STOPPED — STRATOCRACY
STOPPED, pp. Closed; obstructed; hindered from proceeding; impeded; intercepted.
1. One who stops, closes, shuts or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.NWAD STOPPER.2
2. In seamens language, a short piece of rope used for making something fast, as the anchor or cables. Stoppers are also used to prevent the running rigging from coming up, whilst the men are belaying it.NWAD STOPPER.3
STOPPER, v.t. To close with a stopper.
STOPPERED, pp. Closed with a stopper; as a stoppered retort.
STOPPING, ppr. Closing; shutting; obstructing; hindering from proceeding; ceasing to go or move; putting an end to; regulating the sounds of.
STOPPLE, n. That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; as a glass stopple; a cork stopple.
STORAGE, n. [from store.]
1. The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; or the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.NWAD STORAGE.2
2. The price charge or paid for keeping goods in a store.NWAD STORAGE.3
STORAX, n. [L.] A plant or tree; also, a resinous and odoriferous drug brought from Turkey, but generally adulterated. It imparts to water a yellow color, and has been deemed a resolvent.
Storax is a solid balsam, either in red tears, or in large cakes, brittle, but soft to the touch, and of a reddish brown color. It is obtained from the Styrax officinalis, a tree which grows in the Levant. Liquid storax, or styrax, is a liquid or semifluid balsam, said to be obtained from the Liquidamber styraciflua, a tree which grows in Virginia. It is greenish, of an aromatic taste, and agreeable smell.NWAD STORAX.2
1. A large number; as a store of years.NWAD STORE.2
2. A large quantity; great plenty; abundance; as a store of wheat or provisions.NWAD STORE.3
3. A stock provided; a large quantity for supply; ample abundance. The troops have great stores of provisions and ammunition. The ships have stores for a long voyage. [This the present usual acceptation of the word, and in this sense the plural, stores, is commonly used. When applied to a single article of supply, it is still sometimes used in the singular; as a good store of wine or of bread.]NWAD STORE.4
4. Quantity accumulated; fund; abundance; as stores of knowledge.NWAD STORE.5
5. A storehouse; a magazine; a warehouse. Nothing can be more convenient than the stores on Central wharf in Boston.NWAD STORE.6
6. In the United States, shops for the sale of goods of any kind, by wholesale or retail, are often called stores.NWAD STORE.7
In store, in a state of accumulation, in a literal sense; hence, in a state of preparation for supply; in a state of readiness. Happiness is laid up in store for the righteous; misery is in store for the wicked.NWAD STORE.8
STORE, a. Hoarded; laid up; as store treasure. [Not in use.]
STORE, v.t.
1. To furnish; to supply; to replenish.NWAD STORE.11
Wise Plato said the world with men was stord.NWAD STORE.12
Her mind with thousand virtues stord.NWAD STORE.13
2. To stock against a future time; as a garrison well stored with provisions.NWAD STORE.14
One having stored a pond of four acres with carp, tench and other fish--NWAD STORE.15
3. To reposit in a store or warehouse for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.NWAD STORE.16
1. Furnished; supplied.NWAD STORED.2
2. Laid up in store; warehoused.NWAD STORED.3
STORE-HOUSE, n. [store and house.]
1. A building for keeping grain or goods of any kind; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.NWAD STORE-HOUSE.2
Joseph opened all the store-houses and sold to the Egyptians. Genesis 41:56.NWAD STORE-HOUSE.3
2. A repository.NWAD STORE-HOUSE.4
The Scripture of God is a store-house abounding with inestimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge.NWAD STORE-HOUSE.5
3. A great mass reposited. [Not in use.]NWAD STORE-HOUSE.6
STORE-KEEPER, n. [store and keeper.] A man who has the care of a store.
STORER, n. One who lays op or forms a store.
STORIAL, a. [from story.] Historical. [Not in use.]
STORIED, a. [from story.]
1. Furnished with stories; adorned with historical paintings.NWAD STORIED.2
Some greedy minion or imperious wife, the trophied arches, storied halls, invade.NWAD STORIED.3
2. Related in story; told or recited in history.NWAD STORIED.4
STORIER, n. A relater of stories; a historian. [Not in use.]
