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streets; and all the way we went there were gathered people 
on both sides, standing in a row. Bacon. 
When night 
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons 
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine; 
Witness the streets of Sodom. Milton. 
Proverbially, a public place.—Our public ways would be 
so crowded, that we should want street- room. Addison. 
STREET, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 2 miles 
south-south-west of Glastonbury. Population 634. 
STREET, a parish of England, in Sussex; 5 miles north¬ 
west of Lewes. 
STREETHALL, a hamlet of England, in Essex; 4 miles 
west-north-west of Saffron Walden. 
STREET-HAY, a township of England, in Staffordshire; 
2 miles east of Lichfield. 
STREET-HAYNE, a hamlet of England, in the parish 
of Colyton, Devonshire. 
STRE'ET WALKER, s. A common prostitute that offers 
herself to sale in the open street. 
STRE'ETWARD, or Stre'tvvard, s . An officer who 
formerly took care of the streets. See Cower. 
STREHLA, a small town of the interior of Germany, in 
Saxony, on the Elbe. It has 1400 inhabitants, with manu¬ 
factures of pottery ware, and a corn trade carried on by the 
Elbe; 29 miles north-west of Dresden. 
STREHLEN, a small town of Prussian Silesia, on the 
Ohle. It contains 3000 inhabitants, who manufacture wool¬ 
lens, stockings, and leather. It has also large wool markets; 
] 7 miles west of Brieg, and 22 south of Breslau. 
STREIGHT, adj. Narrow. See Straight and Strait: 
[strictus, Lat.] Restrained. 
Whereas he meant his corrosives t’ apply, 
And with streight diet tame his stubborn malady. Spenser. 
STREIGHT, adv. Strictly. 
My lord me sent, and straight behight 
To seek occasion. Spenser. 
STREIN, or Strinius, an Austrian baron with the title 
Von Schwartzenau, was bom about the year 1538. The first 
object of his attention was jurisprudence; but afterwards, 
under the care of Francis Hotman, he prosecuted the study 
of Roman antiquities with such assiduity and success, that in 
the twentieth, year of his age he composed a work “ De 
Gentibus et Familiis Romanorum,” which was published at 
Paris in 1599, fol. by Henry Stephens; and “ Stemmata 
Gentium et Rcmanarem Familiarum,” inserted in the 7th 
volume of “ Graevii Thesaurus Rom. Ant.” He also wrote 
“ Commentavius de Rob. Bellarmini Scriptis atque Libris,” 
and published, without his name, “ A Defence of the Free¬ 
dom of the States of Holland.” He died at Vienna, accord¬ 
ing to De Thou, in 1601, but, as Baillet says, in 1600. He 
was a decided and steady friend to the Protestant com¬ 
munion. 
STREITBERG, a petty town in the interior of Germany, 
in Bavarian Franconia, on the river Wiesent; 16 miles west- 
south-west of Bayreuth. 
STRELITZ, a village of Scotland, in Perthshire, so named 
in honour of her Majesty, Queen Charlotte. It was built 
in 1763, as a place of residence for the discharged soldiers, 
at the conclusion of the German war. It consists of upwards 
of 80 dwelling-houses, built in a neat manner, forming a 
street 90 feet broad, watered by a small stream which runs 
through it. To every house is annexed a good garden, with 
about three acres of land, properly inclosed; and the whole 
village is finely sheltered by belts and stripes of planting; 
8 miles north of Perth. 
STRELITZ, a city in the north of Germany, the capital 
of the grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelilz, is situated in 
the lordship of Stargard, in the midst of lakes and marshes. 
It is divided into Old and New Strelitz, which form properly 
two towns, being a mile distant from each other. Old Stre¬ 
litz was formerly the ducal residence, but the palace having 
been burned in 1713, the duke built a new one at a little 
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distance, at a place called Glienke, and in 1733 founded a 
town, called New Strelitz. The two came in time to be 
considered as one town, but each has its separate magistrates. 
