stretcher 
tight. By driving amnll wedges in at the angles the ten- 
sion is increased, (d) One of the rods In an umbrella at- 
tached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to 
the tube eliding upon the handle, (e) In a vehicle, a joint- 
ed rod which when extended expands the carriage-bows, 
and thus spreads the hood or cover. (/) A short piece of 
wood placed in the clue of a hammock to extend it. 
2. Iii iniixoiirii, a brick or stone laid horizontal- 
ly with its length in the direction of the face of 
the wall, as distinguished from a header, which is 
laid lengthwise across the thickness of the wall, 
so that its small head or end is seen in the exter- 
nal face of the wall. See cut under inboml. 3. 
One of the cylindrical rails between the legs of a 
chair; around. E. H. Knight. 4. In ciiliinct- 
iiKiking, a low shelf serving as a brace or stay to 
the legs of a table, and roomy enough to hold a 
vase, a basket of flowers, or other ornament. 
5. Incarp.,atie-timberinaframe. 6. Kant., a, 
narrow piece of plank placed across a boat for 
the rowers to set their feet against ; also, a cross- 
piece placed between a boat's sides to keep them 
apart when the boat is hoisted up and griped. 
7. A light, simple litter, without inclosure or 
top, upon which a dead body or a wounded per- 
son can be carried : so called because generally 
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Strew (strii or stro), v. ; pret. strewed, pp. strem <1 
strict 
Striated flber, striated muscular fiber, striated 
muscle, the stripi-d lib'-r ctunetcrtetlc "f the rmuntu] 
muscles, tliou-h ulso found in a few oilier red muscles 
InvoTunUry, u the rmuofai. 
Striated ipecacuanha. See ipecacuanha. Striated 
sandpiper*. See sandpiper. 
In a striate manner: 
striate-plicate (stri'at-pli'kat), a. In b<>t., 
orstreini, pfT.streiDing. [Also archaically straw. 
formerly or dial, also straic ; < ME. strcweii, 
itrawen, xtn-mri'ii, < AS. strain-inn, also str'>- 
iviiiii, "strewiun (Somner) = OS. atn n-inii, xtrn- 
u-inn = OFries. strewa = D. strooijen = OHG. Striately (stn :it-h), ailr 
strewen, MHG. striii/icm, xlrniiircii, G. streuen = wit" stria;. 
Icel. stra = Sw. Dan. stro = Goth, xlrniijini f , 
(pret. slrawiila), > It. sdrajarc, stretch, strew ; stnat.- by reason of minute 
cf.OBulg. s<rc<i, strew,<L.ster-frc (pret. sfr</n, striate-punctate (stri at-pungk' tat) 
pp. stratus'), scatter (see stratum), = Gr. nm/n :- 
vivat, arpuwi'vai, strew, scatter, = Skt. V "''"' 
scatter. The relation of the Tent, to the va- 
, ian I L. and Gr. roots is not wholly clear. Hence Striate-sulcate (sin at-sul"kat), a 
ult. straw 1 , n. The three pronunciations stro, striate witl 
stro, stra are due to the instability of the AS. 
vowel or diphthong before ir, and its wavering 
in ME.] I. trans. 1. To scatter; spread loose- 
ly: said of dry, loose, separable things: as, to 
strew seed in beds; to strew sand on the floor; 
to strew flowers over a grave. 
I bad hem strowe floures on my bed. 
Chaucer, Good Women (1st version), 1. 101. 
And a very great multitude spread their garments in 
______ _ . In 
i-iiliiin. .Tmving rows of punctures set in regular 
lines very close together, sometimes elongated 
iir running into one another. 
In hut., 
i spr 
the way ; others cut down branches from the trees, and 
composed of canvas stretched on a frame, or strawed [spread, R. V.] them In the way. Mat. xxi. 8. 
because the body is stretched out upon it. Such 2. To cover in spots and patches here and there, 
frames, covered with canvas, are often used as 
beds, as in camping. 8. A flat board on which 
as if by sprinkling or casting loosely about. 
And [they] made soche martire that all the feilde was 
corpses are stretched or laid out preparatory xtrowed full of deed men and horse. 
to coffining. 9. In angling: (a) The leader at 
the extreme end of the line, (h) The tail-fly; 
the fly that is fastened to the cast called the 
stretcher; a stretcher-fly. See tail-fly (under 
flyl) and whip. 10. A statement which over- 
stretches the truth; a lie. [Colloq.] 11. In 
carriage-building, same as strainer, 4. strewing (stro'ing or stro'ing), n. [Verbal n. 
Stretcher-bond (strech'er-bond), i. A method of strew .] Anything strewed, or suitable to 
of building in which bricks or stones are laid 
lengthwise in contiguous courses, the joints of 
one coming at half length of the bricks or stones 
in the other. See cuts under bond. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), ii. 294. 
Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers. 
Shalt., L. L. L., iv. 3. 380. 
3. To spread abroad; give currency to. 
She may strew 
Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds. 
Shak., Hamlet, Iv. 5. 14. 
Striation (stri-a'shon), n. [< strintf + -inn.] 
1. The state of being striated ; a striate condi- 
tion or appearance; striature; also, one of a 
set of strue; a stria. 2. In geol., grooves, flut- 
ings, and scratches made on the surfaces of 
rocks by the passage over them of bodies of 
ice: a result frequently observed along the 
sides of existing glaciers, and in regions which 
were formerly occupied by ice. 3. In mineral., 
fine parallel lines on a crystalline face, com- 
monly due to the oscillatory combination of 
two crystalline forms. 
striatopunctate(stri-a''t6-pungk'tat), a. Same 
as striate-punctate. 
striattun (stri-a'tum), n.; pi. striata (-ta). [L. 
striatum (sc. corpus), neut. of striatus, streaked : 
see striate.] The great ganglion of the fore- 
brain: more fully called corpus striatum. 
striature (stri'a-tur), . [< L. striatura, con- 
dition of being furrowed or channeled, < striare, 
pp. striatus, furrow, channel : see striate.'] Dis- 
position of strise ; mode of striation ; striation ; 
also, a stria. 
stricht, [Irreg. < L. strix (strig-), a screech- 
owl.] A screech-owl. 
The ruefull etrich, still waiting on the here. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. xli. 36. 
be strewed (for some special purpose). 
The herbs that have on them the cold dew o' the night 
Are gtrewirvjs fltt'st for graves. 
Shot., Cymbeline, iv. 2. 285. 
Stretcher-fly (strech'er-fli), n. The fly on the strewment (strb'meut or stro'ment), n. [< strick (strik), n. [A var. of strike. C. strickle.] 
stretcher of a casting-line, at the extreme end. strew + -ment.] The act of strewing, or some- 1. A flat piece of wood for leveling grain in a 
Stretcher-mule (strech'er-mul), . In cotton- thing strewn Maiden strewmentst. See maiden. 
manuf., a mule which stretches and twists fine strewn (stron or stron). A past participle of 
rovings, advancing them a stage toward finish- strew. 
ing. E. H. Knight. streytet. A Middle English spelling of strait 1 . 
Stretch-halter (strech'hal"ter), . [< stretch, stria (stri'a), M. ; pi. strix (-e). [= F. strie, < L. 
v., + obj. hatter 1 .'] One who ought to be stria, a furrow, channel, hollow.] 1. In ana*., 
hanged; a scoundrel. Also crack-rope, wag- ^o67.,and6o(.,astripeorstreak; aline,or linear 
halter, etc. marking, whether of elevation or depression 
Sfoot, look here, look here, I know this is the shop, by as a ridge or a furrow or of texture or color. 
that same stretch-halter. gee cuts under brain, muscle 1 , and Diatomaceie. 
H eiiwood, If you Know not Me (Works, ed. 1874), I. 283. _ 2 In ^.^ & fillet between the flutes of 
stretching-frame (strech'ing-fram), n. 
, 1.- In columns, pilasters, and the like. 3. In pa- 
cotton-mannf., a machine for stretching rovmgs thol., a linear hemorrhagic macula. 4. An im- gtricken (strik'n), p. a. [Pp. of strike, v.] 
previous to spinning them into yarn. 2. A perfection in the form of a streak or band, struck; smitten: as, the stricken deer. 2. 
frame on which starched fabrics are stretched whether a discoloration or an irregularity of 
to dry. It is sometimes arranged so that the direction structure, especially in glass. 5. pi. In elect., 
of the' tension can^be changed In order to give the fabric tne p ecu ii ar stratifications of the light observed 
in vacuum-tubes (Geissler tubes) upon the pas- 
sage of an electrical discharge Confluent, di- 
lated, distinct striae. Seethe adjectives. Dislocated 
stria. See dislocate. Glacial striae, nearly parallel 
a soft and elastic finish. 
Stretching-iron (strech'ing-I"ern), . In lea- 
ther -manvf.: (a) A curriers' tool for stretching 
curried leather, smoothing the surface, remov- 
ing rough places, and raising the bloom. It 
lines, varying in depth and coarseness, engraved on rock- 
measure ; a strickle. 
A stritchill ; a stricke : a long and round peece of wood 
like a rolling pinne (with us it is flat), wherewith measures 
are made even. Nomenclator. (Naret.) 
2f. A bushel measure. 
One cheesepress, one coffer, one strick, and one fourme 
[form] Worcestershire Wills of IVth and nth Cento., 
[quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., X. 368. 
3. A handful or bunch of flax, jute, or other 
fiber, heckled and sorted, or ready to be heckled. 
The heckler stakes a handful or strick of rough flat 
Eneyc. Brit., XIV. 666. 
1. 
_ 7 Ad- 
vanced ; far gone. 
I channced to espye this foresayde Peter talkynge with 
a certayne Straunger, a man well stricken in age. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), p. 29. 
Stricken hour, a whole hour, marked as completed by 
the striking of the clock. 
He persevered for a stricken hour in such a torrent of 
unnecessary tattle. Scott. 
ed; specifically, a machine in which cotton goods 
and other textile fabrics are stretched, to lay all 
their warp- and woof-yarns truly parallel. 
Stretching-piece (strech'ing-pes), n. See 
strut*, 2. 
stretchy (strech'i), a. [< stretch + -*/ 1 .] 1. 
Liable to stretch unduly. 
A workman with a true eye can often counteract stretchy 
stock. Harper's Mag. , LXX. 282. 
2. Inclined to stretch one's self: a consequence 
of fatigue or sleepiness. [Colloq. in both uses.] 
accessorius of the auditory nerve. Also called tinea trans- 
verse, strise meduttares.StTiBi musculares, the trans- 
verse striie or stripes of striped muscular fiber. See cut 
under musclel. Stria lateralis, a lateral stria on the 
surface of the corpus callosum, running lengthwise on 
either side of the stria longitudinales. Stria longl- 
tudinalis, Btrla Lancisi. Same as nerve of Lanciti 
(which see, under nerve). Stria medullaris thalami, 
a band of white fibers running backward along the junc- 
tion of the median and superior surfaces of the thalamus 
to end in the habenular ganglion. 
(trial (stri'al), a. [< stria + -al.] Of the na- 
ture of striaB ; marked by striee. Amcr. Jour. 
1. A straight-edge used to sweep grain off level 
with the top of a measure when measuring 
grain. 2. A wooden swingle for dressing flax. 
3. In carp, and masonry, a pattern or tem- 
plate. 4. In founding: (a) A straight-edge 
used to remove superfluous sand to a level with 
the top of a flask after ramming the sand into it. 
Compare loam-board, (b) A template or pat- 
tern used in sweeping patterns in sand or loam. 
5. In cutlery, a straight-edge fed with emery, 
and employed to grind the edges of knives ar- 
ranged spirally on a cylinder. E. B. Knight. 
Strickler (strik'ler), . [Also strikler; < 
if fatigue or sleepiness, [couoq. in les.j ture of striae ; marked by 
But in the night the pup would get stretchy and brace Sci., XXXI. 135. [Bare.] 
his feet against the old man's back and shove, grunting s t r j a t e (stri'at), . [= F. strie, < L. striatus, 
complacently the while. S. L. Clemens, Eoughing it, xxvn. pp of sfriare> f urrow , channel, < stria, a furrow, "g^ickle + ^r 1 '.] ~ A'strickle or strike. Handle 
Stretta(stret'ta),w.; pi. strette (-te). [It., fern, channel, hollow: see stria.'] 1. Striped or ff olme< Acad. of Armory, p. 337. (Nares.) 
of stretto, drawn tight: see strait 1 , strict.] Same streaked; marked with strisa; scored with fine [Local, Eng.] 
ao cir0i.t.n i;,,,,o- otinT^ftH. an muscle : striated. 2. Hav- n *.^; n i / I ,*-:i^*\ 
as stretto. 
tretto (stret'to), n.; pi. stretti (-ti). [It., < 
L. strictus, drawn tight: see straifi, strict.'] 
In music : (a) In a fugue, that division in which 
the entrances of the answer are almost imme- 
diatelv after those of the subject, so that the 
lines; striped, as muscle; striated. 2. Hav- 
ing a thread-like form. 
Des Cartes imagines this earth once to have been a sun, 
and so the centre of a lesser vortex, whose axis still kept 
the same posture, by reason of the striate particles find- 
ing no fit pores for their passages but only in this direc- 
tlon. 
two overlap, producing a rapidly cumulative ^ (g t ri 'at), t>. .; pret. and pp. striated, ppr. 
effect. The stretto properly follows the "working out. r?T *llini>,s rm of striare O 
When a stretto is constructed in strict canon, it is some- 
times called a stretto maestrale or maifistrale. (b) In . /; , -- , 
dramatic music, a quickening of the tempo at nel: see stria.} To mark wvtl L strise ; cause 
the end of a movement for the sake of climax, stnation in; score; stripe. Nature, XXX. <M. 
strict (strikt), a. [= F. strict (OF. streit, etc.), 
< L. strictus, pp. of stringere, draw tight, bind, 
contract: see stringent, strain*. Cf. straift, the 
older form of the same word.] 1 . Drawn tight j 
tight; close: as, a strict ligature. Arbuthnot. 
The lustful god, with speedy pace, 
Just thought to strain her in a strict embrace. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid s Metamorph., i. 976. 
2. Tense; stiff: as, a strict or lax fiber. 3. 
Narrow; restricted; confined; strait. [Obso- 
lete or archaic.] 
