stripe 
obie's Stripe. Same as Krause's membrane (which see, 
ider membi-ane). Spanish stripes. See Spanish. 
-jars and stripes. Sec atari. TO come to hand 
stripes*, to come to close quarters; fight hand to hand. 
Bretuie, tr. of ijuintus Curtius, ix. 
striue (strip), v. t. ; pret. and pp. striped, ppr. 
gtrvping. [<.itrijic,n.] 1 . To make stripes upon ; 
form with lines of different colors; variegate 
with stripes. 2. To strike; lash. [Rare.] 3f. 
To thrust, 
He has striped his bright brown brand 
Out through Clerk Saumlers' fair bodye. 
Clerk Saunden (Child's Ballads, IL 48> 
Droved and striped. See drow\ 
striped (stri'ped or stript), a. 1. Having 
stripes. See streaked. Striped and streaked are sy- 
nonymous, but differ slightly as stripe and streak do, the 
former implying greater firmness, evenness, and regular- 
ity of the markings indicated : as, a striped zebra ; streaked 
soap. Striped-barked maple, striped dogwood. 
Same as striped maple. Striped dormouse, function, 
jasper. See the nouns. Striped grass. Sameasn'6- 
boii-r/rass. Striped maple, mullet, perch, snake, 
splnebelly, etc. See the nouns. Striped muscle, 
striated muscle. See mumilar tissue (with cut), under 
muscular. Striped squirrel, the chipmunk. 
Striped-bass (stri'ped-bas), n. koccus Uneatus, 
the bass or rockfish. See cuts under bass and 
(jill. [U. S.] 
Stripetail (strip'tal), n. A humming-bird of 
the genus Ettpherusa, of which there are several 
species. 
strip-leaf (strip'lef), n. Tobacco from which 
the stalks have been removed before packing. 
strip-lights (strip'lits), n. pi. In a theater, 
rows of lights fastened behind wings. 
stripling (stripping), n. [Appar. < strip? + 
-ling 1 .] A youth in the state of adolescence, 
or just passing from boyhood to manhood ; a 
lad. Manderille, Travels, p. 278. 
And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the strip- 
ling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56. 
And now a stripling cherub he appears. 
Milton, P. L., Hi. 636. 
Stripper (strip'er), n. [< strip 1 + -er 1 .] One 
who strips, or an implement or machine used 
for stripping. Specifically (o) In wool-carding: (1) 
A small card-roll the function of which is to remove or 
strip the fiber from another roll In a carding-machine. 
The fiber thus stripped off is delivered to some other 
carding-roll or worker. In some carding-machines a strip- 
rr is used to take the wool from the licker-in and deliver 
to the breast-cylinder. (2) An automatic device for 
lifting the top cards or flats employed in some kinds of 
wool-carding machines. Also called angle-stripper. (b) 
A machine for smoothing down old and worn-out files 
to make them reaJy for recutting ; a file-stripper, (c) An 
implement used on osier-farms for stripping off willow- 
bark. One form is an annular scraper through which the 
willows or switches are drawn after starting the bark 
sufficiently to allow the wood tu pass through the scraper 
and be grasped by a pair of nippers. The bark thus 
stripped off is used for medicinal purposes, and the peeled 
switches are used for baskets and other willow wares. 
strippett (strip'et), n. [< stripZ + -et.] A 
small brook; a rivulet. Holiiished, Deserip. of 
Scotland, x. 
Stripping (stripping), . [Verbaln. of strip 1 , i\] 
1. That which is removed by stripping. 
Light strippings from the fan-trees. 
Brooming, Paracelsus, iv. 
2. pi. The last milk drawn from a cow, procured 
by a downward stripping action of the thumb 
and forefinger. 3. In Jish-cultitre, the opera- 
tion of pressing ripe spawn or milt out of the 
live fish. 4. In quarrying and mining, the act 
of removing the superficial detritus, soil, etc., 
Kreparatory to opening a mine or quarry, or to 
lybare the surface for examination; also, the. 
material thus removed. 
stripping-knife (strip'ing-nlf), n. A knife for 
separating the blades of sorghum from the stalks 
to prepare them for grinding. E. H. KnigM. 
stripping-plate (strip 'ing -plat), n. A 'fixed 
plate rigidly attached to a wheel or roller, to 
scrape or strip off any adhering material, as in 
paint-grinding mills, clay-crushers, and in some 
rolling-mills for metals which adhere to rollers. 
stripulose (strip'u-los), a. In entom., covered 
with coarse, decumbent hairs, as the elytra of 
. certain beetles. 
stripy (stii'pi), n. Stripe-like; occurring in 
stripes ; marked by streaks or stripes. 
Strisores (stri-so'rez), n. pi. [NL.; origin ob- 
scure.] An artificial order or suborder of birds, 
including a number of picarian families. It was 
divided by Cabanis into ifacrochirei (the humming-birds, 
swifts, and goatsuckers) and Amphibolse (the colies, toura- 
cous, and hoactzins). [Not in use.) 
Stritchel (strich'el), . An assibilatedform of 
strickle. 
strive (striv), v. i. ; pret. strove, pp. striven (for- 
merly also striven, Rom. xv. 20), ppr. striv- 
ing. [< ME. striven, stryven, strifen (orig. a 
5996 
weak verb, pret. strived, afterward conformed 
to the analogy of strong verbs like drive, pret. 
drove, with pret.sfro/, xtrote, pp. striven), <OF. 
estriver = Pr. estribar, strive, prob. < OHG. 
*striban, in deriv. weak verb, MHG. G. streben 
= D. streven = MLG. strevcn, LG. strcwen = Svv. 
striifcu = Dan. streebe, strive; cf. Icel. striillm 
= Svv. strida, strive : see stride, and cf. strife.] 
1. To make strenuous effort ; endeavor earnest- 
ly ; labor hard ; do one's endeavor; try earnest- 
ly and persistently: followed by an infinitive: 
as, ho strove hard to win the prize; to strive to 
excel; to strive to pay one's way. 
Strive to enter in at the strait gate. Luke xiii. 24. 
I'll strive ... to take a nap. 
Shak., Kich. III., v. 3. 104. 
When there is perfect sincerity when each man is true 
to himself when everyone strives to realize what he thinks 
the highest rectitude then must all things prosper. 
H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 518. 
2. To contend; struggle; battle; fight: fol- 
lowed by with, against, or for: as, to strive 
against fate; to strive for the truth. 
First with thl betttr be waar for to stryue, 
Agens thi felaw uoo quarel thou contryue. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.\ p. 68. 
While lesvs strove with Sathans strong Temptations. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. 
Against the Deity 'tis hard to strire. 
Prior, Second Hymn of t'allimachus. 
Striving with love and hate, with life and death, 
H'itli hope that lies, and fear that threateneth. 
H' ill fit HI Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 151. 
3. To vie; contend for preeminence: with iritli. 
With the rose colour stroof hire hewe. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 180. 
Nor that sweet grove 
Of Daphne by Orontes, and the inspired 
Castalian spring,' might n-Hli this Paradise 
Of Eden strive. Milton, P. L, IT. 275. 
4. To quarrel or contend with one another; be 
at variance one with another, or come to be 
so; be in contention, dispute, or altercation. 
Do as adversaries do in law, 
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. 
Shak.,1. of the 8., 1. 2. 279. 
5. To oppose by contrariety of qualities: with 
with. 
Now private pity strove with publick hate, 
Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. 
Sir J. Denham, On the Earl of Stratford's Trial 
[and Death. 
= 8yn. 1. Undertake,Endeamr,etc.(B.ee attempt); seek, aim, 
toil. 2. To compete, contest 4. To dispute, wrangle. 
strive (striv), n. [< strive, v.] A striving; 
an effort; a strife. [Old Eng. and Scotch.] 
striver (stri'ver), n. [< strive + -eri.] One 
who strives or contends ; one who makes ef- 
forts of body or mind. Glanville. 
striving (stri'ving), n. [Verbal n. of strive, v.'] 
Strenuous or earnest effort; struggle; endea- 
vor. 
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than 
never to hare a striving good enough to be called a fail- 
ure. George Eliot, Middlemarch, ixiL 
(stri' ving-li), adv. In a striving man- 
ner ; with earnest or persistent efforts or strug- 
gles. Imp. Diet. 
Strix (striks), n. [NL., < L. strix (strig-), < Gr. 
orp/f (arpty-), a screech-owl, perhaps < "arpit^etv, 
equiv. to rpl&iv, creak, grate, croak.] A Lin- 
nean genus of owls, (at) Containing all the Strige. 
(b) Restricted to the barn-owls : same as Aluco. See cut 
Barred Owl (Strix nebttlosa). 
strobile 
under barn-owl, (c) Restricted to the wood-owls, like 
Strix stridula, having the facial disk complete, circular, 
and no plumicorns. In this sense it is now omnium!) 
employed. The common barred owl of the t"nit< -il 
is btrix nebulosa. .see cut in preceding column. 
stroakt, stroakingt. Obsolete spellings of 
stroke^, stroking. 