STORIFY, v.t. To form or tell stories. [Not in use.]
STORK, n. A large fowl of the genus Ardea or Heron kind.
STORK’S-BILL, n. A plant of the genus Geranium.
STORM, n. [G., to disturb. L. The primary sense of storm is a rushing, raging or violent agitation.]
1. A violent wind; a tempest. Thus a storm of wind, is correct language, as the proper sense of the word is rushing, violence. It has primarily no reference to a fall of rain or snow. But as a violent wind is often attended with rain or snow, the word storm has come to be used, most improperly, for a fall of rain or snow without wind.NWAD STORM.2
O beat those storms, and roll the seas in vain.NWAD STORM.3
2. A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter ad take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates and the like.NWAD STORM.4
3. Violent civil or political commotion; sedition; insurrection; also, clamor; tumult; disturbance of the public peace.NWAD STORM.5
I will stir up in England some black storms.NWAD STORM.6
Her sister began to scold and raise up such a storm--NWAD STORM.7
4. Affliction; calamity; distress; adversity.NWAD STORM.8
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.NWAD STORM.9
5. Violence; vehemence; tumultuous force.NWAD STORM.10
STORM, v.t. To assault; to attack and attempt to take by scaling the walls, forcing gates or breaches and the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
STORM, v.i.
1. To raise a tempest.NWAD STORM.13
2. To blow with violence; impersonally; as, it storms.NWAD STORM.14
3. To rage; to be in a violent agitation of passion; to fume. The master storms.NWAD STORM.15
STORM-BEAT, a. [storm and beat.] Beaten or impaired by storms.
STORMED, pp. Assaulted by violence.
STORMINESS, n. Tempestuousness; the state of being agitated by violent winds.
STORMING, ppr. Attacking with violent force; raging.
1. Tempestuous; agitated with furious winds; boisterous; as a stormy season; a stormy day or week.NWAD STORMY.2
2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as a stormy sound; stormy shocks.NWAD STORMY.3
3. Violent; passionate. [Unusual.]NWAD STORMY.4
STORY, n. [L., Gr.]
1. A verbal narration or recital of a series of facts or incidents. WE observe in children a strong passion for hearing stories.NWAD STORY.2
2. A written narrative of a series of facts or events. There is probably on record no story more interesting than that of Joseph in Genesis.NWAD STORY.3
3. History; a written narrative or account of past transactions, whether relating to nations or individuals.NWAD STORY.4
The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story.NWAD STORY.5
4. Petty tale; relation of a single incident or of trifling incidents.NWAD STORY.6
5. A trifling tale; a fiction; a fable; as the story of a fairy. In popular usage, story is sometimes a softer term for a lie.NWAD STORY.7
6. A loft; a floor; or a set of rooms on the same floor or level. A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another; as a story of nine or ten feet elevation. Hence each floor terminating the space is called a story; as a house of one story, of two stories, of five stories. The farm houses in New England have usually two stories; the houses in Paris have usually five stories; a few have more; those in London four. But in the United States the floor next the ground is the first story; in France and England, the first floor or story, is the second from the ground.NWAD STORY.8
STORY, v.t.
1. To tell in historical relation; to narrate.NWAD STORY.10
How worthy he is, I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.NWAD STORY.11
It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.NWAD STORY.12
[This verb is chiefly used in the passive participle.]NWAD STORY.13
2. To range one under another. [Little used.]NWAD STORY.14
1. One who tells stories; a narrator of a series of incidents; as an amusing story-teller.NWAD STORY-TELLER.2
2. A historian; in contempt.NWAD STORY-TELLER.3
3. One who tells fictitious stories.NWAD STORY-TELLER.4
1. A horse. [Not in use.]NWAD STOT.2
2. A young bullock or steer. [Not in use or local.]NWAD STOT.3
STOTE. [See Stoat.]
1. To be in pain or sorrow. [Not in use.]NWAD STOUND.2
2. Stunned. [Not in use. See Astound.]NWAD STOUND.3
STOUND, n.
