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Wand’rest thou within this lucid orb, 
And stray'd from those fair fields of light above, 
Amidst this new creation want’st a guide 
To reconduct thy steps ? Dryden. 
To err; to deviate from the right.—We have erred and 
strayed. Common Prayer. 
To STRAY, v. a. To mislead. Obsolete. 
Hath not else his eye 
Stray'd his affection in unlawful love ? Shakspeare. 
STRAY, s. Any creature wandering beyond its limits; 
any thing lost by wandering. 
She hath herself not only well defended. 
But taken and impounded as a stray 
The king of Scots. ‘ Shakspeare. 
STRAY, a small river of Franconia, which rises in the 
Henneberg, and flows into the Saale. 
STRA'YER, s. One who strays; a wanderer. Iluloet. 
—Hubberdin, an old divine of Oxford; a great straier 
abroad in all quarters of the realm. Fox. 
STRA'YING, s. The act of roving; the act of going 
astray.—Do you see thousand little motes and atoms wan¬ 
dering up and down in a sun*beam? It is God that so 
peoples it; and he guides their innumerable and irregular 
strayings. Bp. Hopkins. 
STRAZNITZ, a town of the Austrian states, in Moravia, 
which has a castle, a monastery, a deanery, a Piarist college, 
and 4100 inhabitants, of whom a small part are Jews; 14 
miles south of Hradisch, and 36 south-east of Brunn. 
STREAK,*, [jrpice, Saxon; streke, Dutch; stricca, 
Ital.] A line of colour different from that of the ground. 
Sometimes written stroke. 
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day; 
Now spurs the lated traveller apace, 
To gain the timely inn. Shakspeare. 
To STREAK, v. a. To stripe; to variegate in hues; to 
dapple. 
All the yeanlings which were streak'd and pied, 
Should fall as Jacob’s hire. Shakspeare. 
To stretch. Obsolete. 
She lurks in midst of all her den, and streaks 
From out a ghastly whirlpool all her necks; 
Where, glotting round her rock, to fish she falls. Chapman. 
STRE'AKY, adj. Striped; variegated by hues. 
When the hoary head is hid in snow, 
The life is in the leaf, and still between 
The fits of falling snows appears the streaky green. Dryden. 
STREAM, s. (jepeam, Saxon; straum, Icelandic; 
stroom, Dutch.] A running water; the course of running 
water; current. 
As plays the sun upon the glassy stream. 
Twinkling another counterfeited beam. Shakspeare. 
Any thing issuing from a head, and moving forward with 
continuity of parts.—The stream of beneficence hath, by 
several rivulets which have since fallen into it, wonderfully 
enlarged its current. Atterbury .—Any thing forcible and 
continued.—It is looked upon as insolence for a man to ad¬ 
here to his own opinion against the current stream of an¬ 
tiquity. Locke. —The very stream of his life, and the busi¬ 
ness he hath helmed, must give him a better proclamation. 
Shakspeare. 
To STREAM, v. n. [streyma, Icelandic.] To flow; to 
run in a continuous current. 
God bade the ground be dry. 
All but between those banks where rivers now. 
Stream, and perpetual draw their humid train. Milton. 
To emit a current; to pour out water in a stream; to be 
overflown. 
Then grateful Greece with streaming eyes would raise 
Historic marbles to record his praise. Pope. 
Vox.. XXIII. No. 1596. 
To issue forth with continuance, not by fits. 
Now to impartial love, that god most high, 
Do my sighs stream. Shakspeare. 
To STREAM, v. a. To pour; to send forth. 
She at length will stream 
Some dew of grace into my wither’d heart, 
After long sorrow and consuming smart. Spenser. 
To mark with colours or embroidery in long tracks.—The 
herald’s mantle is streamed with gold. Bacon. 
STREAM, a hamlet of England, in the parish of St. 
Decuman’s, Somersetshire. 
STREAMER, s. An ensign; a flag; a pennon; any 
thing flowing loosely from a stock. 
His brave fleet. 
With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning. 
Shakspeare. 
STREAMLET, s. A small stream. 
Unnumber’d glittering streamlets play’d. 
And hurled every where their waters sheen. Thomson. 
STREAMY, adj. Abounding in running water. 
Arcadia, 
However streamy now, adust and dry, 
Deny’d the goddess water: where deep Melas, 
And rocky Cratis flow, the chariot smoak’d 
Obscure with rising dust. Prior. 
Flowing with a current. 
Before him flaming his enormous shield. 
Like the broad sun, illumin’d all the field; 
His nodding helm emits a streamy ray. Pope. 
STREATHAM, a village and parish of England, in the 
county of Surrey, and in the vicinity of London. It con¬ 
tains a newly built church, and a charity school; and in the 
neighbourhood there are numerous handsome villas and 
country seats. On the side of the small common between 
Streatham and Tooting is the Streatham Park, which be¬ 
longed to the late Mr. Thrale, the friend of Dr. Johnson, 
and afterwards to his relict, Mrs. Piozzi. Dr. Johnson spent 
much of his time here. In the church, upon tablets of white 
marble, are Latin inscriptions from the pen of Johnson, to 
the memory of Mr. Thrale and Mrs. Salisbury, mother of 
Mrs. Piozzi. On Lime Common in this parish, was dis¬ 
covered in 1660, a mineral water of a mild cathartic quality, 
which is still held in considerable esteem, but there are tio 
accommodations for persons coming to the spot, though the 
place is much resorted to; 7 miles south-by-west of St. 
Paul’s, London. 
STREATHAM, a parish of England, in the Isle of Ely, 
Cambridgeshire ; miles south of Ely. 
STREATLAM, a township of England, in Durham; 2| 
miles north-east-by-east of Barnard Castle. 
STREATLEY, a parish of England, in Bedfordshire; 5 
miles north-north-west of Luton. 
STREATLEY, a parish of England, in Berkshire; Si¬ 
miles south-by-west of Wallingford. Population 596. 
STREEFKERK, a village in the interior of Holland, 
near Gorcum, with 900 inhabitants. 
To STREEK, v. a. [ptpeccan, Saxon, expandere, to 
stretch.'] To lay out a dead body. North. Rap. _ 
Durand gives a pretty exact account of some of the ceremo¬ 
nies used at laying out the body, as they are at present 
practised in the north of England, where the laying out is 
called streeking. Brand. 
STREET, s. [ptpaete, Saxon; strasse, German; strada, 
Spanish and Italian; streede, Danish; straet, Dutch; stra¬ 
tum, Latin. Dr. Johnson .—To these words Wachter and 
Serenius add the Welsh ystrid, Icel. straet a, Su. Goth. 
straet; and consider them derived from the verbs signifying 
to tread, as tretten, German; traeda, Su. Goth., having the 
* (which is common) prefixed.] A way, properly a paved 
way, between two rows of houses.—He led us through fair 
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