Old Strelitz contains 3000 inhabitants. New Strelitz, a bet¬ 
ter built place, has 4000. The manufactures of the two 
consist of woollen, linen, and, in a small degree, of tobacco. 
Here are also the public offices of the duchy; 57 miles 
north-by-west of Berlin. Lat. 53. 25. N. long. 13. 8. E. 
STRELITZ, a small town of Prussian Silesia; 35 miles 
east of Breslau, and 7 east of Namslau. Population 900. 
STRELITZ, Great, another small town of Prussian 
Silesia, in the government of Oppeln. Population 1000. 
STRELITZIA [so named by Sir Joseph Banks and Mr. 
Aiton, as a tribute of respect to the botanical zeal and 
knowledge of the queen of Great Britain, a princess of 
the house of Mecklenburg-Strelitz], in Botany, a genus of 
the class pentandria, order monogynia, natural order musse, 
(Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx: common sheath in¬ 
ferior, of one leaf, channelled, pointed, widely spreading, 
many-flowered; partial ones lanceolate, shorter than the 
flowers. Perianth none. Corolla: superior, irregular, of 
three-lanceolate, acute petals; the lowermost boaf-shaped; 
two upper ones bluntly keeled. Nectary of three leaves ’ 
the two longest equal, rather shorter than the petals, broad at 
the base, then tapering, with a folded wavy border, embracing 
the stamens and style, half arrow-shaped towards the toj?, 
with a thick dorsal appendage ; the third leaf much shorter' 
ovate, compressed, keeled. Stamina: filaments five, in¬ 
serted into the receptacle, thread-shaped, three of them em¬ 
braced by one leaf of the nectary, two by the others; anthers 
terminal, linear, erect, parallel, about as long as their fila¬ 
ments, concealed in the nectary. Pistil: germen below the 
corolla, oblong, bluntly triangular; style thread-shaped, the 
length of the stamens; stigmas three, awl-shaped, rising 
above the nectary, erect, glued together in an early state! 
Pericarp: capsule woody, oblong, slightly triangular, ob¬ 
tuse, of three cells and three valves, the partitions from the 
centre of each valve. Seeds: numerous, nearly globose, 
hairy, ranged in two rows along each partition. —Essential 
Character. Sheaths general and partial. Perianth none. 
Petals three. Nectary of three leaves, enfolding the stamens 
and pistil. Capsule inferior, of three cells, with many 
seeds. 
1. Strelitzia angusta, or great white Strelifzia.—The root 
is perennial, with long and thick fibres. Leaves radical, 
about six feet long, resembling those of a Musa. FJowers 
white, bearing but a small proportion to the magnificent 
foliage.—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
2. Strelitzia reginae, or canna-leaved Strelitzia.—Leaves 
ovate, not one-third the length of their foot-stalks, which are 
nearly as long as the flower-stalk. 
3. Strelitzia farinosa, or meally-stalked Strelitzia.—Stalk 
rather longer than the footstalks, which are half as long 
again as the oblong leaves, unequal at the base.—Native of 
the Cape. 
STRELLEY, a parish of England, in Nottinghamshire; 
4j miles west-north-west of Nottingham. 
STRELNA, a river in the north of European Russia, in 
the government of St. Petersburg, which falls into the gulf 
of Bothnia. On an eminence near its mouth stands a palace 
belonging to the emperor. 
STREN/E, in Antiquity, new year's gifts ; presents made 
out of respect on new-year’s day, as an happy augury for the 
ensuing year. 
STRENGBACH, a small river of France, in Upper 
Alsace, which falls into the Ille at Gemar. 
STRENGBERG, a small town of Lower Austria, on 
the road from Ensto Anstatten; 10 miles east-south-east of 
Ens. 
STRENGNAS, a town of Sweden, in Sudermania, on the 
Malar lake. Though containing only 1100 inhabitants, it is 
of great antiquity, is a bishop’s see, and has a large cathedral. 
Here is also a public school, founded in 1626; 32 miles west 
of Stockholm. Lat. 59. 20. N. long. 16. 55. E. 
STRENGTH, 
