strabismus 
diverge, or at least cross beyond the fixation-point. Di- 
plopia from this cause is said to be crossed. Latent 
strabismus, strabismus existing only when one eye i^ 
occluded. Manifest strabismus, strabismus occurring 
when both eyes arc open.- Monolateral strabismus, 
strabismus in wlm-h it is always the visual axis of the 
same eye which fails to pass through the fixation-point. 
Relative strabismus, strabismus occurring for some 
and not for other distances of the fixation-point. Stra- 
bismus deorsum vergens, downward squint, in which 
the visual axis of the squinting eye passes lower than the 
fixation-point. Strabismus sursum vergens, upward 
squint, in which the visual axis of the squinting eye passes 
higher than the fixation-point. 
Strabometer (stra-bom'e-ter), n. [< Gr. arpa- 
fioc, crooked, + fiirpov, measure.] An instru- 
ment for measuring strabismus; a strabis- 
mometer. 
Strabotomy (stra-bot'o-mi), n. [< Gr. orpa/Jor, 
crooked, distorted (< arpiyeiv, twist, turn about), 
+ -rouia, < Ttftvetv, Tapc'tv, cut.] In surg., the 
operation for the cure of squinting by cutting 
the attachment of a muscle or muscles to the 
eyeball. 
strachyt, . A word of doubtful form and mean- 
ing, occurring only in the following passage, 
where in the earlier editions it is italicized as 
a title or proper name. 
There is example for 't ; the lady of the Strachy married 
the yeoman of the wardrobe. Shak., T. N., ii. 5. 45. 
strackent. An obsolete past participle of strike. 
Chaucer. 
Stract (strakt), a. [Aphetic form of distract.] 
Distracted. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
So I did, but he came afterwards as one stract and be- 
sides himselfe. Terence in English (1614). (Nares.) 
Strad (strad), n. [Origin obscure.] A kind of 
leather gaiter worn as a protection against 
thorns. Halliwell. 
straddle (strad'l), v. ; pret. and pp. straddled, 
ppr. straddling. [A var. of stridle, striddle, freq. 
of stride: see striddle, stride. "] I. intrans. 1. 
To stand or walk with the legs wide apart ; sit 
or stand astride. 
At length (as Fortune serude) I lighted vppon an old, 
straddling usurer. Nashe, Pierce Penilesse, p. 11. 
Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth 
of the way, and said, I am void of fear in this matter. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, i. 
2. To include or favor two apparently opposite 
or different things ; occupy or take up an equiv- 
ocal position in regard to something: as, to 
straddle on the tariff question. [Colloq.] 
II. trans. 1 . To place one leg on one side and 
the other on the other side of; stand or sit 
astride of: as, to straddle a fence or a horse. 
2. To occupy or take up an equivocal position 
in regard to; appear to favor both sides of: as, 
to straddle a political question. [Colloq.] 
The platform [of the Ohio Democrats] contains the well- 
known plank straddling the tariff question, which has ap- 
peared in previous Democratic platforms of that and other 
States. The Nation, July 3, 1864, p. 4. 
3. To double (the blind) in poker. 
straddle (strad'l), n. [(straddle, v.] 1. The act 
of standing or sitting with the legs far apart. 
2. The distance between the feet or legs of one 
who straddles. 3. In speculative dealings on 
'change, a "privilege" or speculative contract 
covering both a "put" and a "call" that is, 
giving the holder the right at his option (1) of 
calling, within a specified number of days, for 
a certain stock or commodity at a price named 
in the contract, or (2) of delivering to the 
person to whom the consideration had been 
paid a certain stock or commodity upon terms 
similarly stated. See call 1 , n., 15, privilege, n., 
5, and nut 1 , n., 5. Also called spread eagle. 
[Slang.] 4. In the game of poker, a dou- 
bling of the blind by one of the players. 5. 
An attempt to take an equivocal or non-com- 
mittal position : as, a straddle in a party plat- 
form. [Colloq.] 6. In mining, one of the ver- 
tical timbers by which the different sets are 
supported at a fixed distance from each other 
in the shaft; a vertical post used in various 
ways in timbering a mine, as in supporting the 
framework of a shaft at a hanging-on place. 
straddle (strad'l), adv. [Short for astraddle.] 
Astride ; with straddled legs : as, to ride strad- 
dle. 
straddle-bug (strad'1-bug), . A sort of tum- 
ble-bug ; a scarabeeid beetle with long legs, of 
the genus Canthoti, as C. leevis. See cut under 
tumble-bug. [U. S.] 
Out in the woods for a good time. Cloth spread on the 
green-sward, crickets and straddle bugs hopping and crawl- 
ing over sandwiches and everything else. 
