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gain'd out of the remaining part of the same liquor by a 
more hasty evaporation. Boyle. 
STRIATE, or Striated, adj. [stria, Lat., strie, Fr.] 
Formed in striae.—Crystal, when incorporated with the 
fibrous talcs, shews, if broke, a striated or fibrous texture, 
like those talcs. Wood-ward. 
STRl'ATURE, s. [stria, Lat., strieure, Fr.] Disposition 
of striae.—Parts of tuberous haematitae shew several varieties 
in the crusts, striature, and texture of the body. Woodward. 
STRICH, 5. [<rrpcyf, Gr., strix, Lat.] A bird of bad omen. 
The ill-fac’d owl, death’s dreadful messenger. 
The hoarse night-raven, trump of doleful drere, 
The leather-winged bat, day’s enemy. 
The rueful stricli, still waiting on the bier. Spenser. 
STRICHEN, a parish of Scotland, in Aberdeenshire, 
comprehending 8000 acres, sloping to the banks of the 
Ugie. Population, including that of the village, 1760. 
STRICHEN, a village of the above parish, containing 
about 200 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in the 
linen manufacture; 15 miles west-by north of Peterhead. 
STRICKATHROW, a parish of Scotland, in the county 
of Forfar; 7 miles long, and 2 broad. Population 580. 
STRl'CKEN. The ancient participle of strike; but it 
has in the antiquated phrase stricken, (that is, advanced in 
years,) a meaning not borrowed from strike. —Abraham and 
Sarah were old, and well stricken in years. Genesis. 
STRICKLAND, Great. 1. A township of England, 
in Westmoreland ; 5| miles south-east-by-south of Penrith. 
—2. Strickland, Little, a township in the above county; 
Sh miles north-north-west of Orton.—3. Strickland, 
Kettle, also a township in Westmoreland; 3 miles north¬ 
west-by-west of Kendal.—4. Strickland, Roger, another 
township in the same county; 4 miles north-by-west of 
Kendal. 
STRI'CKLE, or Strickler, or Strickless, or Strit- 
chel, s. That which strikes the corn to level it with the 
bushel. Ainsworth. —This level measure of grain is here 
provincially termed stricke, and strickless. Shaw. — Strickle 
is an instrument used to whet scythes with. North. Grose. 
STRICT, adj. [strictus, Lat.] Exact; accurate; rigor¬ 
ously nice. 
He checks the bold design; 
And rules as strict his labour’d works confine, 
As if the Stagyrite o’erlook’d each line. Pope • 
Severe; rigorous; not mild; not indulgent. 
Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends 
To the strict deputy. Shakspeare. 
Confined; not extensive.—As they took the compass of 
their commission stricter or larger, so their dealings were 
more or less moderate. Hooker. —Close; tight. 
The god, with speedy pace. 
Just thought to strain her in a strict embrace. Dry den. 
Tense; not relaxed.—We feel our fibres grow strict or 
lax according to the state of the air. Arbuthnot. 
STRI'CTLY, adv. Exactly; with rigorous accuracy. 
Charge him strictly 
Not to proceed, but wait my farther pleasure. Dry den. 
Rigorously; severely; without remission or indulgence. 
—A weak prince again disposed the people to new attempts, 
which it was the clergy’s duty to endeavour to prevent, if 
some of them had not proceeded upon a topic that, strictly 
followed, would enslave all mankind. Swift. —Closely; 
tightly; with tenseness. 
STRI'CTNESS, s. Exactness; rigorous accuracy; nice 
regularity.—Such of them as cannot be concealed connive 
at, though in the strictness of your judgment you cannot 
pardon. Dryden. —Severity; rigour.—These commission¬ 
ers proceeded with such strictness and severity as did much 
obscure the king’s mercy. Bacon. —Closeness; tightness; 
not laxity. 
STRUCTURE, s. [from strictura, Lat. a spark.] A 
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stroke; a touch.—The God of nature implanted in their 
vegetable natures certain passive strictures, or signatures of 
that wisdom which hath made and ordered all things with 
the highest reason. Hale. —Contraction; closure by con¬ 
traction.—As long as there is thirst, with a free passage by 
urine, and stricture of the vessels, so long is water safely 
taken. Arbuthnot. —A slight touch upon a subject; not a 
set discourse.—Thus have I past through all your letter, and 
given myself the liberty of these strictures, by way of re¬ 
flection on all and every passage. Hammond. 
STRICTURE of the (Esophagus, &c. See Patho¬ 
logy. 
STRIDE, i. [ftpsebe, Sax.] A long step; a step taken 
with great violence; a wide divarication of the legs. 
I’ll speak between the change of man and boy. 
With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps 
Into a manly stride. Shakspeare. 
To STRIDE, v. n. pret. strode or strid; part. pass. 
stridden. To walk with long steps. 
Mars in the middle of the shining shield 
Is grav’d, and strides along the liquid field. Dryden. 
To stand with the legs far from each other. 
To STRIDE, v. a. To pass by a step. 
See him stride 
Valleys wide. Arbuthnot. 
STRIDO, a small town in the south-west of Hungary. It 
is chiefly remarkable as being the ancient Stridonia, the 
birth-place of St. Jerome, a well known father of the 
Christian church; 116 miles south of Vienna, and 12 north¬ 
west of Csakathurn. 
STRI'DOR, s. [Lat.] A quick loud noise; a clap. 
Juturna from afar beheld her fly. 
And knew the ill omen by her screaming cry, 
And stridor of her wings. Dryden. 
STRI'DULOUS, adj. [stridulus, Lat.] Making a small 
noise; hissing; creaking; chattering.—Not a stridulous 
jay, not a petulant sparrow. Bp. Hall. 
STRIEGAU, a small town of Prussian Silesia. It con¬ 
tains 2700 inhabitants, and has several distilleries, but is 
more remarkable for the victory obtained here over the 
Austrians and Saxons by the Prussians, on the 4th June, 
1745; 9 miles north-west of Schweidnitz, and 32 west-by¬ 
south of Breslau. 
STRIEGIZ, a small river of Saxony, in the circle of 
the Erzgebirge, which falls into the Freyberg Mulda at 
Roswein. 
STRIFE, s. [estrif, old French, contention; discord; 
from estriver. See To Strive.] Contention; contest; 
discord; war; lawsuit. 
These vows, thus granted, rais’d a strife above 
Betwixt the god of war and queen of love: 
She granting first, had right of time to plead; 
But he had granted too; and would recede. Dryden. 
Contest of emulation. 
Thus gods contended, noble strife ! 
Who most should ease the wants of life. Congreve. 
Opposition; contrariety; contrast. 
Artificial strife 
Lives in those touches, livelier than life. Shakspeare. 
Natural contrariety ; as, the strife of acid and alkali. 
STRI'FEFUL, adj. Contentious; discordant.—I know 
not what new creation may creep forth from the strifeful 
heap of things, into which, as into a second chaos, we are 
fallen. Dr. Maine. 
STRIGES, in the Ancient Architecture, are what in the 
modern we call flutings. 
STRIGIL, an instrument used among the ancients in 
their baths, and at some of their gymnastic exercises. 
It served to absterge the sweat, or other sordes, from the 
body. Persons who intended to bathe, or to use any of 
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