1. Sorrow; grief. [Not in use.]NWAD STOUND.5
2. A shooting pain. [Not in use.]NWAD STOUND.6
3. Noise. [Not in use.]NWAD STOUND.7
4. Astonishment; amazement. [Not in use.]NWAD STOUND.8
5. Hour; time; season. [Not in use.]NWAD STOUND.9
6. A vessel to put small beer in.NWAD STOUND.10
STOUR, n. A battle or tumult. Stour, signifies a river, as in Sturbridge.
1. Strong; lusty.NWAD STOUT.2
A stouter champion never handled sword.NWAD STOUT.3
2. Bold; intrepid; valiant; brave.NWAD STOUT.4
He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man.NWAD STOUT.5
3. Large; bulky. [A popular use of the word.]NWAD STOUT.6
4. Proud; resolute; obstinate.NWAD STOUT.7
The lords all stand to clear their cause, most resolutely stout.NWAD STOUT.8
5. Strong; firm; as a stout vessel.NWAD STOUT.9
STOUT, n. A cant name for strong beer.
STOUTLY, adv. Lustily; boldly; obstinately. He stoutly defended himself.
1. Strength; bulk.NWAD STOUTNESS.2
2. Boldness; fortitude.NWAD STOUTNESS.3
3. Obstinacy; stubbornness.NWAD STOUTNESS.4
STOVE, n. [G., a bagnio or hot house; a room; a stove. This primarily is merely a room, a place. See Stow.]
1. A hot house; a house or room artificially warmed.NWAD STOVE.2
2. A small box with an iron pan, used for holding coals to warm the feet. It is a bad practice for young persons to accustom themselves to sit with a warm stove under the feet.NWAD STOVE.3
3. An iron box, with various apartments in it for cooking; a culinary utensil of various forms.NWAD STOVE.4
STOVE, v.t. To keep warm in a house or room by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees and myrtles.
STOVE, pret. of stave.
STOVER, n. [a contraction of estover.] Fodder for cattle; primarily, fodder from threshed grain; but in New England, any kind of fodder from the barn or stack.
STOW, v.t. [G. L., to crowd, to stuff; the handle of a plow. The sense is to set or throw down, from the more general sense of throwing, driving.]
1. To place; to put in a suitable place or position; as, to stow bags, bales or casks in a ships hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. The word has reference to the placing of many thing, or of one thing among many, or of a mass of things.NWAD STOW.2
2. To lay up; to reposit.NWAD STOW.3
Stow in names, signifies place, as in Barstow.NWAD STOW.4
1. The act or operation of placing in a suitable position; or the suitable disposition of several things together. The stowage of a ships cargo to advantage requires no little skill. It is of great consequence to make good stowage. [This is the principal use of the word.]NWAD STOWAGE.2
2. Room for the reception of things to be reposited.NWAD STOWAGE.3
In every vessel there is stowage for immense treasures.NWAD STOWAGE.4
3. The state of being laid up. I am curious to have the plate and jewels in safe stowage.NWAD STOWAGE.5
4. Money paid for stowing goods. [Little used.]NWAD STOWAGE.6
STOWED, pp. Placed in due position or order; reposited.
STOWING, ppr. Placing in due position; disposing in good order.
STRABISM, n. [L., a squint-eyed person.] A squinting; the act or habit of looking asquint.
STRADDLE, v.i. To part the legs wide; to stand or walk with the legs far apart.
STRADDLE, v.t. To place one leg on one side and the other on the other of any thing; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.
STRADDLING, ppr. Standing or walking with the legs far apart; placing one leg on one side and the other on the other.
STRAGGLE, v.i. stragl. [This word seems to be formed on the root of stray. G., to pass, to migrate.]
1. To wander from the direct course or way; to rove. When troops are on the march, let not the men straggle.NWAD STRAGGLE.2
2. To wander at large without an certain direction or object; to ramble.NWAD STRAGGLE.3
The wolf spied a straggling kid.NWAD STRAGGLE.4
3. To exuberate; to shoot too far in growth. Prune the straggling branches of the hedge.NWAD STRAGGLE.5
4. To be dispersed; to be apart from any main body.NWAD STRAGGLE.6
They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.NWAD STRAGGLE.7
1. A wanderer; a rover; one that departs from the direct or proper course; one that rambles without any settled direction.NWAD STRAGGLER.2
2. A vagabond; a wandering shiftless fellow.NWAD STRAGGLER.3
3. Something that shoots beyond the rest or too far.NWAD STRAGGLER.4
4. Something that stands by itself.NWAD STRAGGLER.5
STRAGGLING, ppr. Wandering; roving; rambling; being in a separate position.
