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He will vouchsafe 
This day to be our guest: bring forth and pour 
Abundance, fit to honour and receive 
Our heavenly stranger. Milton. 
One unacquainted. 
My child is yet a stranger in the world : 
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years. 
Shakspeare. 
One not admitted to any communication or fellowship. 
I unspeak my detraction ; here abjure 
The taints and blames upon myself, 
For strangers to my nature. Shakspeare. 
To STRA'NGER v. a. To estrange; to alienate. 
Will you with those infirmities she owes, 
Dower’d with our curse, and stranger'd with our oath. 
Take her or leave her ? Shakspeare. 
STRANGER’S KEY, a small island among the Bahamas. 
Lat. 26. 43. N. long. 78. 40. W. 
STRANGFORD, an ancient town of Ireland, now de¬ 
cayed, in the county of Down, situated on a rapid inlet 
leading to Lough Strangford. Here a charter school was 
established in 1748, by the earl of Kildare, and liberally en¬ 
dowed; 6 miles east of Downpatrick, and 80J north-north¬ 
east of Dublin. Lat. 54. 21. N. long. 5. 28. W. 
STRANGFORD, Lough, a large bay of Ireland, in the 
county of Down, extending from Killard Point in the Irish 
sea, to Newtown; about 17 miles from south to north; in 
some places five miles broad, in others three, and at its 
opening into the sea not one. It contains a great many 
small islands, and numerous creeks convenient for fishing 
harbours. It takes its name from the town of Strangford. 
To STRA'NGLE, v. a. [strangulo , Lat.] To choak; 
to suffocate; to kill by intercepting the breath. 
His face is black and full of blood ; 
His eye-balls farther out, than when he liv’d ; 
Staring full ghastly, like a strangled man. Shakspeare. 
To suppress; to hinder from birth or appearance. 
By th’ clock, ’tis day ; 
And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp : 
Is’t night’s predominance, or the day’s shame ? Shakspeare # 
STRA'NGLER s. One who strangles.—The band that 
seems to tie their friendship together, will be the very 
strangler of their amity. Shakspeare. 
STRA'NGLES, s. Swellings in a horse’s throat. 
STRA'NGLING, s. Death by stopping the breath..— 
My soul chooseth strangling and death rather than life. 
Job. 
STRANGULATION, s. [strangulation, Fr. Cotgrave.] 
The act of strangling; suffocation ; the state of being- 
strangled.—The reduction of the jaws is difficult, and, if 
they be not timely reduced, there happen paralysis and 
strangulation. Wiseman. 
STRA'NGURY, s. [a-rpalyovpiei, Gr.; strangurie, Fr.] 
A difficulty of urine attended with pain.—The liquor of the 
birch is most powerful for the dissolving of the stone in the 
bladder, bloody water, and strangury. Evelyn. —See 
Surgery. 
STRANING, a small town of Lower Austria, in the 
quarter below the Mannhartsberg, with 1600 inhabitants. 
STRANORLANE, a neat little village of Ireland, in the 
county of Donegal, pleasantly situated on the river Fin; 
112 miles north-west of Dublin. 
STRANRAER, or Stranrawer, a royal burgh of Scot¬ 
land, in Wigtonshire, seated at the head of the bay of Loch 
Ryan. It is the seat of a presbytery, and the chief town of 
the district called the Rinns. The principal street is of great 
length in proportion to the extent of the town. The greater 
part of the houses are old, and no regular plan has been ob¬ 
served. But whole streets of elegant houses have been lately 
built; and a handsome town-house and prison erected about 
45 years ago, adds greatly to the appearance of the town. 
It is a port of the custom-house. It has some trade to the 
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Baltic, to Ireland, and to England, chiefly in the exporta¬ 
tion of grain. The cotton and linen manufactures are carried 
on to a considerable extent. There is also a considerable 
tan-work. The harbour of Stranraer is excellent, being 
sheltered on all sides, and lying at the head of Loch Ryan, 
which affords excellent anchorage. The tonnage of vessels 
belonging to it is 1200 tons. Stranraer is governed by a 
provost, two baillies, a dean of guild, and 15 councillors, and 
unites with Wigton, New Galloway, and Whithorn, in elect¬ 
ing a member to parliament. Near the town is the old 
castle of Stranraer, formerly a seat of the earls of Stair; and 
not far from it is the castle of Culhorn, the beautiful resi¬ 
dence of that noble family. The burgh is chiefly the pro¬ 
perty of that nobleman, or dependent upon him. The great 
road from Carlisle, &c. to Port Patrick passes through the 
town. The parish is not large, and extends but to a small 
distance round the burgh; 50 miles south of Ayr, 68f west 
of Dumfries, and 61 east of Port Patrick. 
STRANSDORF, a small town of Lower Austria, on the 
river Bulka; 32 miles north of Vienna. Population 900. 
STRANTON, a parish of England, in Durham; 10§ 
miles north-east-by-north of Stockton-upon-Tees. 
STRAP, s. Qtpopp, Sax. strop, Teut. stroppa, Ital.] 
A narrow long slip of cloth or leather.—These clothes are 
good enough to drink in, and so be these boots too; an 
they be not, let them hang themselves in their own straps, 
Shakspeare. 
To STRAP, v. a. To beat with a strap. 
STRAPPA'DO, s. [old Fr. strapade, “ sorte de puni- 
tion militaire.” Roq. Supposed to be from the Ital. strap - 
pare, to pull with force.] A kind of military torture 
formerly practised in drawing up an offender to the top of 
a beam, and letting him fall; in consequence of which, 
dislocation of a limb usually happened.—Were I at the 
strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell 
you on compulsion. Shakspeare. 
To STRAPPA'DO, v. a. To torture.—They had neither 
been haled into your gehenna at Lambeth, nor strappadoect 
with an oath ex officio by your bowmen of the arches. 
Milton. 
STRA'PPING, adj. Vast; large; bulky. Used of large 
men or women in contempt. 
STRASBURG, a large city of France, in Alsace, situated 
at the influx of the Brushe into the Ille, and only half a mile 
from the Rhine. Its form approaches to the semicircular; 
and being built in a plain, it is divided into several parts by 
canals, over which there is a number of bridges. Its extent 
is considerable, its population about 50,000. The construc¬ 
tion of the houses is alter the German manner, Alsace having 
belonged to France only since the latter half of the 17th cen¬ 
tury, and the language and customs of the majority of the 
inhabitants being still German. The material chiefly em¬ 
ployed for building is a red sort of stone found in the quarries 
along the Rhine. The houses are lofty, but often heavy 
and inelegant. Of the streets, the one called La Grande rue , 
and a few others, are wide and straight, but the far greater 
part are narrow. The place d'armes is a square, surrounded 
with good buildings, and planted with trees. It is frequented 
as a public walk; but the more extensive promenades are the 
Contadin, adjacent to the city wall; and at some distance, 
the Ruptborshant, a fine meadow, divided into a number of 
alleys bordered with trees. The fortifications are extensive: 
they are divided into old and new, the former only repaired 
by Vauban, the later entirely constructed under the direction 
of that celebrated engineer. The citadel lies towards the 
east. It is a regular pentagon, composed of five bastions, 
and as many half-moons, and with outworks extending al¬ 
most to the Rhine. 
Public Buildings .—Of these the principal is the cathedral 
or minster, justly classed among the most distinguished 
specimens of Gothic architecture that exist. Its tower, of 
470 feet in height, and ascended by astair of above 700steps, 
is said to be the loftiest building in the world, with the ex¬ 
ception of the highest of the pyramids of Egypt. It is a 
master-piece of architecture, being built of hewn stone, cut 
with 
