Chapter 1644

2. That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suctionpipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.

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Strain"ing , a. & n. from Strain .

Straining piece (Arch.) , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust . of Queen-post .

Straint <Xpage=1422>

Straint (?) , n. [OF. estrainte , estreinte , F. \'82trainte . See 2nd Strain .] Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. [Obs.]

Spenser.

Strait <Xpage=1422>

Strait (?) , a. A variant of Straight . [Obs.]

Strait <Xpage=1422>

Strait (?) , a. [ Compar. Straiter (?) ; superl. Straitest .] [OE. straight , streyt , streit , OF. estreit , estroit , F. \'82troit , from L. strictus drawn together, close, tight, p.p. of stringere to draw tight. See 2nd Strait , and cf. Strict .] 1. Narrow; not broad.

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Matt. vii. 14.

Too strait and low our cottage doors. Emerson.

2. Tight; close; closely fitting.

Shak.

3. Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] "A strait degree of favor."

Sir P. Sidney.

4. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

Some certain edicts and some strait decrees. Shak.

The straitest sect of our religion. Acts xxvi. 5 (Rev. Ver.).

5. Difficult; distressful; straited.

To make your strait circumstances yet straiter . Secker.

6. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.]

I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait , And so ingrateful, you deny me that. Shak.

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Strait (?) , adv. Strictly; rigorously. [Obs.]

Shak.

Strait <Xpage=1422>

Strait , n. ; pl. Straits (#) . [OE. straight , streit , OF. estreit , estroit . See Strait , a .] 1. A narrow pass or passage.

He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a broad gate all built of beaten gold. Spenser.

Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast. Shak.

2. Specifically: (Geog.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait , or straits , of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait , or straits , of Mackinaw.

We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait , though it be fifteen miles broad. De Foe.

3. A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.]

A dark strait of barren land. Tennyson.

4. Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits .

For I am in a strait betwixt two. Phil. i. 23.

Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever. South.

Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts. Broome.

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Strait , v. t. To put to difficulties. [Obs.]

Shak.

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Strait"en (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Straitened (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Straitening .] 1. To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.

Waters, when straitened , as at the falls of bridges, give a roaring noise. Bacon.

In narrow circuit, straitened by a foe. Milton.

2. To make tense, or tight; to tighten.

They straiten at each end the cord. Pope.

3. To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances.

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Strait"-hand`ed (?) , a. Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly. [R.] -- Strait"-hand`ed*ness , n. [R.]

Strait-jacket <Xpage=1422>

Strait"-jack`et (?) , n. A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back.

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Strait"-laced` (?) , a. 1. Bound with stays.

Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced . Locke.

2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.]

Fuller.

3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

Straitly <Xpage=1422>

Strait"ly , adv. 1. In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.

Mark i. 43.

2. Closely; intimately. [Obs.]

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Strait"ness , n. The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitness of their circumstances .

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Strait"-waist`coat (?) , n. Same as Strait-jacket .

Strake <Xpage=1422>

Strake (?) , obs. imp. of Strike .

Spenser.

Strake <Xpage=1422>

Strake , n. [See Streak .] 1. A streak. [Obs.] Spenser ."White strake ." Gen. xxx. 37 .

2. An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces.

3. (Shipbuilding) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak.

&hand; The planks or plates next the keel are called the garboard strakes ; the next, or the heavy strakes at the bilge, are the bilge strakes ; the next, from the water line to the lower port sill, the wales ; and the upper parts of the sides, the sheer strakes .

4. (Mining) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.

Strale <Xpage=1422>

Strale (?) , n. Pupil of the eye. [Prov. Eng.]

Stram <Xpage=1422>

Stram (?) , v. t. [Cf. LG. strammen to strain, straiten, stretch, D. stram strained, tight, G. stramm .] To spring or recoil with violence. [Prov. Eng.]

Stram <Xpage=1422>

Stram , v. t. To dash down; to beat. [Prov. Eng.]

Stramash <Xpage=1422>

Stram"ash (?) , v. t. [Cf. Stramazoun .] To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

Stramash <Xpage=1422>

Stram"ash , n. A turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

Barham.

Stramazoun <Xpage=1422>

Stram"a*zoun (?) , n. [F. estrama\'87on , It. stramazzone .] A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword. [Obs.]

B. Jonson.

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Stra*min"e*ous (?) , a. [L. stramineus , fr. stramen straw, fr. sternere , stratum , to spread out, to strew.] 1. Strawy; consisting of straw.

Robinson.

2. Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.

Burton.

Stramonium <Xpage=1422>

Stra*mo"ni*um (?) , n. [NL.; Cf. F. stramoine .] (Bot.) A poisonous plant ( Datura Stramonium ); stinkweed. See Datura , and Jamestown weed .

Stramony <Xpage=1422>

Stram"o*ny (?) , n. (Bot.) Stramonium.

Strand <Xpage=1422>

Strand (?) , n. [Probably fr. D. streen a skein; akin to G. str\'84hne a skein, lock of hair, strand of a rope.] One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

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Strand , v. t. To break a strand of (a rope).

Strand <Xpage=1422>

Strand , n. [AS. strand ; akin to D., G., Sw., & Dan. strand , Icel. str\'94nd .] The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.

Chaucer.

Strand birds . (Zo\'94l.) See Shore birds , under Shore . -- Strand plover (Zo\'94l.) , a black-bellied plover. See Illust . of Plover . -- Strand wolf (Zo\'94l.) , the brown hyena.