Stroamt (strom), v, i. [Prob. a var. of stn/nii 
(as soi2 for seam"), perhaps associated with 
roam: see stream,] If. To wander about idly 
and vacantly. 2. To walk with long strides. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
He, ejaculating blessings upon his parents, and calling 
fur just vengeance upon himself, stroamed up and down 
the room. Mme. D'Arblay, Camilla, iii. 10. (Davits.) 
strob (strob), . [< Gr. arp6()o(, a twisting or 
whirling round, < ar/tfQetv, turn, twist. Cf. strob- 
ile, stroplie.~\ The angular velocity of one ra- 
dian per second. 
Strobic (strob'ik), a. [< strob + -ic.] Appear- 
ing to spin. gtroblc circles, a number of circles 
drawn concentrically which appear to spin round when 
they are moved about. 
strobila (stro-bi'la), . ; pi. strobila (-le). [NL., 
< Gr. arpopiJai, a plug of lint like a pine-cone, cf . 
arpi/ii^oi;, anything twisted, a pine-cone, etc. : 
see strobile.] In zool. : ((t) In Bydrozoa, a stage 
in the development of a discophoran, super- 
vening upon the scyphisto- 
ma or hydra-tuba stage by 
the development of ephyrse, 
and before these become 
detached from one another 
and from the stalk upon 
which they grow. See 
rphyra, 1, and scyphistoma. 
(b) In Vermes, a segment- 
ed tapeworm ; the chain of 
zooids formed by a scolex 
and the proglottides which 
have successively budded 
from it. (cf) [cap.] [NL.] 
A supposed genus of aca- 
lephs, based on the strp- 
biliform stage of certain 
hydrozoans. fiars, 1835. 
(d) leap.] [NL.] lucntom., 
a genus of lepidopterous 
insects. Sodoffsl'y, 1837. 
strobilaceous (strob-i-la'- 
Shius), O. [< Strobile + 
/T -, - V> -i-T 
-aceous.] 1. Resembling a 
strobile; strobiliform. 2. Bearing strobiles; 
strobiliferous. 
strobilae, n. Plural of strobila. 
Strobilanthes (strob -i -Ian 'thez), n. [NL. 
(Blume,1825), so called from the inflorescence, 
usually cone-like when in bud; < Gr. arp6f)i/.of, 
a pine-cone, + av6of, a flower.] A genus of 
gamopetalous plants, of the order Acanlhacae 
and tribe Kuellieie. It is characterized by flowers with 
acute linear calyx-lobes, a somewhat equally nve-lobed 
corolla with a short or long and slender tube, stamens 
four and perfect or two perfect and two rudimentary, and 
two or perhaps rarely three ovules in each of the two 
ovary-cells. There are about 180 species, natives mostly 
of India, scantily represented in China, Japan, and Ma- 
laysia, with one species in tropical Africa. They are herbs 
or shrubs, commonly erect, bearing opposite entire or 
toothed leaves, which are in a few species very unequal in 
the same pair. Their usually rather large and handsome 
flowers are often blue or purple, and form dense or inter- 
rupted spikes which are terminal or crowded in the axils, 
and are sometimes replaced by a panicle or cyme. The 
fruit Is an oblong or linear capsule slightly contracted at 
the base. Several species are cultivated for ornament, 
sometimes under the name cone-head. S. jfttfcidtfolius 
yields the room, or maigyee dye, of India, etc. See room?, 
and cut under stama, 2. 
strobilate (strob'i-lat), v. .; pret. and pp. strob- 
ilated, ppr. strobilating. [< strobile + -ate 2 .] 
To form or develop strobiles ; be or become a 
strobile; effect strobilation. 
strobilation (strob-i-la'shon), n. [< strobilate 
+ -ion.] 1. Formation or production of strob- 
iles; metameric division of a scyphistoma or 
hydra tuba into medusae. 2. Gemmation of 
the successive links or joints of a tapeworm; 
also, the transverse fission of various worms. 
strobile (strob'il), n. [= F. strobile = G. stro- 
bel, a pine-cone, < LL. strobihts, a pine-cone, < 
Gr. arp6{li/.o(, anything twisted, a pine-cone, a 
top, sea-snail, whirlpool, twist or turn, etc., < 
arpc6civ, turn, twist, spin.] 1. In tot., a cone 
(which see, and cuts under Lepidostrobus and 
pericarp). Also strobil ... 
With reference to fructification, the form of Lycopodi- 
tea Miller! renders it certain that it must have borne strob- 
iles at the ends of its branchlets, or some substitute for 
these, and not naked spore-cases like those of Fsilophyton. 
Dawson, Geol. Hist, of Plants, p. 101. 
2. In zool., a strobila. tyiiain, Med. Diet., p. 1587. 
Two Strobiles or Strobile, 
:, t>, of Cyanea fapillata. 
At a tentacles 
>*"Te upon the stal 
e slrobila. 