STRAHLSTEIN, n. [G., a beam or gleam, and stone. Another name of actinolite.]
STRAIGHT, a. [L., formed from the root of reach, stretch, right. It is customary to write straight, for direct or right, and strait, for narrow, but this is a practice wholly arbitrary, both being the same word. Strait we use in the sense in which it is used in the south of Europe. Both sense proceed from stretching, straining.]
1. Right, in a mathematical sense; direct; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; not deviating or crooked; as a straight line; a straight course; a straight piece of timber.NWAD STRAIGHT.2
2. Narrow; close; tight; as a straight garment. [See Strait, as it is generally written.]NWAD STRAIGHT.3
3. Upright; according with justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness.NWAD STRAIGHT.4
STRAIGHT, adv. Immediately; directly; in the shortest time.
I know thy generous temper well; fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, it straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze.NWAD STRAIGHT.6
1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.NWAD STRAIGHTEN.2
2. To make narrow, tense or close; to tighten.NWAD STRAIGHTEN.3
3. To reduce to difficulties or distress.NWAD STRAIGHTEN.4
STRAIGHTENED, pp. Made straight; made narrow.
STRAIGHTENER, n. He or that which straightens.
STRAIGHTENING, ppr. Making straight or narrow.
1. In a right line; not crookedly.NWAD STRAIGHTLY.2
2. Tightly; closely.NWAD STRAIGHTLY.3
1. The quality or state of being straight; rectitude.NWAD STRAIGHTNESS.2
2. Narrowness; tension; tightness.NWAD STRAIGHTNESS.3
STRAIGHTWAY, adv. [straight and way.] Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.
He took the damsel by the hand, and said to her, Talitha cumi--and straightway the damsel arose. Mark 5:42. [Straightways is obsolete.]NWAD STRAIGHTWAY.2
STRAIKS, n. Strong plates of iron on the circumference of a cannon wheel over the joints of the fellies.
STRAIN, v.t. [L. This word retains its original signification, to stretch.]
1. To stretch; to draw with force; to extend with great effort; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the chords of an instrument.NWAD STRAIN.2
2. To cause to draw with force, or with excess of exertion; to injure by pressing with too much effort. He strained this horses or his oxen by overloading them.NWAD STRAIN.3
3. To stretch violently or by violent exertion; as, to strain the arm or the muscles.NWAD STRAIN.4
4. To put to the utmost strength. Men in desperate cases will strain themselves for relief.NWAD STRAIN.5
5. To press or cause to pass through some porous substance; to purify or separate from extraneous matter by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk. Water may be stained through sand.NWAD STRAIN.6
6. To sprain; to injure by drawing or stretching.NWAD STRAIN.7
Prudes decayd about may tack, strain their necks with looking back.NWAD STRAIN.8
7. To make tighter; to cause to bind closer.NWAD STRAIN.9
To strain his fetters with a stricter care.NWAD STRAIN.10
8. To force; to constrain; to make uneasy or unnatural.NWAD STRAIN.11
His mirth is forced and strained.NWAD STRAIN.12
STRAIN, v.i.
1. To make violent efforts.NWAD STRAIN.14
To build his fortune I will strain a little.NWAD STRAIN.15
Straining with too weak a wing.NWAD STRAIN.16
2. To be filtered. Water straining through sand becomes pure.NWAD STRAIN.17
STRAIN, n.
1. A violent effort; a stretching or exertion of the limbs or muscles, or of any thing else.NWAD STRAIN.19
2. An injury by excessive exertion, drawing or stretching.NWAD STRAIN.20
3. Style; continued manner of speaking or writing; as the genius and strain of the book of Proverbs. So we say, poetic strains, lofty strains.NWAD STRAIN.21
4. Song; note; sound; or a particular part of a tune.NWAD STRAIN.22
Their heavenly harps a lower strain began.NWAD STRAIN.23
5. Turn; tendency; inborn disposition.NWAD STRAIN.24
Because heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements.NWAD STRAIN.25
6. Manner of speech or action.NWAD STRAIN.26
Such take too high a strain at first.NWAD STRAIN.27
7. Race; generation; descent.NWAD STRAIN.28
He is of a noble strain. [Not in use.]NWAD STRAIN.29
8. Hereditary disposition.NWAD STRAIN.30
Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which propagated, spoil the strain of a nation. [Not in use.]NWAD STRAIN.31
9. Rank; character. [Not in use.]NWAD STRAIN.32
STRAINABLE, a. Capable of being strained [Not in use.]