St. Nicholas, XVII. 12, adrt. 
straight 
straddle-legged (strad'1-legd), . Having the straggling (strag'ling),)). [Verbal n. ( 
legs wide apart; with the legs astride of an yle, r.] A mode <.t dressing the surfaces of 
object. II. //. Itit.wll. grindstom-s. 
straddle-pipe (strad'1-pip), H. In yas-nnnnif.. stragglingly (stnig'ling-H), rtrfr. In a strag- 
a bridge-pipe connecting the retort with the gling manner; one here and one there, or one 
hydraulic main. E. U. Knight. now and one again : as, to come in Ktrngglingly. 
Straddle-plow (strad'1-plou), . A plow with straggling-money(*ti'at,''liii!_'-niun''i), . Inthe 
two triangular parallel shares set a short dis- British navy: (a) Money given to those who 
tance apart, used to cover a row of corn, etc., 
by running it so that the line of seed come- 
between the shares. E. H. Knit/lit. 
stradiott (strad'i-ot), . [< OF. stradiot, estra- 
dit: see estradiot.] Same as estradiot. 
Strae (stra), . A Scotch form of straw 1 . 
straget, . [< L. strages, slaughter.] Slaugh- 
ter; destruction. 
He presaged the great strage and messacre which after 
apprehend deserters <>r others who have strag- 
gled or overstayed their leave of absence. (Ii) 
Money ded net ed from the wages of a man absent 
from duty without leave. 
Straggly (strag'li),a. [<*//</<//< +-1/1.] Strag- 
gling; lone and spread out irregularly: as, a 
straggly scrawl ; a straggly village. [Colloq.] 
Stragular (strag'u-lar),. In oriiith., pertaining 
to the stragulum or mantle; pallial. 
hapned In Sicilia. Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 230. Stragulum (strag'u-lum), n. ; pi. xtrfigula (-1S). 
straggle (strag'l), . t. ; pret, and pp. straggled* '< *> Ktragiiliim, a'cover, coverlet: see Strait,] 
ppr. straggling. [Formerly also stragle; a var. I "ruilli., the.mantle; the pallium; the back 
of *strac'k'le, freq. of strnke (perhaps due in part ! "id folded wings taken together, in any way 
to the influence of draggle, but cf. stagger for distinguished from other parts, as by color on 
Stacker 1 ): K6 Stroke 1 . Straggle is not connected a gull or tern. [Bare.] 
with stray.] 1. To roam or wander away, or Strahlite (stra'lit), ti. [< G. StraM, a ray, beam, 
become separated, as from one's companions or arrow (see strait), + ->-.] Same as actinolite. 
the direct course or way ; stray. Straight 1 (strat), a. and u. [Formerly also 
streight, stntugkt, Se. xtriiiii/ht, stravcht, and, 
with the omission of the silent guttural, strait 
(prob. by confusion with the diff. word strait^. 
narrow, strict, which was also, on the other 
hand, formerly spelled straight) ; < ME. streight, 
streght, streigt, rarely streit, straight, lit. 'stretch- 
ed,' < AS. streht, pp. of streccan, stretch: see 
stretch. Cf. ME. strek, strik, < AS. stree, strsec, 
streae = MLG. LG. strak = OHG. strach, MHG. 
strac, G. strack, extended, stretched, straight, 
= Dan. (obs.) strag, straight, erect, tight; from 
the same ult. root. Cf. the equiv. right, lit. 
'stretched.'] I. a. If. Stretched ; drawn out. 
In the plain beyond us, for we durst not straggle from 
the shore, we beheld where once stood Ilium by him [Ilus] 
founded. . Sandys, Travailes, p. 18. 
I found my self four or five Mile to the West of the 
Place where I stragled from my Companions. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. II. 84. 
2. To roam or wander at random, or without 
any certain direction or object ; ramble. 
Master George How, one of the Councell, stragling 
abroad, was slaine by the Salvages. 
Quoted in Ca.pt. John Smith's Works, I. 100. 
3. To escape or stretch out ramblingly or be- 
yond proper limits ; spread widely apart ; shoot 
too far in growth. 
Trim off the small superfluous branches on each side of 
the hedge, that straggle too far out. 
Mortimer, Husbandry. 
How these tall 
Naked geraniums straggle ! 
Browning, Pippa Passes, i. 
4. To be dispersed ; be apart from any main 
body; standalone; be isolated; occur at inter- 
vals or apart from one another; occur here and 
there : as, the houses straggle all over the dis- 
trict. 
straggler (strag'ler), n. [< straggle + -er^.] 
1. One who straggles or strays away, as from 
his fellows or from the direct or proper course ; 
one who lags behind or becomes separated in 
any way from his companions, as from a body 
of troops on the march. 
