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The interest of our kingdom is ready to strike s. The chord of a musical instrument. to that of your poorest fishing towns: 'it is hard Thus when two brethren strings are set alike, you wilt not accept our services.

Stift.

To move them both, but one of them we strike 11. To be put by some sudden act or mo

Cowley. tion into any state ; to break forth.

The string that jars It struck on a sudden into such reputation, When rudely touch'd, ungrateful to the sense, that it scorns any longer to scuik, but owns it- With pleasure feels the master's flying fingers,

self publickly. Government of the Tongue. Swells into harmony, and charms the hearers. 12, TO STRIKE in with. To conform ;

Rowe. to suit itself to ; to join with at once.

By the appearance they make in marble, there Those who, by the prerogative of their age,

is not one string-instrument that seems compare able to our violins.

Addison. should frown youth into sobriety, imitate and yfrike in with them, and are really vitious that 6. A small fibre. they may be thought young.

Soutb.

Duckweed putteth forth a little string into They catch at every shadow of relief, strike in the water, from the bottom.

Bacon. at a venture with the next companion, and, so

In pulling broom up, the least strings left bethe dead commodity be taken oft, care not who

Mortimer. be the chapman.

Norris. 7. A nerve; a tendon. The cares or pleasures of the world strike in The most piceous tale, which in recounting, with every thought.

Addison. His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life He immediately struck in with them; but de- Began to crack.

Sbakspeare. scribed chis march to the temple with so much The string of his congue loosed. Mark.

horrour, that he shivered every joint. Addison. 8. The nerve or line of the bow. Ij. TO STRIKE out. To spread or rove;

The wicked bend their bow, they make ready to make a sudden excursion.

their arrows upon the string:

Psalms. In this plain was the last general rendezvous Th' impetuous arrow whizzes on the wing, of mankind; and from thence they were broken

Sounds the cough horn, and twangs the quiv'ring into companies, and dispersed; the several suc

string

Pope. cessive generations, like the waves of the sea, 9. Any concatenation or series : as, a over-reaching one another, and striking out far- string of propositions. ther and farther upon the land. Burnet.

10. To kave two STRING's to the Bow. When a great man strikes out into a sudden ir

To have two views or two expedients; regularity, he needs not questiou the respect of a retinue.

Collier.

to have double advantage, or double STRIKE. n. s. A bushel; a dry measure

security.

No lover has that pow'r of capacity ; four pecks.

T' enforce a desperate annour, Wing, cartnave, and bushel, peck, strike, ready 'at hand.

Tusser.

As he that has two strings to 's bow,
And burns for love and money too.

Hudibras, STRI'KEBLOCK. n. S. A plane shorter TOSININ. v. a. preterit strung ; part. than the jointer, having its sole made

pass. strung. [from the noun.] exactly fiat and straight, and is used for

1. To furnish with strings. the shooting of a short joint. Moxon.

Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet STRI'KE P. n. s. [from strike.] Person or With firmest nerves, design'a to walk the street ? thing that strikes.

A bishop then must be blameless, not given 2. To put a stringed instrument in tune. to wine, no striker.

1 Timotby. Here the inuse so oft her harp has strung, He thought with his staff to have struck the That not a mountain rears its head unsung. Addis. striker.

Sandys. 3. To file on a string. The striker must be dense, and in its best ve

Men of great learning or genius are too full locity.

Digby.

to be exact; and therefore chuse to throw down STRIKING. part. adj. [from strike.] At- their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather sceting ; surprising.

than be at the pains of stringing them. Spectator. STRING. n. s. [riring, Saxon ; streng, 4. To make tense.

; German and Danish; stringhe, Dutch ; Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood. stringo, Latin.)

Dryden. 1. A slender rope; a small cord; any

STRI'NGED. adj. [from string.] Having slender and flexible band.

strings; produced by strings. Any lower bullet hanging upon the other above

Praise him with stringed instruments and orit, must be conceived as if the weight of it were

gais.

Psalms. in that point where its string touches the upper.

Divinely warbled voice
Wilkins.

Answering the stringed noise, 2. A riband.

As all their souls in blissful rapture took. Milt. Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystick STRI'NGENT. adj. [stringens, Lat.] Bindstring,

ing ; contracting. That makes the knight companion to the king. STRI'NGHALT.n. s. (string and balt.]

Prior. Stringbalt is a sudden twitching and snatch3. A thread on which any things are filed. ing up of the hinder leg of a horse inuch higher Their priests pray by their beads, having a

than the other, or an involuntary or convulsive string with a hundred of nutshells upon it; and

motion of the muscles that extend or bend the the repeating of certain words with them they hough.

Farrier's Dictionary. account meritorious.

Stilling fleet. STRI'NGLESS. adj. [from string.] Having 4. Any set of things filed on a line.

no strings. I have caught two of these dark undermining

Nothing; all is said; vermin, and intend to make a string of them, in His tongue is now a stringless instrument; order to hang them up in one of my papers. Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent. Spectator.

Sbakspeare.

Gay.

a

These men are fortune's jewels moulded bright, 17. TO STRIKE out. To blot; to efface. Brought forth with their own fire and light; If I her vulgar stone for either took,

By expurgatory animadversions, we might

strike out great numbers of hidden qualities; and, Out of myself it must be struck.

Cowley. having once a conceded list, with more safety Take my caduceus! With this th' infernal ghosts I can command,

attempt their reasons.

Browr..

To methodize is as necessary as to strike out. And strike a terror through the Stygian strand.

Pope. Dryden. 18. TO STRIKE out. To bring to light. To. To affect suddenly in any particular 19. TO STRIKE out. To form at once by manner. When verses cannot be understood, nor a man's

a quick effort. good wit seconded with the forward child under

Whether thy hand strike out some free design,

Where life awakes and dawns at ev'ry line; standing, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.

Sbakspeare.

Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass, Strike her young bones,

And from the canvass call the mimick face. Ye taking airs, with lameness. Sbakspeare. To STRIKE. v. n.

Pope. He that is stricken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Sbat. I. To make a blow. So ceas'd the rival crew, when Purcell

came, I, in mine own woe charmid, They sung no more, or only sung Il fame;

Could not find death where I did hear him groan, Struck dumb, they all admir'd Dryden. Nor feel him where he struck. Sbakspeare. Humility ilisarms envy, and artit dead.

It pleas'd the king

Collier. To strike at me upon his misconstruction, Then dottribe him dead denial, When he tript me behind. Sbakspeare. But hold him up in life.

Addison. He wither'd all their strength before he strook. 21. To cut sound by

Dryden. only empinal

2. Tole; to clash. Strike unts, and lot que of war

Ho ring by a thread in a glass, tell him Plead for

re. Sbaks.

that it, it shall strike so many times

de of the glass, and no more. Bacer. 12.

vils beat,
3.

repeated percussion.
Tate.

stress, when my drink is ready, weight,

in the bell.

Sbakspeare. to Chil

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so divine a hand they strook, ution from their breath they took.

Waller Sbak.

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Sbakspeare.
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The interest of our kingdom is ready to strike s. The chord of a musical instrument. to that of your poorest fishing towns. it is hard Thus when two brethren strings are set alike, you wilt not accept our services. Sreift.

To move them both, but one of them we strike. 11. To be put by some sudden act or mo

Cowley. tion into any state ; to break forth.

The string that jars It struck on a sudden into such reputation, When rudely touch’d, ungrateful to the sense, that it scorns any longer to scuik, but owns it- With pleasure feels the master's flying fingers,

self publickly. Government of the Tongue. Swells into harmony, and charms the hearers. 12, TO STRIKE in with. To conform ;

Rowe. to suit itself to ; to join with at once.

By the appearance they make in marble, there Those who, by the prerogative of their age,

is not one string-instrument that seems compar. able to our violins.

Addison. should frown youth into sobriety, imitate and

6. A small fibre. strike in with them, and are really vitious that they may be thought young.

Soutb. Duckweed putteth forth a little string into They catch at every shadoir of relief, strike in the water, from the bottom.

Bacon. at a venture with the next companion, and, so

In pulling broom up, the least strings left behind will grow.

Mortimer. the dead commodity be taken oft, care not who be the chapman.

Norris. 7. A nerve; a tendon. The cares or pleasures of the world strike in The most piceous tale, which in recounting, with every thought.

Addison. His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life He immediately struck in with them; but de- Began to crack.

Sbakspeare. scribed this march to the temple with so much The string of his congue loosed. Merk.

horrour, that he shivered every joint. Addison. 8. The nerve or line of the bow. 13. TO STRIKE out. To spread or rove;

The wicked bend their bow, they make ready to make a sudden excursion.

their arrows upon the string.

Psalms. In this plein was the last general rendezvous Th’impetuous arrow whizzes on the wing, of mankind; and from thence they were broken

Sounds the tough horn, and twangs the quiv'ring into companies, and dispersed; the several suc

string.