STRAINED, pp. Stretched; violently exerted; filtered.
STRAINER, n. That through which any liquid passes for purification; an instrument for filtration.
The lacteals of animal bodies are the strainers to separate the pure emulsion from its feces. [This doctrine is now questioned.]NWAD STRAINER.2
STRAINING, ppr. Stretching; exerting with violence; making great efforts; filtering.
STRAINING, n. The act of stretching; the act of filtering; filtration.
STRAINT, n. A violent stretching or tension. [Not in use.]
STRAIT, a. [See Straight.]
1. Narrow; close; not broad.NWAD STRAIT.2
Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it. Matthew 7:14.NWAD STRAIT.3
2. Close; intimate; as a strait degree of favor.NWAD STRAIT.4
3. Strict; rigorous.NWAD STRAIT.5
He now, forsooth, takes on him to reform some certain edicts, and some strait decrees.NWAD STRAIT.6
4. Difficult; distressful.NWAD STRAIT.7
5. Straight; not crooked.NWAD STRAIT.8
STRAIT, n. [See Straight.]
1. A narrow pass or passage, either in a mountain or in the ocean, between continents or other portions of land; as the straits of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the straits of Dover. [In this sense, the plural is more generally used than the singular, and often without any apparent reason or propriety.]NWAD STRAIT.10
2. Distress; difficulty; distressing necessity; formerly written streight. [Used either in the singular or plural.]NWAD STRAIT.11
Let no man who owns a providence, become desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.NWAD STRAIT.12
Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.NWAD STRAIT.13
STRAIT, v.t. To put to difficulties. [Not in use.]
1. To make narrow.NWAD STRAITEN.2
In narrow circuit, straitend by a foe.NWAD STRAITEN.3
2. To contract; to confine; as, to straiten the British commerce.NWAD STRAITEN.4
3. To make tense or tight; as, to straiten a cord.NWAD STRAITEN.5
4. To distress; to perplex; to press with poverty or other necessity; as, a man straitened in his circumstances.NWAD STRAITEN.6
5. To press by want of sufficient room.NWAD STRAITEN.7
Waters when straitened, as at the falls of bridges, give a roaring noise.NWAD STRAITEN.8
STRAIT-HANDED, a. [strait and hand.] Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly. [Not much used.]
1. Griped with stays.NWAD STRAIT-LACED.2
We have few well-shaped that are strait-laced.NWAD STRAIT-LACED.3
2. Stiff; constrained. Hence,NWAD STRAIT-LACED.4
3. Rigid in opinion; strict.NWAD STRAIT-LACED.5
1. Narrowly; closely.NWAD STRAITLY.2
2. Strictly; rigorously. [For this, strictly is now used.]NWAD STRAITLY.3
3. Closely; intimately.NWAD STRAITLY.4
1. Narrowness; as the straitness of a place; straitness of mind; straitness of circumstances.NWAD STRAITNESS.2
2. Strictness; rigor; as the straitness of a man’s proceedings.NWAD STRAITNESS.3
3. Distress; difficulty; pressure from necessity of any kind, particularly from poverty.NWAD STRAITNESS.4
4. Want; scarcity; or rather narrowness; as the straitness of the conveniences of life.NWAD STRAITNESS.5
STRAIT-WAISTCOAT, STRAIT-JACKET, n. An apparatus to confine the limbs of a distracted person.
STRAKE, pret. of strike. [See Strike.]
STRAKE, n.
1. A streak. [Not used unless in reference to the range of planks in a ships side. See Streak.]NWAD STRAKE.3
2. A narrow board. [Not used.]NWAD STRAKE.4
3. The iron band of a wheel. [In the United States, this is called a band, or the tire of a wheel.]NWAD STRAKE.5
STRAM, v.i. To spread out the limbs; to sprawl. [Local and vulgar.]
STRAMASH, v.t. To strike, beat or bang; to break; to destroy. [Local and vulgar.]
1. Strawy; consisting of straw.NWAD STRAMINEOUS.2
2. Chaffy; like straw; light.NWAD STRAMINEOUS.3
1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean, or of a large lake, and perhaps of a navigable river. It is never used of the bank of a small river or pond. The Dutch on the Hudson apply it to a landing place; as the strand at Kingston.NWAD STRAND.2
2. One of the twists or parts of which a rope is composed.NWAD STRAND.3
STRAND, v.t.
1. To drive or run aground on the sea shore, as a ship.NWAD STRAND.5
2. To break one of the strands of a rope.NWAD STRAND.6
STRAND, v.i. To drift or be driven on shore; to run aground; as, a ship strands at high water.
1. Run ashore.NWAD STRANDED.2
2. Having a strand broken.NWAD STRANDED.3
STRANDING, ppr. Running ashore; breaking a strand.
1. Foreign; belonging to anther country.NWAD STRANGE.2
I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. [This sense is nearly obsolete.]NWAD STRANGE.3
2. Not domestic; belonging to others.NWAD STRANGE.4
So she impatient her own faults to see, turns from herself, and in strange things delights. [Nearly obsolete.]NWAD STRANGE.5
3. New; not before known, heard or seen. The former custom was familiar; the latter was new and strange to them. Hence,NWAD STRANGE.6
4. Wonderful; causing surprise; exciting curiosity. It is strange that men will not receive improvement, when it is shown to be improvement.NWAD STRANGE.7
Sated at length, ere long I might perceive strange alteration in me.NWAD STRANGE.8
5. Odd; unusual; irregular; not according to the common way.NWAD STRANGE.9
Hes strange and peevish.NWAD STRANGE.10
6. Remote. [Little used.]NWAD STRANGE.11
7. Uncommon; unusual.NWAD STRANGE.12
This made David to admire the law of god at that strange rate.NWAD STRANGE.13
8. Unacquainted.NWAD STRANGE.14
They were now at a gage, looking strange at one another.NWAD STRANGE.15
9. Strange is sometimes uttered by way of exclamation.NWAD STRANGE.16
Strange! What extremes should thus preserve the snow, high on the Alps, or in deep caves below.NWAD STRANGE.17
This is an elliptical expression for it is strange.NWAD STRANGE.18
STRANGE, v.t. To alienate; to estrange. [Not in use.]
STRANGE, v.i.
1. To wonder; to be astonished. [Not in use.]NWAD STRANGE.21
2. To be estranged or alienated. [Not in use.]NWAD STRANGE.22
1. With some relation to foreigners.NWAD STRANGELY.2
2. Wonderfully; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder.NWAD STRANGELY.3
How strangely active are the acts of peace.NWAD STRANGELY.4
It would strangely delight you to see with what spirit he converses.NWAD STRANGELY.5
1. Foreignness; the state of belonging to another country.NWAD STRANGENESS.2
If I will obey the gospel, no distance of place, no strangeness of country can make any man a stranger to me.NWAD STRANGENESS.3
2. Distance in behavior; reserve; coldness; forbidding manner.NWAD STRANGENESS.4
Will you not observe the strangeness of his alterd countenance?NWAD STRANGENESS.5
3. Remoteness from common manners or notions; uncouthness.NWAD STRANGENESS.6
Men worthier than himself here tend the savage strangeness he puts on.NWAD STRANGENESS.7
4. Alienation of mind; estrangement; mutual dislike.NWAD STRANGENESS.8
This might seem a means to continue a strangeness between two nations. [This sense is obsolete or little used.]NWAD STRANGENESS.9
5. Wonderfulness; the power of exciting surprise and wonder; uncommonness that raises wonder by novelty.NWAD STRANGENESS.10
This raised greater tumults in the hearts of men than the strangeness and seeming unreasonableness of all the former articles.NWAD STRANGENESS.11
1. A foreigner; one who belongs to another country. Paris and London are visited by strangers from all the countries of Europe.NWAD STRANGER.2
2. One of another town, city, state or province in the same country. The Commencements in American colleges are frequented by multitudes of strangers from the neighboring towns and states.NWAD STRANGER.3
3. One unknown. The gentleman is a stranger to me.NWAD STRANGER.4
4. One unacquainted.NWAD STRANGER.5
My child is yet a stranger to the world.NWAD STRANGER.6
I was no stranger to the original.NWAD STRANGER.7
5. A guest; a visitor.NWAD STRANGER.8
6. One not admitted to any communication or fellowship.NWAD STRANGER.9
Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, and strangers to the sun yet ripen here.NWAD STRANGER.10
7. In law, one not privy or party to an act.NWAD STRANGER.11
STRANGER, v.t. To estrange; to alienate. [Not in use.]
1. To choke; to suffocate; to destroy life by stopping respiration.NWAD STRANGLE.2
Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself.NWAD STRANGLE.3
2. To suppress; to hinder from birth or appearance.NWAD STRANGLE.4
STRANGLED, pp. Choked; suffocated; suppressed.
STRANGLER, n. One who strangles.
STRANGLES, n. Swellings in a horses throat.
STRANGLING, ppr. Choking; suffocating; suppressing.
STRANGLING, n. The act of destroying life by stopping respiration.
STRANGULATED, a. Compressed. A hernia or rupture is said to be strangulated, when it is so compressed as to cause dangerous symptoms.
1. The act of strangling; the act of destroying life by stopping respiration; suffocation.NWAD STRANGULATION.2
2. That kind of suffocation which is common to women in hysterics; also, the straitening or compression of the intestines in hernia.NWAD STRANGULATION.3
STRANGURY, n. [L., Gr., a drop, urine.] Literally, a discharge of urine by drops; a difficulty of discharging urine, attended with pain.
STRAP, n. [L. Strap and strop appear to be from stripping, and perhaps stripe also; all having resemblance to a strip of bark peeled from a tree.]
1. A long narrow slip of cloth or lether, of various forms and for various uses; as the strap of a shoe or boot; straps for fastening trunks or other baggage, for stretching limbs in surgery, etc.NWAD STRAP.2
2. In botany, the flat part of the corollet in ligulate florets; also, an appendage to the leaf in some grasses.NWAD STRAP.3
STRAP, v.t.
1. To beat or chastise with a strap.NWAD STRAP.5
2. To fasten or bind with a strap.NWAD STRAP.6
3. To rub on a strap for sharpening, as a razor.NWAD STRAP.7
STRAPPADO, n. A military punishment formerly practiced. It consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall, by which means a limb was sometimes dislocated.
STRAPPADO, v.t. To torture.
1. Drawing on a strap, as a razor.NWAD STRAPPING.2
2. Binding with a strap.NWAD STRAPPING.3
3. a. Tall; lusty; as a strapping fellow.NWAD STRAPPING.4
STRAP-SHAPED, a. In botany, ligulate.
STRATA, n. plu. [See Stratum.] Beds; layers; as strata of sand, clay or coal.
STRATAGEM, n. [L., Gr., to lead an army.]
1. An artifice, particularly in war; a plan or scheme for deceiving an enemy.NWAD STRATAGEM.2
2. An artifice; a trick by which some advantage is intended to be obtained.NWAD STRATAGEM.3
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem.NWAD STRATAGEM.4
STRATEGE, STRATEGUS, n. [Gr.] An Athenian general officer.
STRATH, n. A vale, bottom or low ground between hills. [Not in use.]
1. The process by which substances in the earth have been formed into strata or layers.NWAD STRATIFICATION.2
2. The state of being formed into layers in the earth.NWAD STRATIFICATION.3
3. The act of laying in strata.NWAD STRATIFICATION.4
STRATIFIED, pp. Formed into a layer, as a terrene substance.
1. To form into a layer, as substances in the earth. Thus clay, sand and other species of earth are often found stratified.NWAD STRATIFY.2
2. To lay in strata.NWAD STRATIFY.3
STRATIFYING, ppr. Arranging in a layer, as terrene substances.
STRATOCRACY, n. [Gr., an army; to hold.] A military government; government by military chiefs and an army.