stramash 
verbal n. of a supposed verb "xtriiuitixh. Other- 
wise a made verb, on the basis of stnimii-ouii ; 
cf . squabaak, n word of similar type.] To strike. 
beat, or Ijang ; break ; destroy. [Prov. Eng. and 
Scotch] 
Stramash (stra-mash'), . [See utrtniiiisli, i\ } 
A tumult; fray; light; struggle; row; distur- 
bance. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
Seaforth profited by the confusion to take the delinquent 
who had caused this stramash by the arm. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 35. 
stramazonet, stramazount, . [< OF. estra- 
iiitiron, a cut \vitli a sword, a do\vnright blow, 
bang, < It. xti-diiKi-^oiie, a exit with a sword, a 
blow iu fencing, < stramasso, a knock-down 
blow.] In old fencing, a cut delivered from 
the wrist with the extreme edge of the sword 
near the point. Egerton Castle, Schools and 
Masters of Fence. 
I, being loth to take the deadly advantage that lay before 
me of his left side, made a kind of rtramazmm, ran him up 
to the hilts through the doublet, through the shirt, and yet 
missed the skin. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iv. 4. 
stramineous (stra-min'e-us), . [< L. strami- 
III'HS, made of straw, < 'stramen, straw, litter: 
sec xfnt mage.] 1 . Consisting of straw ; strawy. 
2. Like straw ; light. 
His sole study is for words ... to set out a stramine- 
ous subject. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 223. 
3. Straw-colored; pale-yellowish, 
strammel (stram'el), n. [< OF. estramier, 
straw, < estraim, estrain, strati = It. stramc, 
straw, litter, < L. stramen, straw: see stram- 
age.~\ Straw; litter. [Cant.] 
Sleep on the strammel in his barn. 
Scott, Guy Manneriug, xxvtii. 
stramonium (stra-mo'ni-um), n. [F. stramoni- 
um = Sp. Pg. estramonio = It. stramonia, < 
NL. stramonium (stramonium spinosum), stramo- 
nia, strammonia, stramonium; origin obscure.] 
1. The thorn-apple, Datura Stramonium: so 
called particularly as a drug-plant, it is a stout 
ill-scented poisonous weed with green stem and pure- 
white flowers, widely diffused, in America often called 
Jamestown weed or jimson-weed. D. Tatula, a similar, but 
commonly taller, species with purple stem and pale-violet 
corolla (purple stramonium), has the same properties. 
It is found in the Atlantic United States. 
2. An officinal drug consisting of the seeds or 
leaves of stramonium, the seeds being more 
powerful. Its properties are the same as those 
of belladonna. See belladonna and Datura. 
Stramonium ointment. See ointment. Stramonium 
plaster. See plaster. 
stramony (stram'o-ni), n. [< NL. stramonium.'] 
Stramonium. 
Strand 1 (strand), . [< ME. strand, strand, < 
AS. strand = MB. strande, D. strand = late 
MHG. strant, G. strand = Icel. strand (strand-) 
= Sw. Dan. strand, border, edge, coast, shore, 
strand ; root unknown.] 1 . The shore or beach 
of the sea or ocean, or (in former use) of a lake 
or river; shore; beach. 
He fond bi the stronde, 
Ariued on his londe, 
Schipes flftene. 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.X 1. 35. 
The strand 
Uf precious India no such Treasure shows. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, ill. 24. 
2. A small brook or rivulet. [Prov. Eng. and 
Scotch.] 3. A passage for water: a gutter. 
B. Jonson, Epig. of Inigo Jones. [Prov. Eng. 
and Scotch (Scotch alsosfraww)'] Strand mole- 
rat, the Cape mole-rat of South Africa, Bathyergus mariti- 
mus. See mole-rat, and cut under Bathyergus. 
strand 1 (strand), v. [= D. MLG. G. strandeii = 
Icel. Sw. stranda = Dan. strande; from the 
noun.] I. trans. To drive or run aground on 
the sea-shore : as, the ship was stranded in the 
fog: often used figuratively. 
II. intrans. 1. To drift or be driven on 
shore ; run aground, as a ship. 
Stranding on an isle at morn. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
2. To be checked or stopped; come to a stand- 
still. 
strand 2 (strand), . [With excrescent d, for 
*stran (Sc. strawn), < D. streen, a skein, hank of 
thread, = OHG. streno, MHG. strene, siren, G. 
xtrahne, a skein, hank; root unknown.] 1. A 
number of yarns or wires twisted together to 
form one of the parts of which a rope is twisted ; 
hence, one of a number of flexible things, as 
grasses, strips of bark, or hiiir, twisted or wo- 
ven together. Three or more strands twisted 
together form a rope. See cut under crown, 
9, t.,9. 
