| strake | 1. A streak. ."White strake." . 2. An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces. 3. One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak. The planks or plates next the keel are called the garboard strakes; the next, or the heavy strakes at the bilge, are the bilge strakes; the next, from the water line to the lower port sill, the wales; and the upper parts of the sides, the sheer strakes. 4. <chemical> A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder. See: Streak. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| stramineous | Straw-coloured. (09 Oct 1997) |
| stramonium | <botany> A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed. Origin: NL.; Cf. F. Stramoine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stramony | <botany> Stramonium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| strand | <geography> The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. Strand birds. <zoology> The brown hyena. Origin: AS. Strand; akin to D, G, Sw, & Dan. Strand, Icel. Strond. (26 Nov 1998) |
| Strandberg | James Victor., Swedish dermatologist, *1883. See: Gronblad-Strandberg syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strangalesthesia | Synonym: zonesthesia. Origin: G. Strangale, halter, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| strange | 1. Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." "One of the strange queen's lords." (Shak) "I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues." (Ascham) 2. Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic. "So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights." (Sir J. Davies) 3. Not before known, heard, or seen; new. "Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you." (Shak) 4. Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. "He is sick of a strange fever." "Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me." (Milton) 5. Reserved; distant in deportment. "She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee." (Hawthorne) 6. Backward; slow. "Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In favoring the cause." (Beau. & Fl) 7. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. "In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange." (Shak) Strange is often used as an exclamation. "Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below." (Waller) Strange sail, an unknown vessel. Strange woman, a harlot. To make it strange. To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it. To make it a matter of difficulty. To make strange, To make one's self strange. To profess ignorance or astonishment. To assume the character of a stranger. Synonym: Foreign, new, outlandish, wonderful, astonishing, marvelous, unusual, odd, uncommon, irregular, queer, eccentric. Origin: OE. Estrange, F. Etrange, fr. L. Extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. Extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, Extraneous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stranger | 1. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically: One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner. "I am a most poor woman and a stranger, Born out of your dominions." (Shak) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country. One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance. "Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, And strangers to the sun yet ripen here." (Granville) "My child is yet a stranger in the world." (Shak) "I was no stranger to the original." (Dryden) 2. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. "To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger." (Milton) 3. One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy. Origin: OF. Estrangier, F. Etranger. See Strange. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| strangle | To suffocate; to choke; to compress the trachea so as to prevent sufficient passage of air. Origin: G. Strangaloo, to choke, fr. Strangale, a halter (05 Mar 2000) |
| strangles | A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| strangulate | <botany> Strangulated. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| strangulated | 1. <medicine> Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia. 2. <botany> Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted. Strangulated hernia. <medicine> See Hernia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| strangulated hernia | An incarcerated hernia which results in lack of blood perfusion to the herniated tissue or viscera. (27 Sep 1997) |
| strangulation | 1. The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled. 2. <medicine> Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia. Origin: L. Strangulatio: cf. F. Strangulation. See Strangle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |