strict 
Strict passage (the ear] thruugh which sighs are brought, 
And whispers for the heart, their slave. 
Wordsworth, i'ower of Sound, i. 
4. Close; intimate. 
There never was a more strict friendship than between 
those Gentlemen. 
Steele, in A. Dobson's Selections from Steele, Int. , p. xl. 
5. Absolute; unbroken: as, strict silence. 6. 
Exact; accurate; careful; rigorously nice : as, 
words taken in their strictest sense; a s/rii-l 
command. 
I wish I had not look'd 
With such strict eyes into her follies. 
Beau, anil Fl., Thierry and Theodoret, i. 2. 
And fall into deception unaware, 
Not keeping strictest watch. 
Milton, P. L., ix. 363. 
7. Exacting; rigorous; severe; rigid: as, strict 
in keeping the Sabbath ; a strict disciplinarian. 
Within these ten days take a monastery, 
A most strict house. 
Beau, and Fl., Thierry and Theodoret, i 1. 
Not over-ruled by fate 
Inextricable, or strict necessity. 
Milton, P. L, v. 528. 
Strict statutes and most biting laws. 
SAo*., M. forM., i. 3. 19. 
8. Restricted; taken strictly, narrowly, or ex- 
clusively : as, a strict generic or specific diag- 
nosis. 9. In 007., constricted ; narrow or 
close ; straitened ; not loose or diffuse : as, the 
strict stem of some corals. 10. In hot., close 
or narrow and upright: opposed to lax: said 
of a stem or an inflorescence. 11. In music, 
regular; exactly according to rule; without lib- 
erties: as, a strict canon or fugue A strict 
hand. See hand. Strict constructionist, counter- 
point, cross-examination. See the nouns. Strict 
creditor's bill. See creditor's action, under creditor. 
Strict foreclosure, fugue, sense, etc. See the nouns. 
Strict imitation. See imitation, s. strict settle- 
ment, in law, a device in English conveyancing by which 
the title to landed estates is preserved in the family by 
conveying it in such manner that the father holds an 
estate for life and the eldest son a contingent or expectant 
estate in remainder, with interests also in other members 
of the family, so that usually only by the concurrence of 
father and son, and often of trustees also, can complete 
alienation be made. = Syn. 8. Close, scrupulous, critical. 
7. Severe, Rigorous, etc. See austere. 
striction (strik'shon), 7i. [< L. strictio(n-), a 
drawing or pressing together, < stritigere, pp. 
strictus, draw tight, contract: see strict.] A 
drawing or pressing together.-Une of striction 
01 a ruled surface, the locus of points on the generators 
of a ruled surface where each is nearest to the next con- 
secutive generator. 
strictlandt, . [< strict + land: prob. suggested 
by island.] An isthmus. Halliwell. [Bare.] 
strictly (strikt'li), adi: In a strict manner, 
(a) Narrowly; closely; carefully: as, the matter is to be 
itnctly investigated. (6) Exactly ; with nice or rigorous 
accuracy, exactness, or precision : as, strictly speaking all 
men are not equal. 
Horace hath but more strictly spoke our thoughts. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. 
(c) Positively ; definitely ; stringently. 
Charge him strictly 
Not to proceed, but wait my farther pleasure. 
Vryden, Spanish Friar, iii. 3. 
(d) Eigorously ; severely ; without remission or indul- 
gence ; with close adherence to rule. 
I wish those of my blood that do offend 
Should be more strictly punish'd than my foes. 
Beau, and Fl., Woman-Hater, Iv. 1. 
() Exclusively ; out-and-out ; thoroughly. 
Cornwall . . . was a strictly British land, with a British 
nomenclature, and a British speech which lingered on into 
the last century. E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 149. 
strictness (strikt'nes), . The state or quality 
of being strict, in any sense. 
Stricture (strik'tur), 71. [= F. stricture = It. 
strcttura, < L. strictura. a contraction, < slrin- 
gere, draw tight, contract : see strict. Cf. strait- 
ure.] If. A drawing tight ; contraction; com- 
pression; binding. 
Christ came to knit the bonds of government faster 
by the stricture of more religious ties. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 207. 
2. Inpatltol, a morbid contraction of some mu- 
cous canal or duct of the body, as the esopha- 
gus, intestine, urethra, or vagina. 3f. Strict- 
ness. 
A man of stricture and firm abstinence. 
Shak., M. for M., i. 3. 12. 
4. Sharp criticism; critical remark; censure. 
. VTi eit [ utow< *phy] wholly, both as to the matter 
and stile, to your emendations. ... By your blots and 
strictures it may receive a beauty which of Itself It had 
J. Cotton, in Aubrey's Letters and Lives, I. 20. 
5f. Mark; trace; evidence; sign. 
The God of nature implanted in their vegetable natures 
fh- 3 ^.Passive sfrirfures. or signatures, of that wisdom 
vhich hath made and ordered all things with the highest 
reason. Sir M. Hale, Orig. of Mankind, p. 46. 
5990 
Cock's, Syme's, ami Wheelhouse's operations for 
stricture. See operation.- Resilient, spasmodic, etc., 
Stricture. See the adjectives. (See also tridle^tricture. > 
Strictured (strik'turd), . [< stricture + -eifi.] 
