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.

That strengthens; giving or increasing 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.

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.

An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.

Set with stiff, slender bristles.

Of or pertaining to owls; owl-like.

Scraping; that which is scraped off.

Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.

Strigose.

The act of striking.

the area above home plate where, if a pitched ball passes through and is not hit by the batter, the pitch counts as a strike. Specifically, it is directly above home plate and at a height from the knees to the shoulders of the batter.

an out made by a batter against whom three strikes were called in a single at-bat; also, the same out as credited to the pitcher, in the scoring of the game.

One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.

Affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible; impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance.

See Strickle.

To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.

A mathematical theory for describing the properties of fundamental particles, which represents the particles as one-dimensional string-like objects, which exist in the normal four dimensions of space-time plus additional dimensions, the total dimensions being ten, eleven, or twenty-six depending on the version of the theory. The properties of fundamental particles in string theory and their manner of interaction with each other depend upon the modes of vibration of the strings{17}. The attractiveness of this theory rests in part on its ability to provide a unified treatment of gravity as well as the three other basic forces of nature, in a manner consistent with quantum mechanics. The great difficulty of doing the calculations required by the theory, however, has thus far (1999) made it impossible to calculate the observable properties, such as the mass, of known particles, such as the electron, proton, mesons, quarks, and neutron; thus there is as yet no experimental verification for the theory. The most popular version of the theory depends on a mathematical property called supersymmetry, and the theory derived form this principle is properly called superstring theory, a term which is often used interchangeably with string theory. See also string{17}.

Same as Stringpiece.

A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.

Having strings; as, a stringed instrument.

The quality or state of being stringent.

Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.

Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules.

One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.

An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.

Quality of being stringy.

Having no strings.

A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.: One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.

Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.

A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.

Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.

To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.

Having stripes of different colors; streaked.

A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.

One who, or that which, strips; a machine for stripping cards.

A small stream.

The act of one who strips.

A division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificial group.

An effort; a striving.

Striven.