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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.

Strangulation

The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.

Strangury

A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.

Strap

To beat or chastise with a strap.

Strap-shaped

Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.

Strappado

To punish or torture by the strappado.

Strapping

Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow.

Strapple

To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle.

Strapwork

A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.

Strass

A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium. Cf. Glass.

Stratagem

An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.

Stratarithmetry

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.

Strategist

One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.

Strategus

The leader or commander of an army; a general.

Strategy

The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

Strath

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.

Strathspey

A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune.

Straticulate

Characterized by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate.

Stratification

The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.

Stratified

Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.

Stratify

To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.

Stratigraphy

That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.

Strato-cumulus

Large balls or rolls of dark cloud which frequently cover the whole sky, esp. in winter, and give it at times an undulated appearance.

Stratocracy

A military government; government by military chiefs and an army.

Stratography

A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army.

Stratum

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.

Stratus

A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. See Cloud.

Straw

A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.

Straw-colored

Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.

Strawberry

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.

Strawy

Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw.

Stray

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.

Streak

To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.

Streaked

Marked or variegated with stripes.

Stream

To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.

Streamer

An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.

Streaming

The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.

Streamless

Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel.

Streamline

Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp. when the resistance to flow is the least possible; as, a streamline body for an automobile or airship; -- the current usuage prefers the term streamlined.

streamline

to design or modify so as to present the least possible resistance to fluid flow; -- used mostly of vehicles, such as automobiles, airplanes, or ships.

Streamy

Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful.

Streek

To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak.

Streel

To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.

Street

Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.

Streetwalker

A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.

Streite

Narrowly; strictly; straitly.

Strelitz

A soldier of the ancient Muscovite guard or Russian standing army; also, the guard itself.

Strelitzia

A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers.

Strene

Race; offspring; stock; breed; strain.

Strengthful

Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong.

Strenuous

Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country.

Strepitores

A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.

Strepsiptera

A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter.

Strepsorhine

Having twisted nostrils; -- said of the lemurs. One of the Strepsorhina; a lemur. See Illust. under Monkey.

Streptobacteria

A so-called variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain.

Streptococcus

A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved.

Streptoneura

An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata.

Streptothrix

A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.

Stress

To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.

Stretch

Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.

Stretto

The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue. In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time.

Strew

To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.

Strewing

The act of scattering or spreading.

Strewment

Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration.

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