent cruelty, and lessening the sufferings of them more than in the other or ordinary practice. This method, which has long been universal, in a great measure, on the continent, especially in Portugal, Spain, and some other parts, as well as in some of the West Indian islands in our possession, has, within these few years, been tried in this country, in some instances, with

complete success; and the flesh of the beasts so killed has been found equally good, if not better, than that of those slaughtered in the usual man

ner.

All accidents and bruises are avoided, which not uncommonly take place in forcing them into a proper situation and position for receiving the stroke or blow, when they are to be knocked down and killed in that way.

It has been stated, by the writer of the Report of the Agriculture of Shropshire, that a butcher in Lincolnshire practised this mode several years ago, in consequence of the representations made to him of it by captain Clarkson of the navy, who had seen animals so slaughtered for the use of our fleet when at Jamaica: and this practice obtains pretty generally on the Lincolnshire side or bank of the Humber river, as at Barton, and several other places. Calves, sheep, pigs, and other animals, are stated to have been killed in the same manner. Still the want of due precision in the manner of performing the operation has prevented, or thrown some doubt upon its utility, especially in so far as tenderness and humanity towards the animal are concerned; for though the beast may be managed completely by this mode, yet, without sufficient correctness and exactness in its execution, it is not so certain that its sense of feeling may be wholly destroyed. Indeed the contrary would seem to be the case, from the ingenious enquiries and experimental trials of Dr. Du Gard of Shrewsbury, who has shown that, though the spinal marrow may be divided, the nerves that supply the organs of respiration and most of the senses remain uninjured. But if the division be made sufficiently high up towards the cavity of the skull, so as to separate the medullary substance above the origin of the nerves which supply the diaphragm, it would appear, from the equally ingenious and correct experiments of others, as Hunter, Home, &c., that the animals may instantly be killed in the most certain and effectual manner; and that, by performing this operation in the same way, it will be attended with constant and perfect success. It is not improbable, indeed, that an instrument might be contrived by means of a strong spring, somewhat in the manner of that used in cupping, but only with one blade, that might, on being properly applied, force itself suddenly into the brain even, and thus instantly complete the business; or the operation might probably be performed in an equally complete, convenient, and more expeditious manner, by the discharge of a small pistol, loaded in some proper way this purpose, and suitably directed.

for

STRING, n. s. & v. a. Saxon string; Belg. STRING'ED, adj. streng; Dan. stringhe; STRING HALT, n.s. Lat. stringo. A slender STRING LESS, adj. rope or cord; any slenSTRING'Y. der and flexible band; a musical chord; small fibre ; any thing connected by a band; the line of a bow: to have two strings to one's bow,' is to have two expedients or resources to string is to furnish with or file on a string: to tune or fit up a stringed instrument; string-halt is defined below: the adjective follows the sense of the noun substantive.

Praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Paulms.

Their priests pray by their beads, having a string with a hundred of nutshells upon it; and the repeating of certain words with them they account meritorious. Stilling fleet.

Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.

Dryden. In pulling broom up, the least strings left behind will Mortimer's Husbandry. grow. A plain Indian fan, made of the small stringy parts Grew. of roots spread out in a round flat form. When rudely touched, ungrateful to the sense, The string that jars With pleasure feels the master's flying fingers, Swells into harmony, and charms the hearers.

Rowe.

I have caught two of these dark undermining vermin, and intend to make a string of them, in order to hang them up in one of my papers. Addison's Spectator. By the appearance they make in marble, there is not one string instrument that seems comparable to Addison. our violins.

That not a mountain rears its head unsung.
Here the muse so oft her harp has strung,

Id.

own nature.

Watts.

They stript Joseph out of his coat.

Gen. xxxvii. 23. 1 Sam. xix. 24.

He stript off his cloaths. They began to strip her of her cloaths when I came in among them. Sidney. The apostle, in exhorting men to contentment, although they have in this world no more than bare food and raiment, giveth us to understand that those are even the lowest of things necessary; that if we should be stript of all these things, without which we might possibly be, yet these must be left. Hooker. His unkindness,

That stript her from his benediction, turned her
To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights
To his doghearted daughters: these things sting
him.
Shakspeare.

Scarce credible it is how soon they were stript and laid naked on the ground.

Now this curious built Phæacian ship, Returning from her convoy, I will strip

Of all her fleeting matter.

Hayward.

Chapman.

We strip and divest ourselves of our own will, and give ourselves entirely up to the will of God.

Hadst thou not committed

Duppa.

STRIPE, n. s. Belg. strepe; Dan. stribe. A lineary variation of color; a streak. This seems to be the original notion of the word: a shred of different color: a weal or discoloration by a lash: hence a lash; a blow.

Gardeners may have three roots, among an bu dred, that are rare, as purple and carnation of veral stripes.

Bacon.

A body cannot be so torn with stripes, as a mind with remembrance of wicked actions. Hayward.

To those that are yet within the reach of the stripes and reproofs of their own conscience, I would address that they would not seek to remove themselves from that wholesome discipline.

Decay of Piety.

One of the most valuable trimmings of their cloaths was a long stripe sowed upon the garment, called latus clavus. Arbuthnot.

Cruelty marked him with inglorious stripes.

Thomson.

STRIP LING, n. s. Probably from Strip, a shred. A youth; one in the state of adolescence; a slender young man.

"Thwart the lane,

He, with two striplings, lads more like to run
The country base than to commit such slaughter,

Made good the passage. Shakspeare. Cymbeline.
Now a stripling cherub he appears,
Not of the prime, yet such as in his face
Youth smiled celestial. Milton's Paradise Let
Compositions on any important subjects are not
matters to be wrung from poor striplings; like blood
out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit.
Id. On Education.
As when young striplings whip the top for sport,
On the smooth pavement of an empty court,
The wooden engine whirls.

Dryden's Eneid. As every particular member of the body is no rished with a several qualified juice, so children and striplings, old men and young men, must have divers

diets.

Arbuthnot on Aliments.

STRIVE, v. n. Pret. I strove, anciently I strived; part. pass. striven. Sax. rend; Belg. streven; Teut. streben; Fr. estriver. To struggle; labor; make an effort; contest; vie; emulate.

Strive for the truth unto death. Ecclus iv. 28. Why dost thou strive against him?

Job xxxiii. 13.

Charge them that they strive not about words, to no profit. 2 Timothy ii. 14. Many brave young minds have, through hearing the praises and eulogies of worthy men, been stirred up to affect the like commendations, and so strive to the like deserts. Spenser.

The immutability of God they strive unto, by working after one and the same manner.

Hooker.

Do as adversaries do in law; Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Shakspeart. Was it for this that Rome's best blood he spilt, With so much falsehood, so much guilt? Was it for this that his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after Jove?

Now private pity strove with publick hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.

Cowley,

Denham.