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.

Abounding in streams, or in water.

The state of being streamy; a trailing.

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

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

A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.

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.

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.

Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful.

Straw.

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

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

See Strene.

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

A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.

Facing toward the street.

See 2nd Strait.

See Straiten.

To strain.

Close; narrow; strict.

Narrowly; strictly; straitly.

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

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.

Race; offspring; stock; breed; strain.

the original compar. superl. of Strong.

To strengthen.

To grow strong or stronger.

One who, or that which, gives or adds strength.

Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong.

A stronghold.

Destitute of strength.

See Strengthener.

Having strength; strong.

Strenuousness; activity.

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.

Noisy; loud.

Loud; boisterous.

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

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.

One of the Strepsiptera.

Of or pertaining to Strepsiptera.

Same as Lemuroidea.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Having much stress.

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

One who, or that which, stretches.

a. n. from Stretch, v.

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.

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.

The act of scattering or spreading.

Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration.

p. p. of Strew.

A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.

To mark with striaae.

Marked with striaae, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.

The quality or condition of being striated.

The corpus striatum.

A stria.

An owl.

A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.

Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.

An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.

See Strickle.

See Strickle.

Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.

The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted.

In a strict manner; closely; precisely.

Quality or state of being strict.

Strictness.

Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.

A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride.

The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride.

Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.

A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise.

To make a shrill, creaking noise to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.

The act of stridulating. The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. The noise itself.

That which stridulates.

Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation.

Making a shrill, creaking sound.

The act of striving; earnest endeavor.

Contentious; discordant.

Having transverse bands of color.

The tribe of birds which comprises the owls.