Pope. cessive generations, like the waves of the sea, 9. Any concatenation or series : as, a over-reaching one another, and striking out far- string of propositions. ther and farther upon the land. Burnet.

10. lo bave two STRINGS to the Bow. When a great man strikes out into a sudden ir.

To have two views or two expedients; regularity, he needs not question the respect of a retinue.

Collier.

to have double advantage, or double STRIKE. N. S. A bushel; a dry measure

security.

No lover haş that pow'r of capacity ; four pecks.

T' enforce a desperate amour, Wing, cartnave, and bushel, peck, strike, ready

As he that has two strings to 's bow, at hand.

Tusser.

And burns for love and money too. Hudibras. STRIKEBLOCK, n. s.

A plane shorter TO STRIN. v. a. preterit strung ; part. than the jointer, having its sole made

pass. strung. (from the noun.] exactly flat and straight, and is used for

1. To furnish with strings. the shooting of a short joint. Moxon.

Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet IRL'KEP. n. s. [from strike.] Person or With firmest nerves, design'd to walk the street! *hing that strikes.

Gay. 1 bishop then must be blameless, not given 2. To put a stringed instrument in tune. ne, no striker.

1 Timotby. Here the muse so oft her harp has strung, thought with his staff to have struck the That not a mountain rears its head unsung. Addis.

Sandys.

3.

To file on a string. le striker must be dense, and in its best ve

Men of great learning or genius are too full ty.

Digby.

to be exact; and therefore chuse to throw down 'KING. part. adj. [from strike.] Af- their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather ting; surprising.

than be at the pains of stringing them. Spectator. · [röring, Saxon; streng, 4. To make tense. rinan and Danish; stringhe, Dutch;

Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood.

Dryden. ingo, Latin.) slender rope ; a small cord; any

STRI'NGED, adj. [from string.) Having nder and flexible band.

strings ; produced by strings. Any lower bullet hanging upon the other above

Praise him with stringed instruments and or. must be conceived as if the weight of it were

gans.

Psalms. that point where its string touches the upper.

Divinely warbled voice
Wilkins,

Answering the stringed noise,
A riband.

As all their souls in blissful rapture took. Milt. Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystick STRI'NGENT. adj. (stringens, Lat.] Bind

ing ; contracting That makes the knight companion to the king.

STRI'N HALT. n. s. (string and halt.]

Prior. Stringbalt is a sudden twitching and snarche A thread on which any things are filed.

ing up of the hinder leg of a horse much higher Their priests pray hy their beads, having a

than the other, or an involuntary or convulsive tring with a hundred of nutshells upon it; and

motion of the muscles that extend or bend the he repeating of certain words with them they

hough.

Farrier's Dictionary, account meritorious.

Stilling fleet. Sta!'XGLESS. adj. [from string.) Having Any set of things filed on a line.

no strings. I have caught two of these dark undermining

Nothing; all is said; vermin, and intend to make a string of them, in

His tongue is now a stringless instrument; order to hang them up in one of my papers.

Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent. Spectator.

Sbukspeare.

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ING. n. s.

string,

STRI'NG Y. adi. [from string. Fibrous ; He stripl of his cloaths.

1 Senech consisting of small thrrad:; filamentous.

Logick heips us to strig off the outward disA plain Indian fan, made of the small stringy

guise of things, and to behoiu and judge of them in their own nature.

Watts. parts of roots spread out in a round flat form.

Grew.

7. To cast off. Not in use. By melting expensive sweats, and an obstinate

His unkindness, flux of the belly, the string parts of the tendons

That stript her from his benediction, turn'd her and membranes are left unricruited Blackmore.

To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights TO STRIP.v.d. įstrepen, Dui. bertripte,

To his doghearted daughters: these things sting him.

Sbakspeare. stripped, Saxon.] I. To make naked; to deprive of cover

8. To separate from something adhesive

or connected. Not accurately used. ing: with of before the thing taken

Amongst men who examine not scrupulously away.

their own ideas, and strin them not from the They began to strip her of her cloaths when I marks men use for them, but confound them came in among them.

Sidney. with words, there must be endless dispute. Locke. They stript Joseph out of his coat. Generis.

STRIP. 1. s. (probably for siripe.] A Scarce credit:c it is now soon they were stript and laid naked on the ground.

narrow shred.

