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.

p. p. of Strive.

One who strives.

a. n. from Strive.

One of the flutings of a column.

To wander about idly and vacantly.

Of or pertaining to a strobile or cone. Producing strobiles.

The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian.

A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.

Shaped like a strobile.

Of or pertaining to a strobile; strobilaceous; strobiliform; as, strobiline fruits.

An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.

A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc.

imp. of Stride.

To strike.

One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking.

The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest.

The act of rubbing gently with the hand, or of smoothing; a stroke.

A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.

One who strolls; a vagrant.

The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney. The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.

Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.

The history of the formation of stratified rocks.

Any marine univalve mollusk of the genus Strombus and allied genera. See Conch, and Strombus.

A fossil shell of the genus Strombus.

Of, pertaining to, or like, Strombus.

Formed or shaped like a top.

A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called conch shells, or conchs. See Conch.

A steel-gray mineral of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of silver and copper.

Strand; beach.

Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.

Having a vigorous mind; esp., having or affecting masculine qualities of mind; -- said of women.

An acid.

A box of rigid and durable construction fitted with a lock, used for the purpose of protecting valuable items, such as jewelry or money.

Violence; force; power.

A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.

Somewhat strong.

In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.

Strongyloid.

Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. A strongyloid worm.

An earth of a white color resembling lime in appearance, and baryta in many of its properties. It is an oxide of the metal strontium.

Strontia.

Strontium carbonate, a mineral of a white, greenish, or yellowish color, usually occurring in fibrous massive forms, but sometimes in prismatic crystals.

Of or pertaining to strontium; containing, or designating the compounds of, strontium.

Strontic.

A metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc. It is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3.

A stroke.

To swell out; to strut.

A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.

In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.

Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, strophes.

Furnished with a strophiole, or caruncle, or that which resembles it.

A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.

See Red-gum, 1.

A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.

Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.

To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.

imp. of Strive.

Same as Strew.

To stroll.

p. p. of Strow.

To destroy.

imp. p. p. of Strike.

p. p. of Strike.

Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error.