This maner of speech is termed the figure of digression 
by the Latines, following the Oreeke original! ; we also call 
him the straggler, by allusion to the souldier that marches 
out of his array. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 195. 
The first stragglers of a battalion of rocks, guarding a 
sort of pass, beyond which the beck rushed down a water- 
fall. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xxxiv. 
2. Specifically, in ornith., a stray, or strayed 
bird, out of its usual range, or off its regular 
migration. The stragglers are the casual or accidental 
visitants in any avifauna. In the nature of the case they 
are never numerous as regards individuals ; but the list 
of what are technically called stragglers in any region or 
locality usually becomes, in the course of time, a long one, 
so far as species are concerned. Thus, in the avifauna of 
the District of Columbia, the stragglers are about as many 
species as the regular visitants of either summer or winter, 
or the permanent residents of the year round, though few- 
er than the spring and autumn migrants. 
siilir tlii flelsch, lord, was fnrst perceyued 
And, for oure sake, laid xtreigt in stalle. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 252. 
Pirrus with his streite swerd. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1 
537. 
2. Without bend or deviation, like a string 
tightly stretched; not crooked or curved ; right; 
in geom., lying, as a line, evenly between its 
points. This is Euclid's definition. The principal char- 
acteristic of a straight line is that it is completely deter- 
mined, if unlimited, by any two points taken upon it, or, If 
limited, by its two extremities. The idea of measurement 
does not enter into the idea of a straight line, and it is un- 
necessary to introduce that idea into the definition, as is 
done when it is said (after Legendre) to be the shortest dis- 
tance between two points. 
He that knoweth what is straight doth even thereby dis- 
cern what is crooked, because the absence of stralghtness 
in bodies capable thereof is crookedness. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 8. 
There is no moe such Ceesars ; other of them may have 
crook 'd noses, but to owe such straight arms, none. 
Shak., Cymbeline, iii. 1. 38. 
Be pleased to let thy Holy Spirit lead me in the straight 
paths of sanctity, without cleflections to either hand. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1885), I. 86. 
3. Without interruption or break ; direct. 
Forth-with declarid to hys peple all, 
And to thys cite his peple gan cal, 
Wher-vnto thai had an euyn streight way. 
Rom. o/Partenay (E. E. T. a). 1. 1308. 
With straight air that is, with the pressure from the 
main reservoir, or the air-pump, going directly to the 
brake cylinder the engineer can apply the brakes to all 
the wheels of his train simultaneously. 
Sawncr's Mag., VI. 333. 
4. Direct ; authoritative ; sure ; reliable : as, a 
er than the spring and autumn mgrants. . re , 
3. One who roams or wanders about at random, straigh t tip. [Slang.] 5. Upright ; marked by 
or without settled direction or object; a wan- 
derer; a vagabond; especially, a wandering, 
shiftless fellow ; a tramp. 
Let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again. 
Shak., Rich. III.,v. 3. 327. 
Bottles missing are supposed to be half stolen by strag- 
filers and other servants. 
Swift, Advice to Servants (Butler). 
4. Something that shoots beyond the rest or 
too far; an exuberant growth. 
Let thy hand supply the pruning-knif e, 
And crop luxuriant ttragglers. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, ii. 603. 
5. Something that stands apart from others; a 
solitary or isolated individual. 
I in a manner alone of that tyme lef t a standing straggler, 
peradventur, though my frute be very smaul, yet, bicanse 
the grownd from whens it sprang was so good, I may yet 
be thought somwhat fltt for seede, whan all yow the rest 
ar taken up for better store. 
Aictutin. in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 14. 
adherence to truth and fairness; fair; honor- 
able: as, a man straight in all his dealings. 
[Colloq.] 6. Proceeding or acting with direct- 
ness; keeping true to the course. [Colloq.] 
He shows himself to be a man of wide reading, a pretty 
straight thinker, and a lively and independent critic. 
The Nation, Dec. Ii, 1888, p. 458. 
7. Free from disorder or irregularity ; in order : 
as, his accounts are not quite straight. 
Finally, being belted, curled, and set straight, he de- 
scended upon the drawing-room. 
Thackeray, Pendennls, vii. 
He told her that she needn't mind the place being not 
quite straight, he had only come up for a few hours he 
should be busy in the studio. 
H. James, Jr., The Century, XXXVI. 218. 
8. Unqualified; unreserved; out-and-out: as, 
a straight Democrat (that is, one who supports 
the entire platform and policy of his party). 
9. Unmixed; undiluted; neat. [Slang.] 
whisky 
Dissipating their rare and precious cash on 
Straggle-tooth (strag'1-toth), n. An irregular / r oi^At" in the ever-recurring bar-rooms, 
or misshapen tooth ; a snaggle-tooth ; a snag. Fortnightly Ken., N. s,, xxxix. 78. 