Hayward.
Hadst inou net committed

These two apartments were hung in close Notorious murder on the r thirty men

mourning, and only a strip of bays round the

other rooms. At Askeion, who never did thee harm,

Swift. Then like a roiber stripp'dst them of their robes. To STRIPE. v. a. (strepen, Dutch.]

Milion.

1. To variegate with lines of different coYou cloath all that have no relation to you, lours. and strip your master that gives you food.

L'Estrange.

2. To beat ; to lash. A rettling temsest through the branches went, STRIPE. 11. S. (strepe, Dutch.] That stript them bare.

Dryden. 1. A lineary variation of colour. This He saw a beauteous maid,

seems to be the original notion of the With hair disheve ll’d, issuing through the shade, word. Stript of her cloaths.

Dryden. Gardeners may have three roots, among on He left the pillagers, to rapine bred,

hundred, that are rare, as purple and carnation Without controul to strip arid spoil the dead.

of several stripes.

Bacon Dryden. 2. A shred of a different colour. The bride was put in form to bed; He follow'd stript.

Swift.

One of the most valuable trimmings of their

cloaths was a long stripe sowed upon the gar2. To deprive; to divest.

ment, called latus clavus.

Arbuthnet. The apostle, in exhorting men to contentment,

3. A weal or discoloration made by a lash although they have in this world no more than bare food and raiment, giveth us to understand, that those are even the lowest of things neces

Cruelty marked him with inglorious stripes.

Thomson. sary; that, if we should be stript of all these things, without which we might possibly be, yet 4. A blow; a lash. these must be left.

Hooker. A body cannot be so torn with stripes, as a Now this curious built Phæacian ship,

mind with remembrance of wicked actions. Returning from her convoy, I will strip

Harvard. Of all her flecting matter.

Chapman.

To those that are yet within the reach of the We strip and divest ourselves of our own will, stripes and reproofs of their own conscience, I and give ourselves entirely up to the will of God. would address that they would not seek to re

Duppa.

move themselves from, that wholesome disci. It is difficult to lead another by words into the pline.

Decay of Pietro thoughts of things, stripped of those specifick dif- STRI’red.part. adj. [from stripe.) Dis. ferences we give them.

. One would innagine these to be the expres

tinguished by lines of different colour. sions of a man bleseed with ease and aMuence, STRIPLING. n. s. (of uncertain etymonot of one just stript of xil those advantages, and logy.) A youth; one in the state of plunged in the deepest miseries, and now sitting aclolescence. naked upon a dunghill.

Atterbury

'Thwart the lane, 3. To rob; to plunder; to pillage : as, a He, with two striplings, lads, more like to run thief stripped the house.

The country base than to commit such slaughter, That which lays a man open to an enemy, and

Made good the passage.

Stakspeare. that which strips him rj a friend, equally attacks

Now a stripling cherub he appears, him in all Lou interests that are capable of be- Not of the prime, yet such as in his face ing weakened by the one, and supported by the

Youth simild celestial.

Miltoa. other.

Soutb. Compositions on any important subjects are 4. To peel; to decorticate.

not matters to be wrung from poor stripling! If the leaves or dried sticks le stricted into

like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit.

Milton. small stravs, they arive unto an ber, wax, and other electrics, 10 other ways than those of As when young striplings whip the top for wheat or rye.

Broun.

sport,

On the smooth pavement of an empty court, 3. Ti di prive rf all.

The wooden engine whirls.

Dryden. When some fond easy fathers strip themselves before they lie down to their long sleep, and orto

As every particular member of the body is tle their who e estates upon their sons, has it not

nourished with a several qualitied juice, so child

ren and stridlings, old men and young men, been seen that the father has been requited with

must have divers diets.

Arbutiei. beggary?

South. 6. To take of covering : with off en pha. STRI'PPER. 1. s. [from strip.] One that tical.

strips.

or blow.

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Sbakspeare

L'Estrange:

TO STRIVE. v. n. preterit I strove, an

Then urg'd his fiery chariot on the foe,

And rising shook his lance in act to throw. ciently I strived; part. pass. striven.

Dryden. (streven, Dutch ; estriver, French.)

2. A hostile blow, 1. To struggle; to labour; to make an

As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks, effort.

So they redoubled strokes upon the foe. Sbaksp. The immutability of God they strive unto, by He entered and won the whole kingdom of working after one and the same manner. Hooker. Naples, without striking a stroke. Bacan.

Many brave young minds have, through her. Both were of shining steel, and wrought se ing the praises and eulogies of worthy men, been

pure, stirred up affect the like commendations, and As might the strokes of two such arms endure. so strive to the like deserts. Spenser.

