Striges 
sense, as a suborder of Hii/iforex ; the uoctmiiul 
birds of prey. The physiognomy is peculiar by reason 
of the lateral expansion, lengthwise contraction, and di- 
ploic thickening of the skull, which is often asymmetri- 
cal. The eyes look forward, not laterally as in other 
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birds, and are set in a peculiar disk of radiated feathers 
more or less completely formed, the feathers of the front 
being antrorsc and adpressed, hiding the base of the bill. 
This is the facial disk, of which some radiating feathers 
of peculiar shape and texture constitute a rutf. The eyes 
are very large, with a peculiarly shaped eyeball, the cor- .,*..,,,,, /,(_; 
nea being protuberant, and with the sclerotic presenting sl IgOUS (.Ml is;, . 
a figure somewhat like a short acorn in its cup; the iris 
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and the birds have not the power uf Ili^ht. See cut under 
owl-parrot. 
Strigose (stri'gos), (i. [< NL. xtrigmtiis, < xtrign. 
q. v.] 1. In hot., rough with strigse; bcsri 
with sharp-pointed and appressed straight and 
stiff hairs or bristles: as, a strigosc leaf or 
stem. 2. In en torn., streaked, or finely fluted ; 
having fine, close parallel ridges or points, like 
the surface of a file. Also xtrigtife. 
_ _ _ [< NL. xtr/<tnsnx: see 
xtngnxe.~\ Same as 
a figure somewhat like a short acorn in its cup; the iris strigose.] same us gtngost. 
is capable of great movement, dilating and contracting strike (strik), r. ; pret. xtrnck, pp. xtrui-k, xtrirki n 
the pupil more than is usual in birds. The ear-parts are (obg- or dia i. gtriteken), ppr. striking. [< ME. 
very large, often unlike on opposite sides of the head, ,/,.:/..,,. /,.../., /,, ro t J/ivii- c/i-nZv ttrtOe* r 
ami nrovided with a movable external Han. the onercu- "">c/l, Kfryicen vpiei. xirilh, snuhl, Biruicv, J>|>. 
very large, often unlike on oppoi 
and provided with a movable external fiap, the opercu- 
lum, sometimes of great extent. The tufts of feathers, 
or so-called "ears," of many owls are the eorniplumes or 
plumicorns. The bill is peculiar in that the nostrils open 
at the edge of the cere rather than in its substance, and 
the tomia are never toothed. There are four toes, of 
which the outer is versatile and shorter than the inner, 
with three of its joints together shorter than the fourth 
joint. The claws are all long, sharp, and curved, and the 
middle one is sometimes pectinate. The feathers lack 
aftershafts, and the plumage is peculiarly soft and blend- 
ed, conferring a noiseless Might. The birds have no am- 
biens muscle, one pair of intrinsic syringeal muscles, a 
nude oil-gland, long clubbed caeca, short Intestines, mod- 
erately muscular gizzard, capacious gullet without spe- 
cial crop, a peculiar structure of the tarsometatarsl and 
shoulder-joint, a manubriated and double-notched or en- 
tire sternum, basipterygoid processes, and spongy maxil- 
lopalatines and lacrymals. The suborder is divided into 
two familiej, Striyidse and Aluconidje. Nyctharpaijes is a 
synonym. See cuts under barn-oui, braccate, Buoo'*, hawk- 
oid, Otiut, Xyctala, oivli, snow-owl, and Strix. 
Strigidae (strij'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Strix (Strig-) 
+ -idle.] The owls as a family of strigine or 
nocturnal birds of prey of the order Kaptores : 
used in three senses, (a) Same as St.riges, including 
all owls, (b) Same as Aluconidee, including only the barn- 
owls, (c) Including all owls excepting the Aluconidie. 
In this sense the distinctive characters are the furculum 
not ankylosed to the double-notched or fenestrate ster- 
num, the middle claw not pectinate, and the facial disk 
incomplete or not triangular. 
