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to hinder or incommode the army in its march. For which 
purpose, he ordered banks and steep eminences to be levelled; 
laid bridges, cut down woods, and assisted the quarter¬ 
master to find out places proper for transporting the armv 
over rivers. 
Strator is also used for an equerry, who held the bridle 
of the prince’s horse, and assisted him in mounting. This 
officer was by the Greeks called anaboleus. 
Strator likewise denotes a surveyor of the highways. 
STRATTON, a market town and parish of England, in 
the county of Cornwall. It is situated in a low cold coun¬ 
try, which stands much in need of draining. Here is a meet¬ 
ing-house for Wesleyan Methodists. The parish contains 
2300 acres, and is famed for the well-known battle of Strat¬ 
ton, which was fought near the town, between the parlia¬ 
mentary army, under the Earl of Stamford, and the royal 
army under George Lord Lansdown, who was supported by 
Sir Beville Grenville and the Cornish army. The battle 
took place on the 6th of May 1643, on a hill called Stam¬ 
ford’s Hill, from its having been the position of the parlia¬ 
mentary general, whose troops were defeated there with great 
slaughter. One of the Blanchminster family gave lands of 
considerable value, part of which are in the parish of Pound- 
stock, to the church and poor of the parish. Market on 
Tuesday. In 1811, the parish contained 216 houses, and 
1094 inhabitants; 46 miles west of Exeter, and 223 west- 
south-west of London. 
STRATTON, a hamlet of England, in Bedfordshire; 1 
mile east-south-east of Biggleswade. 
STRATTON, a parish of England, in Dorsetshire, on 
the Roman road north of the river Frome; 3 miles north¬ 
west of Dorchester. 
STRATTON, a parish of England, in Gloucestershire ; 
2 miles north-west of Cirencester. 
STRATTON, a parish of England, in Wiltshire; 4 miles 
south-west-by-south of Highworth. Population 517. 
STRATTON AUDLEY, a parish of England, in Oxford¬ 
shire; 3 miles north-east-by-north of Bicester. 
STRATTON, East, a parish of England, in South- 
amptonshire; 5j miles north-north-west of New Arlesford. 
STRATTON-ON-FOSS, a parish of England, in Somer¬ 
setshire; 5i miles north-north-east of Shepton Mallet. 
STRATTON, St. Mary's, a parish of England, in Nor¬ 
folk ; 104 miles south-by-west of Norwich. Population 558. 
STRATTON, St. Michael’s and St. Peter’s, two 
united parishes in Norfolk, half a mile east of the foregoing. 
STRATTON, Strawless, another parish in Norfolk; 
4 miles south of Aylesham. 
STRATTON, a township of the United Slates, in Wind¬ 
ham county, Vermont. Population 265. 
STRA'TUM, s. [Lat.] A bed; a layer. A term of 
philosophy. 
Drill’d through the sandy stratum, ev’ry way 
The waters with the sandy stratum rise. Thomson. 
STRAUBENZILL, a large village in the north-east of 
Switzerland, in the canton of St. Gall, near the Sitler. It 
has manufactures of linen and woollen. 
STRAUBING, a considerable town of Bavaria, situated 
on the right bank of the Danube. It stands partly on a 
height, is divided into Upper and Lower, and is tolerably 
well built. It is surrounded with a wall, and the bridge over 
the river is defended, since 1809, by a tcte de pont. It is 
the seat of a high court of justice, has several churches and 
charitable institutions, a flourishing academy, and, in a con¬ 
vent of Ursuline nuns, an establishment for female education. 
Straubing has 6200 inhabitants, with well frequented markets 
of corn and cattle, and a trade on the Danube, but no manu¬ 
factures. The environs are very fertile, but the town has suf¬ 
fered much at different times from fire; 66 miles north-north¬ 
east of Munich, and 23 east-south-east of Ratisbon. Lat. 48. 
52.39. N. long. 11. 34. 48. E. 
STRAUGHT, pret. and part. Stretched. Obsolete in 
England; but used (as straucht ,) in Scotland.—Striking 
me down on the place, where yet I lie straught. Shelton. 