Affected with stricture: as, a slricttin-d duct. 
Strid. A preterit (obsolete) and past participle 
of stride. 
Striddle (strid'l), r. \ pret. and pp. xtridil/rd. 
ppr. striddling. [Freq. <>( stri<l<: Cf. strnddlc.\ 
To straddle. [Prov. Eng.] 
stride (strid), r.; pret. strode ( formerly also strid), 
pp. stridden or strid, ppr. striding. [< M.E.st>'iil>'ii 
(piet. strode, xtrtxtd, strndc), < AS. stridan (pret. 
strdd, pp. striden), stride, = MD. stridcn, i>. xtrij- 
den = MLG. striden (pret. xtreed), stride, strive, 
= OHG. stritan, MHG. striten, G. strcitcn = Dan. 
stride, strive, contend; also in weak form, OS. 
strithifin = OFries. strida = Icel. xtridlut = Sw. 
strida, strive; orig. appar. contend, hence, in 
a particular use, go hastily, take long steps. 
Hence the comp. bestride and freq. striilil/c. 
also straddle, bestraddle; and, through OP., 
Ktrire&nd strife.] I. intrans. 1. To walk with 
long steps ; step. 
There was no Greke so grym, ne of so gret wille, 
Durst abate on tho buerues, ne to bonke stride 
Ne afforse hym with fight to ferke out of ship. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 5687. 
Hell trembled as he strode. Milton, P. L., it 676. 
2. To stand with the feet far apart; straddle. 
Because th' acute, and the rect-Angles too, 
Stride not so wide as obtuse Angles doo. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Columnes. 
The arches, striding o'er the new-born stream. 
Burns, Verses Written In Kenmore Inn. 
Striding level, a spirit-level the frame of which carries 
at Its two extremities inverted Y's below, so that it may 
be placed upon two concentric cylinders and straddle any 
small intervening projections. The striding level Is a 
necessary adjunct of the transit-instrument when this is 
used for determining time, and is used in many leveling- 
instruments. 
II. trans. 1. To pass over at a step: as, to 
stride a ditch. 
Another, like an Embrian's sturdy Spouse, 
Strides all the Space her Petticoat allows. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love, iii. 
2. To sit astride on ; bestride ; straddle ; ride 
upon. 
And pity, like a naked new-born babe, 
Striding the blast Shot., Macbeth, t 7. 22. 
stride (strid), n. [< stride, v.] 1. A step, es- 
pecially one that islong, measured, or pompous ; 
a wide stretch of the legs in walking. 
Simplicity flies away, and iniquity comes at long strides 
upon us. Sir T. Brmrne, Urn-Burial, Ded. 
Her voice theatrically loud, 
And masculine her stride. 
Pope, Imit of Earl of Dorset 
A lofty bridge, stepping from cliff to cliff with a single 
Longfellow, Hyperion, iii. 2. 
2. The space measured or the ground covered 
by a long step, or between putting down one 
foot and raising the other. 
Betwixt them both was but a little stride, 
That did the house of Riehesse from hell-month divide 
Spenser, F. Q,., n. vii. 24. 
Strident (stri'dent), a. [= P. strident = Sp. 
Pg. estridente = It. stridente, < L. strideit(U)s, 
ppr. of stridere, give a harsh, shrill, or whistling 
sound, creak.] Creaking; harsh; grating. 
"Brava ! brava !" old Steyne's strident voice was heard 
roaring over all the rest. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, It 
Stridently (stri'dent-li), adi: Creakingly: 
harshly; gratingly. 
stridor (stri'dor), n. [L.,< stridere, givea harsh, 
shrill, or whistling sound, creak: see strident.] 
A harsh, creaking noise.- stridor dentium. grind- 
ing of the teeth : a common symptom during sleep in chil- 
dren affected with worms or other intestinal irritation 
It occurs also in fevers as a symptom of irritation of the 
brain. 
Stridulant (strid'u-lant), a. [< NL. as if "stri- 
di<lan(t-)s, ppr. of' *stridulare : see stridulate.] 
Strident or stridulous, as an insect ; capable of 
stridulating; specifically, of or pertaining to 
the Stridulantia. 
Stridulantia (strid-u-lan'shi-a), n. pi. [NL. 
(Burmeister, 1835) : 'see Stridulant.] A group 
of hemipterous insects, including various forms 
which have the faculty of stridulating; specifi- 
cally, the cicadas. See Cicadidx. 
stridulate (strid'u-lat), v. i. ; pret. and pp. 
stridulated, ppr. stridulating. [< NL. as if *stri- 
dulatus, pp. of 'stridulare, < L. stridulus, giving a 
shrill sound, creaking: see stridulous.'] To make 
a stridulous noise, as an insect ; effect stridu- 
lation. as the cicada; grate, scrape, or creak 
with the organs of stridulation ; shrill ; chirr. ,. 
Stridulating-organ ( strid 'u-la-ting-or'gan), . Striges (stri'jez), n.pl. [NL., < L. strix(stri,i-), 
In eutom., a finely wnnkled or file-like surface an owl.] The owls, or Strigida in a broad 
Striges 
or plate, frequently having a pearly luster. 
by friction of which against another surface 
brought into contact with it a creaking sound 
is produced. These organs are variously situ- 
ated on the wings, elytra, legs, abdomen, thorax, 
and even the head. 
Stridulation (strid-u-la'shon), M. [< stridulate 
+ -ion.] The act, process," or function of strid- 
ulating; the power of so doing, or the thin, 
harsh, creakingnoise thus produced; a shrillin^. 
Stridulation is effected by rubbing together hard or rough 
parts of the body, often specially modified in various ways 
for that pmpose, being thus not vocalization or phona- 
tion. It is highly characteristic of many homopteroua 
insects, as the cicadas; of many orthopterous insects, as 
various locusts or grasshoppers ; and of some coleopterous 
insects, or beetles. It rarely occurs in lepidopterous in- 
sects, but has been observed in some butterflies urnl moths 
and also in a few spiders, as of the genus Tlieridion. '1 hose 
homopterous insects in which it is specially marked are 
named Stridulantia. 
stridulator (strid'u-la-tor), 7i. [< stridulate + 
.] An insect which" stridulates, shrills, or 
chirrs; that which is stridulatory. 
stridulatory (strid'u-la-to-ri), . [< stridulate 
+ -ary.] Pertaining to stridulators or strid illa- 
tion; Stridulant or stridulous; shrill or shrill- 
ing; chirring. 
stridulous (strid 'u-lus), a. [< L. strididnx. 
creaking, rattling, hissing, < stridere, creak: see 
strident.] Making a small harsh sound ; having 
a thin, squeaky sound; squeaky; creaking. 
To make them [the old men] garrulous, as grasshoppers 
are stndulous. Chapman, Iliad, ill., Commentary. 
Stridulous angina. Same as laryngitmm stridulus 
(which see, under laryngismus). 
striet, v. t. A Middle English form of strew. 
Strife (strif), n. [< ME. strif, < OP. estrif, < Icel. 
strith, strife, contention, pain, grief. = Sw. Dan. 
strid, combat, contention, = OS. OFries. strid 
= D. strijd = OHQ. MHG. strit, G. strcit, strife, 
= OL. stlis (gen. sttit-), L. lis (lit-), strife, liti- 
gation (see litigate) ; from the verb, Icel. stridha, 
strive, contend, etc. : see stride. Cf. strive.] 1. 
A striving or effort to do one's best ; earnest at- 
tempt or endeavor. 
With strife to please you, day exceeding day 
Shak., All's Well, Epa 
2. Emulative contention or rivalry; active 
struggle for superiority; emulation. 
Weep with equal strife 
Who should weep most. Shale., Lucrece, 1. 1791. 
Thus gods contended (noble strife, 
Worthy the heavenly mind !) 
Who most should do to soften anxious life. 
Gangrene, To the Earl of Godolphin. 
3. Antagonistic contention ; contention char- 
acterized by anger or enmity; discord; con- 
flict; quarrel: as, strife of the elements. 
Sith for me ye fight, to me this grace 
Both yield, to stay your deadly strufe a space. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vl. 33. 
Twenty of them fought in this black strife. 
Shale., R. and J., ilL 1. 18a 
To take strifet, to enter into conflict. 
For which he took with Rome and Cesar stryf. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 695. 
= Syn. 2 and 3. Strife, Contention. These words agree in 
being very general, in having a good sense possible, and 
in seeming elevated or poetical when applied to the or- 
ganized quarrels of war or to anything more than oral 
disputes. Strife is the stronger. Contention often indi- 
cates the more continued and methodical effort, and 
hence is more often the word for rivalry in effort to pos- 
sess something. Such a rivalry, when definite in form 
and limited in time, is a contest: as, the contests of the 
Greek games. A contention that Is forcible, violent, ex- 
hausting, or attended with real or figurative convulsions 
or contortions, is a struggle. See battlel , encounter. 
Strifeful (strif 'ful), a. [< strife + -//.] Full 
of strife ; contentious ; discordant. 
But stryfull mind and diverse qualitee 
Drew them in partes, and each made others foe. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. U. 18. 
Strig (strig), 71. [Origin obscure.] 1. The 
footstalk of a flower, leaf, or fruit. Ure, Diet., 
I. 302. 2. The tang of a sword-blade. See 
tang. 
Strig (strig), r. t. ; pret. and pp. strigged, ppr. 
stringing. [< strig, n.] To remove the foot- 
stalk from : as, to strig currants. 
Striga (strl'gii), n. ; pi. strigx (-je). [NL., < L. 
striga, a swath, furrow, < strinyere, draw tight, 
contract: see strict.] 1. In hot., a sharp- 
pointed appressed bristle or hair-like scale, 
constituting a species of pubescence in plants. 
2. In zool., a streak or stripe; a stria. 3. 
In arch., a flute of a column, 
strigate (stri'gat), a. [< NL. "strigatus, < L. 
striga, a furrow: see striga.] In entom., same 
as strigose. 