Strigil (strij'il), . [< L. strigilis (= Gr. or/leyyi'f), 
a scraper, < stringere, draw tight, contract, 
touch, graze, stroke: see strict.] 1. An in- 
strument of metal, ivory, or horn, used by the 
ancients for scraping the skin at the bath and 
in the gymnasium ; a flesh-scraper. See cut 
under Lysippan. 2f. A flesh-brush, or a glove 
of hair-cloth, rough toweling, or other article 
used for stimulating the skin by rubbing. 
You are treated after the eastern manner, washing with 
hot and cold water, with oyles, and being rubbed w'i> a 
kind of strigil of seal's-skin, put on the operator's hand 
like a glove. Evelyn, Diary, June, 1645. 
Strigilate (strij'i-lat), a. [< NL. *strigilatus, 
< strigilis, q. v.] In entom., noting the front 
leg of a bee when it is furnished with a strigilis. 
strigilis (strij'i-lis), n. ; pi. strigiles (-lez). [NL., 
< L. strigilis, a scraper: see strigil.'] An or- 
gan on the first tarsal joint of a bee's fore leg, 
used to curry or clean the antennas; a curry- 
comb: so called on account of the fringe of 
stiff hairs. At the end of the tibia is a movable spur, 
and on this spur an expanded membrane, the velum, which 
can be brought into contact with the strigilis, forming a 
circular orifice. The bee lays the antenna in the hollow 
of the strigilis, presses the velum of the spur upon it, and 
draws the antenna through the aperture thus formed. 
strigilose (strij'i-los), a. [Also, erroneously, 
strok, stroke, stroke, pp. 
, xtricke>i),~< AS. strican (prot. stnic. pp. 
strieen), go, proceed, advance swiftly and 
smoothly, = Or ries. striku = L>. xtrijkcit = MLU. 
xtriki-ii, L(i. xtriken = OHG. strilihan (strong), 
streiclion (weak), MHG. stricken, gtreiclien, G. 
streicJien, smooth, rub, stroke, spread, strike ; cf . 
Icel. strjuka, strykja = Sw. stryKa = Dan. stryge, 
stroke, rub, wipe, Goth, striks, a stroke, tittle, 
akin to L. stringere, draw tight, graze, stroke, 
etc. (see stringent, strain^, strict). Cf. streak^, 
streak 2 , stroke*, stroke 2 , stroke, etc. The senses 
of strike are much involved, the orig. sense 'go,' 
'go along,' being commonly lost from view, or 
retained only as associated with the sense 
'hit.'] I. intrans. 1. Togo; proceed; advance; 
in modern use, especially, to go or move sud- 
denly, or with a sudden turn. 
A mous that moche good couthe, as me thoujte, 
Stroke forth sternly, and stode bifoni hem alle. 
Piers Plowman (B), Prol., 1. 183. 
To avoyd them, we struck out of the way, and crossed 
the pregnant champian to the foot of the mountaines. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 158. 
By God's mercy they recovered themselves, and, having 
the flood with them, struck into the harbour. 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 47. 
Whether the poet followed the romancer or the chroni- 
cler in his conception of a dramatic character, he at the 
first step struck into that undeviating track of our human- 
ity amid the accidents of its position. 
/. 1)' Israeli, Amen, of Lit., II. 239. 
A dispatch from Newfoundland says that the caplin 
have struck in. This means that the cod, the most famous 
of all commercial flsh. has arrived on the banks. 
Sn. Amer., N. S., LVIII. 352. 
2f. To flow ; glide ; run. 
Ase strem that striketh still e. 
Morris and Skeat's Specimens Early Eng., ii. 48. 
3. To pass with sudden quickness and effect; 
dart; pierce. 
Till a dart strike through his liver. Prov. vii. 23. 
How the bright and blissful Reformation (by Divine 
Power) strook through the black and settled Night of Ig- 
norance and Anti-christian Tyranny. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., i. 
4. To come suddenly or unexpectedly. 
We had struck upon a well-beaten track on entering the 
hills. B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 117. 
5. To run or extend in any particular direc- 
tion, especially with reference to the points of 
the compass : a word used chiefly by geologists 
in speaking of the strata, or of stratified masses, 
but also by miners in indicating the position of 
the lode or vein. The latter, however, gener- 
-, . , , 
strigillose; dim. of strigose.] In hot., minutely ally use run in preference to strike. 6. To low- 
ct 
strigose. 
strigine (strij'in), a. [< L. strix (strig-) + -ine 2 .] 
Owl-like ; related to or resembling an owl. 
(a) Of or pertaining to the Striges, or Strigidse in ft broad 
sense. (6) In a narrow sense, belonging to the Strigidte 
(c); distinguished from alucine. 
strigmentt (strig'ment), n. [< L. strigmentum, 
that which is scraped off, a scraping, < stringere, 
draw tight, contract, graze, stroke: see strigil."] 
Scraping; that which is scraped off. 
Brassavolus and many other, beside the strigments and 
sudorous adhesions from men's hands, acknowledge that 
nothing proceedeth from gold in the usual decoction there- 
of. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 5. 
Strigopida (stri-gop'i-de), n. pi [NL. (Bona- 
parte, 1849), < Strigops + -idx.] The Strigopi- 
nse regarded as a family apart from Psittacidx. 
Strigopinse (strig-o-pi'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Stri- 
gops + -inse.] The owl-parrots; a subfamily 
of Psittacidee, or the only subfamily of Strigo- 
piilee, represented by the genus Strigops. Also 
StringopiinF. O. Finscli. 
Strigops (stri'gops), n. [NL. (G. R. Gray, 
1845); also Htrigopsis ; also Stringops and Strin- 
gopsis (Van der Hoeven, 1856); < Strix (Strig-), 
a screech-owl, + Gr. <1V, eye, face.] A genus of 
J'xin/iritlie, or made type of a family Strigopidx, 
containing the kakapo, or nocturnal flightless 
parrot of New Zealand, S. iiabroptiliig ; the owl- 
parrots: so called from the owlish physiogno- 
my. The sternal keel and the furculum are defective, 
er a sail, a flag, or colors in token of respect; 
hence, to surrender, as to a superior or an ene- 
my; yield. 
The enemy still came on with greater fury, and hoped 
by his number of men to carry the prize ; till at last the 
Englishman, finding himself sink apace, and ready to per- 
ish, struck. Steele, Spectator, No. 360. 
The Interest of our kingdom Is ready to strike to that 
of your poorest fishing towns. Swift. 
7. To touch; glance; graze; impinge by ap- 
pulse. 
Let us consider the red and white colours in porphyry : 
hinder light from striking on it, and its colours vanish. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. viii. 19. 
8. To run aground or ashore ; run upon a bank, 
rock, or other obstacle; strand: as, the ship 
struck at midnight. 9. To inflict a blow, stroke, 
or thrust ; attack : as, to strike in the dark. 
We have drawn our swords of God's word, and stricken 
at the roots of all evil to have them cut down. 
Latimer, Sermons, p. 249. 
He stroke at him, and missed him, d' ye mark? 
Chapman, Gentleman Usher, v. 1. 
A Surprize in War is like an Apoplexy in the Body, 
which strikes without giving Warning for Defence. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 70. 
By their designing leaders taught 
To strike at power which for themselves they sought 
Dryden, Astrsea Kedni, 1. 32. 
10. To hit; beat; tap: as, the hammer xtrikrx 
on the bell of a clock. 
strike 
They plunge their < >ai> all at OIK- instant into the Water, 
keeping i-rad time itli .-auli otlu-r: and that they may 
the better do this, there is one that M.lw on a small Gong, 
or a wooden Instrument, before every stroke of the Oar. 
IttllllJii'T, \ "KIWI'S, II. 1. 74. 
11. To sound by percussion, with or as with 
blows; be struck: us, the clock striki-s. 
One whose Tongue is strung vp like ;i clocke till tin- 
tinii'. mid then tlrikef. anil Hiiyes much uluii hff talkes 
little. ISp. Kurlf, MuTcj-i-ofiiuounijiliic, A .-tayt-d Man. 
A deep sound utriken like a rising knell ! 
Byriiu, childi- Harold, iii. 21. 
12. To use one's weapons; deal blows; fight: 
;is. to strike for one's country. 
God's arm strike with us! 'tis a fearful odds. 
Slink., Hen. V., iv. 3. 5. 