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Strand , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stranded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stranding .] To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship .

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Strand (?) , v. i. To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water .

Strang <Xpage=1422>

Strang (?) , a. [See Strong .] Strong. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Halliwell.

Strange <Xpage=1422>

Strange (?) , a. [ Compar. Stranger (?) ; superl. Strangest (?) .] [OE. estrange , F. \'82trange , fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra , and cf. Estrange , Extraneous .] 1. Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands."

Chaucer.

One of the strange queen's lords. Shak.

I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. Ascham.

2. Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.

So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights. Sir J. Davies.

3. Not before known, heard, or seen; new.

Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you. Shak.

4. Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. "He is sick of a strange fever."

Shak.

Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me. Milton.

5. Reserved; distant in deportment.

Shak.

She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee. Hawthorne.

6. Backward; slow. [Obs.]

Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In favoring the cause. Beau. & Fl.

7. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange . Shak.

&hand; Strange is often used as an exclamation.

Strange ! what extremes should thus preserve the snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below. Waller.

Strange sail (Naut.) , an unknown vessel. -- Strange woman (Script.) , a harlot. Prov. v. 3. -- To make it strange . (a) To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it . Shak . (b) To make it a matter of difficulty. [Obs.] Chaucer . -- To make strange , To make one's self strange . (a) To profess ignorance or astonishment . (b) To assume the character of a stranger . Gen. xlii. 7.

Syn. -- Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing; marvelous; unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer; eccentric.

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Strange , adv. Strangely. [Obs.]

Most strange , but yet most truly, will I speak. Shak.

Strange <Xpage=1422>

Strange , v. t. To alienate; to estrange. [Obs.]

Strange <Xpage=1422>

Strange , v. i. 1. To be estranged or alienated. [Obs.]

2. To wonder; to be astonished. [Obs.]

Glanvill.

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Strange"ly , adv. 1. As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. [Obs.]

Shak.

2. In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly.

You all look strangely on me. Shak.

I do in justice charge thee . . . That thou commend it strangely to some place Where chance may nurse or end it. Shak.

3. In a strange manner; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder; wonderfully.

How strangely active are the arts of peace! Dryden.

It would strangely delight you to see with what spirit he converses. Law.

Strangeness <Xpage=1422>

Strange"ness , n. The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).

Stranger <Xpage=1422>

Stran"ger (?) , n. [OF. estrangier , F. \'82tranger . See Strange .] 1. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically: --

(a) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.

I am a most poor woman and a stranger , Born out of your dominions. Shak.

(b) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.

(c) One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me ; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.

Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, And strangers to the sun yet ripen here. Granville.

My child is yet a stranger in the world. Shak.

I was no stranger to the original. Dryden.

2. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.

To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger . Milton.

3. (Law) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers , a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy .

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Stran"ger , v. t. To estrange; to alienate. [Obs.]

Shak.

Strangle <Xpage=1422>

Stran"gle (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Strangled (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Strangling (?) .] [OF. estrangler , F. \'82trangler , L. strangulare , Gr. <?/, <?/, fr. <?/ a halter; and perhaps akin to E. string , n. Cf. Strain , String .] 1. To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.

Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself. Ayliffe.

2. To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.

Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . . And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? Shak.

3. To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress. " Strangle such thoughts."

Shak.

Strangle <Xpage=1422>

Stran"gle , v. i. To be strangled, or suffocated.

Strangleable <Xpage=1422>

Stran"gle*a*ble (?) , a. Capable of being strangled. [R.]

Chesterfield.

Strangler <Xpage=1422>

Stran"gler (?) , n. One who, or that which, strangles. "The very strangler of their amity."

Shak.

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Strangles <Xpage=1423>

Stran"gles (?) , n. A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.

Strangulate <Xpage=1423>

Stran"gu*late (?) , a. (Bot.) Strangulated.

Strangulated <Xpage=1423>

Stran"gu*la`ted (?) , a. 1. (Med.) Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia .

2. (Bot.) Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted.

Strangulated hernia . (Med.) See under Hernia .

Strangulation <Xpage=1423>

Stran"gu*la`tion (?) , n. [L. strangulatio : cf. F. strangulation . See Strangle .] 1. The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.

2. (Med.) Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.

Strangurious <Xpage=1423>

Stran*gu"ri*ous (?) , a. [L. stranguriosus .] (Med.) Of or pertaining to strangury.

Cheyne.

Strangury <Xpage=1423>

Stran"gu*ry (?) , n. [L. stranguria , Gr. <?/; <?/, <?/, a drop + <?/ to make water, <?/ urine: cf. F. strangurie . See Strangle , and Urine .] 1. (Med.) A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.

2. (Bot.) A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it.

Strany <Xpage=1423>

Stra"ny (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) The guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]

Strap <Xpage=1423>

Strap (?) , n. [OE. strope , AS. stropp , L. stroppus , struppus , perhaps fr. Gr. <?/ a band or cord, fr. <?/ to twist, to turn (cf. Strophe ). Cf. Strop a strap, a piece of rope.] 1. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.

A lively cobbler that . . . had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap . Addison.

2. Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap , shawl strap , stirrup strap .

3. A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.

4. A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass. Specifically: --

(a) (Carp. & Mach.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.

(b) (Naut.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.

5. (Bot.) (a) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy. (b) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.

6. A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder .