An instrument for measuring the amount of strabismus.
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An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.
The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.
The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.
Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3.
Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads.
The act of straggling.
One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.
a. n. from Straggle, v.
In a straggling manner.
The mantle, or pallium, of a bird.
To straighten.
Having straight joints. Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.
Having straight lines.
Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.
Straight in form or upright in position; erect.
Speaking with directness; plain-spoken.
A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.
A variant of Straiten.
One who, or that which, straightens.
Straightway.
Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. In a straightforward manner.
An orthoceras.
A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.
A variant of Straitness.
Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.
Straightway.
A strake.
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
Capable of being strained.
Violently.
Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.
One who strains.
a. n. from Strain.
Overexertion; excessive tension; strain.
To put to difficulties.
Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.
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.
Bound with stays.
Same as Strait-jacket.
To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.
In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.
The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.
A streak.
Pupil of the eye.
To dash down; to beat.
A turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight.
A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword.
Strawy; consisting of straw.
A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.
Stramonium.
To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
Strong.
To be estranged or alienated.
As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange.
The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
To estrange; to alienate.
To be strangled, or suffocated.
Capable of being strangled.
One who, or that which, strangles.
A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.
Strangulated.
Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia.
The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.
Of or pertaining to strangury.
A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.
The guillemot.
To beat or chastise with a strap.
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
To punish or torture by the strappado.
One who uses strap.
Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow.
To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle.
A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.
A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium. Cf. Glass.
pl. of Stratum.
An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle.
The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
Strategic.
Strategy.
Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice.
Strategy.
One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.
The leader or commander of an army; a general.
The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.
A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore.
A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune.
Characterized by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate.
The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.
Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.
Having the form of strata.
To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.
Pertaining to, or depended upon, the order or arrangement of strata; as, stratigraphical evidence.
That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.
An alto-stratus cloud.
Large balls or rolls of dark cloud which frequently cover the whole sky, esp. in winter, and give it at times an undulated appearance.
A military government; government by military chiefs and an army.
Of or pertaining to stratography.
A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army.
Of or pertaining to an army.
Warlike; military.
A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.
A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. See Cloud.
To stretch; to make straight.
A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.
An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, Fragaria vesca. There are also other less common species.
Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
imp. p. p. of Straw.
A caddice worm.
Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw.
Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.
One who strays; a wanderer.
Straw.
To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.
Marked or variegated with stripes.
Same as Streaked, 1.
To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.
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