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STRAVICHO, a small town in the north-east of Euro-* 
pean Turkey, on the Black Sea, between two mouths of the 
Danube; 63 miles south-east of Ismail. 
STRAUMNESS, a cape on the west coast of Iceland. 
Lat. 65. 39. 40. N. long. 24. 30. W. 
STRAUPITZ, a large village of Prussian Silesia, near 
Hirschberg, with 1100 inhabitants. 
STRAUSSBERG, a small town of the Prussian province 
of Brandenburg, government of Potsdam; 20 miles east of 
Berlin. Population 2700. Here is a large hospital. 
STRAW, 5. [ptpeop, Sax.; stroo, Dutch. Dr. Johnson. 
— The Saxon forms of this word are also ptpap, pcpeo, 
ptpea, ptpe; the last of which is our old English. “ Of 
stre many a load," Chaucer, Kn. Tale. Our northern 
word is still streea.] The stalk on which the corn grows, 
and from which it is threshed. 
I can countefeit the deep tragedian. 
Trembling and start at wagging of a straw, 
Intending deep suspicion. Shakspeare. 
To STRAW. See To Strew. 
STRAWBERRY, s. [ fragaria, Lat. pepap-bepie, 
Sax. Mr. H. Tooke considers strawberry as straw'd- berry, 
stray- berry, from straw, or strew. “ He would have been 
pleased,” says Todd, “to find, in a curious old book, his 
statement partly illustrated; the strawberry being there called 
‘ from the manner in which it is set in beds, not cast in 
heaps, but, as it were strawed here and there at manifest 
distances.’ Dyet's Dry Dinner, 1599.”] A plant. Miller. 
See Fragaria. 
Content with food, which nature freely bred, 
On wildings and on strawberries they fed. Dryden. 
STRAWBERRY PLAINS, a post village of the United 
States, in-Knox county, Tennessee. 
STRAWBERRY RIVER, a river of the United States, 
in the North-west Territory, which runs into Lake Superior, 
west of Goddard’s River. Lat. 46. 40. N. long. 91. 44. W. 
STRA'WBERRY TREE, s. [arbutus, Lat.] It is ever 
green, the leaves roundish and serrated on the edges: the 
fruit is of a fleshy substance, and very like a strawberry. 
Miller. 
STRAWBUILT, adj'. Made up of straw. 
They on the smoothed plank. 
The suburb of their strawbuilt citadel. 
New rubb’d with balm, expatiate. Milton. 
STRAWCOLOURED, adj. Of a light yellow.—I will 
discharge it in your strawcolour'd beard. Shakspeare.. 
STRAWSTUFFED, adj. Stuffed with straw. 
So rides he mounted on the market-day. 
Upon a straw-stuff'd pannel all the way. Bp. Hall. 
STRAW WORM, s. [ phryganion , Lat.] A worm 
bred in straw. 
STRA'WY, adj. Made of straw ; consisting of straw. 
There the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge, 
Fall down before him, like the mower’s swath. Shakspeare. 
Like straw ; light.—Luther hath these words: the epistle 
— is contentious, swelling, dry, strawy. Knott. 
To STRAY, v.n. [stroe, Danish, to scatter-, strav- 
viare, Ital., to wander. Dr. Johnson. —To stray, is the 
Sax. pcpse^an, to scatter. The Goth, strawan. Sax. 
ptpeapian, jxpepian, jxpegian, ptpaegan, proceed from 
straw, or, as our peasantry still pronounce it, strah; and 
astray, or astrayed, means strawed, scattered and dis¬ 
persed, as the straw is about the fields. Mr. H. Tooke, 
Dio. of Purl. i. 469.] To wander; to rove. 
Lo, the glad gales o’er all her beauties stray. 
Breathe on her lips, and in her bosom play. Pope. 
To rove out of the way; to range beyond the proper 
limits. 
She doth stray about 
By holy crosses, where she kneeling prays 
For happy wedlock hours. Shakspeare. 
Wand’rest 