Is not he the same God still? Is his hand shortned that 
he cannot strike, or doth his heart fail that lie dare not 
punish? Siillin'.ifleet, Sermons, I. x. 
13. To press a claim or demand by coercive 
or threatening action of some kind ; in com- 
IIIDII usage, to quit work along with others, in 
order to compel an employer to accede to some 
demand, as for increase of pay, or to protest 
against something, as a reduction of wages: 
as, to strike for higher pay or shorter hours of 
work. 14. To steal, as by pocket-picking. 
[Slang.] 15f. To give the last plowing be- 
fore the seed is sown. Darirx. 
To harrow the ridges ere ever ye strike 
Is one piece of husbandry Suffolk doth like> 
Tusser, September's Husbandry, st. 9. 
16. To take root, as a slip of a plant. 
The young tops strike freely if they are taken off about 
three inches long, and Inserted singly in some sandy soil 
in small pots. The Field, March 12, 1887. (Encyc. Diet.) 
17. To fasten to stones, shells, etc., as young 
oysters; become fixed or set. 18f. To move 
with friction ; grate ; creak. 
The closet door striked as it uses to do, both at her com- 
ing in and going out. Aubrey, Misc., p. 83. 
19. In the United States army, to perform 
menial services for an officer; act as an offi- 
cer's servant: generally said of an enlisted 
man detailed for that duty. 20. To become 
saturated with salt, as fish in the process of 
pickling or curing. 21. To run; change or 
fade, as colors of goods in washing or cleaning. 
Workshop Receipts, 1st ser., p. 321. To be struck 
or stricken In years, to be far along in years ; to be of 
an advanced age. 
And they had no child, . . . and they both were well 
stricken in years. Luke i 7. 
The king 
Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen 
Well struck in yean. Shak., Kich. III., i. 1. 92. 
To strike amain. See amatni . To strike at, to make 
or aim a blow at; attempt to strike; attack : as, to strike 
at one's rival. To strike back, (a) To leturn blow for 
blow. (6) To refuse to lead, as flsh when, instead of follow- 
ing close along the leader and passing into the bowl of the 
weir, they retreat from the net, and with a sweep double 
the whole weir. To strike for, to start suddenly for ; 
make for : as, he struct; for home. (Colloq.] To strike 
home, to give a decisive and effective blow or thrust. 
Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. 
Shak., M. for M., i. 3. 41. 
To strike in. (o) To make a vigorous move, effort, or ad- 
vance. 
If he be mad, I will not be foolish, but strike in for a 
share. Brome, Northern Lass, iii. 2. 
He advises me to strike in for some preferment, now I 
have friends. Sirift, Journal to Stella, xxx. 
(b) To put in one's word suddenly ; interpose; interrupt. 
I proposed the embassy to Constantinople for Mr. Hen- 
shaw, but my Lord Winchelsea struck in. 
Evelyn, Diary, June 18, 1660. 
(c) To begin ; set about. 
It [the water of the Dead sea) bore me up in such a 
manner that when I struck in swimming, my legs were 
above the water, and I found it difficult to recover my 
feet. Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 36. 
(d) To fall in ; conform ; Join or unite. 
I always feared ye event of y Amsterdamers striking in 
Ciahman, quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 5". 
He struck in very zealously with the Presbyterians, went 
to their meetings, and was very liberal in his abuses, not 
only of the Archbishop, but of the whole order. 
E. Gibson, in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 227. 
(e) To arrive ; come in ; make for the shore : said of flsh. 
Those who have been on the Newfoundland coast when 
the caplin strikes in will not forget the excitement that 
ensued. Sri. Amer., N. S., LVIII. 352. 
To strike into, (a) To enter upon, as by some sudden 
act or motion ; break into : as, to strike into a run. 
It struck on a sudden into such reputation that it scorns 
any longer to sculk, but owns itself publickly. 
Government of the Tonyue. 
(M To turn Into quickly or abruptly ; betake one's self to 
in haste. 
It began raining, and I itruck into Mrs. Vanhomrigh's. 
and dined. 
To strike out. (a) In boxing, to deliver a blow from the 
shoulder. (6) To direct one's course, as in swimming : s. 