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Wampum beads anil birchen ulrandu 
Dropping from her <-ai vl,>, hands. 
tt'liittirr, Truce of 1'iscataqua. 
2. A single thread; a filament; a fiber. 
The continuous communication of the gray matter of 
the spinal cord with the motor anil MMIMH-J firaniln. 
J. J/. Carnochan, Operative Surgery, p. 97. 
3. A string. [Scotch, in the form xtmtcn.] 
Mycelial strand. Same taffirwu mucrlimn (which see, 
under mycelium). 
Strand 2 (strand), r. t. [< strand?, n.] 1. To 
break one or more of the strands of (a rope). 
2. In repe-maUng, to form by the union in- 
twisting of strands.- stranded 'wire, a wire rope. 
[Eng.] 
strand-hird (strand'berd), n. Any limicoline 
wading bird which is found on the strand or 
beach, as a beach-bird, sanderling, sandpiper, 
sand-snipe, bay-snipe. See the distinctive 
names, and shore-bird, bay-birds. 
stranding-machine (stran'ding-ma-shen"), . 
A machine for twisting strands into ropes, 
strand-mycele, strand-mycelium (strand'ml- 
sel", -mi-se"li-um), n. Same a,sjil>n>nx iiii/i-r/nun 
(which see, under mycelium). 
Strand-plover (strand'pluv'er), n. The Swiss, 
gray, bull-head, or black-bellied plover, AY/</- 
tarola helvetica. See cut under Squataroln. 
strand-rat (strand'rat), n. The strand mole- 
rat (which see, under strandl). 
Strand-wolf (strand' wulf), n. The brown hyena, 
Hyeena villosa, found in South Africa, 
strang (strang), a. A dialectal form of strong^. 
[North. Eng. and Scotch.] 
strange (stranj), a. [Early mod. E. straunge; 
< ME. strange, straunge, estrange, < OF. estrange, 
estrenge, estraigne, estreigne, etc., F. etrange = 
It. strano, strange, foreign, < L. extraneus, that 
is without, external, < extra, without, on the 
outside: see extraneous, extra-.] 1. Foreign; 
alien; of or belonging to some other country. 
[Archaic.] 
I have been an alien In a strange land. Ex. xviii. 3. 
She hadde passed many a straunge strem. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T. , 1. 484. 
Also asmuche as may be, eschew straunge words. 
Gascoigne, Notes on Eng. Verse (Steele Glas, etc., ed. 
[Arber). 
One of the strange queen's lords. 
5/id*., L. L. I_, Iv. 2. 134. 
2. Of or pertaining to another or others; alien; 
belonging to others, or to some other place or 
neighborhood ; not lawfully belonging to one : 
intrusive. 
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit. 
Prov. xxii. 14. 
Strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds. 
Shak., Cymbeline, i. 4. 97. 
Call me not 
Mother ; for if I brought thee forth, it was 
As foolish hens at times hatch vipers, by 
Sitting upon strange eggs. 
Byron, Deformed Transformed, i. 1. 
3. Not before known, heard, or seen ; unfamil- 
iar; unknown; new: as, the custom was strange 
to them. 
To knowe the verrey degree of any maner sterre straunge 
orunstraunge after his longitude, thow he be indeterminat 
in their astrelabie. Chaucer, Astrolabe, ii. 17. 
Our strange garments cleave not to their mould 
But with the aid of use. Shak., Macbeth, i. 3. 145. 
Then a soldier, 
Full of strange oaths, . . . 
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 150. 
Sat 'neath strange trees, on new flowers growing there, 
Of scent unlike to those we knew of old. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, 1. 44. 
4. Outlandish; queer; odd. 
This power that some of them hare is disguised gear and 
strange fashions. Lalimer, Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. 
They were enforced for feare of quarell & blame to dis- 
guise their players with strange apparell, and by colour- 
ing their faces and carying hatts & capps of diuerse fash- 
ions to make them selues lesse knowen. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 25. 
5. Unusual; singular; wonderful; surprising; 
remarkable; of a kind to excite curiosity; not 
easily explained or explainable : as, a strange 
story, if true ; a strange hallucination. 
This Is above strange, 
That you should be so reckless ! 
B. Jonson, Devil is an Ass, 111. 3. 
Losing, by a strange after-game of Folly, all the battels 
we have won. Milton, Free Commonwealth. 
You will see an odd country, and sights that will seem 
strange to you. Cotton, in Walton's Angler, II. 228. 