Dryden. Strive with me in your prayers to God for I had long a design upon the ears of Curl; but

Romans. the rogue would never allow me a fair stroke at So have I strived to preach the gospel. Rom. them, though my penknife was ready. Swift.

Was it for this that Rome's best blood he spilt, With so much foisehood, so much guilt?

3. A sudden disease or affliction. Was it for this that his ambition strove

Take this purse, thou whom the heav'ns

plagues To equal Cæsar first, and after Jove? Cowley.

Have humbled to all strokes.
Our blessed Lord commands you to strive to

Sbakspeare.

At this one stroke the man look'd dead in law: enter in; because many will fail, who only seek to enter.

Law.

His flatterers scamper, and his friends withdraw. These thoughts he strove to bury in expence,

Harte. Rich meats, rich wines, and vain magniticence.

4. The sound of the clock. Harte,

What is 't o'clock? 2. To contest; to contend ; to struggle in

- Upon the stroke of four. opposition to another: with against or

5. The touch of a pencil.

Oh, lasting as those colours may they shine! with before the person opposed.

Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line. Pope. Do as adversaries do in law;

6. A touch; a masterly or eminent effort. Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Sbakspeare.

Another in my place would take it for a not

able stroke of good breeding, to compliment the Strive for the truth unto death. Ecclesiasticus,

reader. Why dost thou strive against him?

Fob.

The boldest strokes of poetry, when managed Charge them that they strive not about words, to no profit.

2 Timothy.
artfully, most delight the reader.

Dryden.

As he purchased the first success in the preAroiu contentions and strivings about the law.

Titus.

sent war, by forcing into the service of the conThis is warrantable conflict for the trial of our

federates an army that was raised against them,

he will give one of the finishing strokes to it, and faith; so that these strivings are not a contending with superior powers.

L'Estrange.

help to conclude the great work. Addison.

A verdict more puts me in possession of my Thus does every wicked man that contemns

estate; I question not but you will give it the God; who can save or destroy him who strives with bis Maker? Tillotson. finishing stroke.

Arbutbnot. If intestine broils alarm the hive,

Isiodore's collection was the great and bold For two pretenders oft for empire strive,

stroke, which in its main parts has been discoverThe vulgar in divided factions jar,

en to be an impudent forgery.

Baker. And murm'ring sounds proclaim the civil war.

7. An effect suddenly or unexpectedly pro

Dryden. duced. 3. To oppose by contrariety of qualities. 8. Power : efficacy,

Now private pity strove with publick hate, These having equal authority for instruction Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. of the young prince, and well greeting, bare

Denbam.

equal stroke in divers faculties. Hayward. 4. To vie; to be comparable to; to emu- Perfectly opacous bodies can but reflect the late; to contend in excellence.

incident beams; those that are diaphanous reNor that sweet grove

fract them too, and that refraction has such a Of Daphne by Orontes, and the inspir’d

stroke in the production of colours generated Castalian spring, might with this paradise

by the trajection of light through drops of waOf Eden strige.

Milton. ter, that exhibit a rainbow through divers other STRI'VER. 1. s. [from strive.] One who transparent bodies.

Boyle.

He has a great stroke with the reader, when labours; one who contends.

he condemns any of my poems, to make the STRO'KAL. 1. so An instrument used by

world have a better opinion of them. Dryden. glass-makers.

Bailey. The subtile e uvia of the male seed have the STROKE or Strook. The old preterit of greatest stroke in generation.

Ray. strike, now commonly struck.

TO STROKE. v. a. [reracan, Sax.] He, hoodwinked with kindness, least of all men knew who strobe him.

Sidney.

1. To rub gently with the hand by way of

kindness or endearment ; to sooth. STROKE, . s. [from strook, the preterit

Thus children do the silly birds they find of strike. ]

With stroaking hurt, and too much cramming 1. A blow; a knock; a sudden act of one

kill.

Sidney, body upon another,

The senior weaned his younger shall teach,
The oars were silver,

More stroken and made of when aught it doth Which to the tune of flutes kepe stroke, and

aile, made

More gentle ye make it for yoke or the paile. The water which they beat to follow faster,

Tusser. As amorous of their strokes.

Sbakspeare. Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike, His white-man'd steeds, that bow'd beneath One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. the yoke,

Ben Jonson, He chcar'd to courage with a gentle stroi:; He set forth a proclamation, stroaking the peo

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