6. Like a stranger; reserved; distant; es- 
tranged ; not familiar. 
stranger 
And Joseph saw liis brethren, and he know tlii-in, lull 
ln;nlr blmteU *//"//- ilriTu tln-m, ;uil sjinkr roughly unto 
""' \lii. 7. 
I.itlr and litlc he (Ca-sar] withdrewe from men his ac- 
dutomed gentflnewe, IM-C nniyng more . . . strange in 
countenance than euer before. 
.-vY '/'. Kltiij. The (iovernour, ii. 5. 
Let n- ,.| well bred. 
", U ay of the World, iv. 5. 
7. Unacquainted; inexperienced; unversed. 
I know thee well ; 
But in thy fortunes am unlearn'd and slrange. 
Shak., T. of A., iv 
8t. Unfavorable; averse to one's suit. 
Thow that his lady evere more be slrin 
Vit lat hyni serve hire til that he lie ili'd.' 
C/,inir,',-. 1'ailiament of Fowls, 1. 5b4. 
A strange fish, see a cW //*, under /*'. Strange 
sail (itaut.), an unknown vessel. To make a thing 
strange*, to make it a matter of difficulty, or of surprise 
or astonishment. 
Stramuje lie marie it of hir mariage ; 
His purpos was for to bLstowe hire hye 
Into some worthy blood of auncetry. 
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 60. 
She ninlcrs it strange ; but she would be best pleased 
To be so anger'd with another letter. 
Shak., T. G. of V., 1. 2. 102. 
To make strange*, to seem to be surprised or shocked ; 
look astonished ; express astonishment. 
Lyford denied, and made strange of sundry things laid 
to his charge. 
ff. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 116. 
= Syn. 4. Singular, Odd, etc. See eccentric. 6. Surpris- 
ing, Curious, etc. See wonderful. 
Stranget (stranj), r. [< ME. stravngen; < 
strange, a.; in part byapheresis from estrange, 
q. v.] I. trans. To alienate; estrange. 
And these preseidents consedred wolde discorage any 
man to a bide but a litel amonges hem that so straungeil 
hem self from me and mistrusted me. 
Paston Letteri, I. 508. 
II. intrans. 1. To wonder; be astonished. 
Whereat I should strange more, but that I find . . . 
Fuller, Holy War, p. 169. (Latham.) 
2. To be estranged or alienated. 
Strange (stranj), adr. [< strange, a.] Strangely. 
She will speak most bitterly and strange. 
Shak., M. for M., v. 1. 86. 
Strangefult (stranj'ful), a. [< strange + -ful] 
Strange; wonderful. [Bare.] 
Frantick France ! why dost not Thou make vse 
Of strangefull Signes, whereby the Eeav'ns induce 
Thee to repentance? 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, L 2. 
Strangely (stranj'li), adr. In a strange man- 
ner, in any sense of the word strange. 
strangeness (stranj'nes), n. The state or char- 
acter of being strange, in any sense of that 
word. 
stranger (stran'jer), n. [< ME. stranger, straun- 
gcr, estraungcr, < OF. estranger, F. Stranger (= 
It. straniere), a stranger, foreigner, < estrange, 
strange: see strange.] 1. One who comes from 
another country or region ; a foreigner. 
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing. 
Lev. MiL 10. 
And there ben nouther Thefes ne Eobboures in that 
Contree ; and every man worschipethe other ; but no man 
there dothe no reverence to no Straungeres, but zif thei 
ben grete Princes. MandemUe, Travels, p. 260. 
I am a most poor woman, and a stranger, 
Born out of your dominions. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., IL 4. 15. 
2. A person with whom one is not acquainted ; 
one whose name and character are unknown. 
I do desire we may be better strangers. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 275. 
" As I hope to be sav'd," the stranger said, 
"One foot 1 will not flee." 
J?oWn Hood and the Stranger (Child's Ballads, V. 406X 
The name of envy is a stranger here. 
Fletcher (and another ?X Nice Valour, v. 2. 
3. One who is ignorant (of) or unacquainted 
(with): with to. 
I am no stranger to such easy calms 
As sit in tender bosoms. 
Ford, Broken Heart, 111. 4. 
Unspeak mine own detraction, here abjure 
The taints and blames I laid upon myself, 
For strangers to my nature. 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 3. 125. 
They say she 't quite a stranger to all his gallantries. 
Swift, Polite Conversation, iii. 
4. One not belonging to the house; a guest; a 
visitor. 
A messlnger passed forth tho by, 
Wher GarTray with gret toth was in his manere 
At ioyous disport ryght full merily 
At Luslgnen Castell with strangers many. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6017. 
Fit to honour and receive 
Our heavenly stranger. Milton, P. L. , v. S16. 
