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these exercises, when they entered the gymnasium, put off 
their clothes in the apodyterium; after which, such of them 
as intended to box, wrestle, or to use any of the more 
violent exercises, went into the alipterium, where they were 
anointed, and thence returning into the place where the dust 
was, they were sprinkled with this as they passed along, and 
. then entered upon their several exercises; after this they re¬ 
turned to the alipterium, where they had the sweat and sordes 
wiped off from their bodies by the alipta w'ith an iron strigil. 
STRIGILIA [so named by Cavanilles, in allusion to the 
resemblance of the anthers to a strigil, or curry-comb], in 
Botany, a genus of the class decandria, order nronogynia, 
natural order trihilatae, meliee (Juss.) —Generic Character. 
Calyx : perianth inferior, of oue leaf, bell-shaped, with five 
small teeth. Corolla, of one petal; tube cylindrical, the 
length of the calyx; limb in five deep, segments. Nectary 
a short cylindrical tube, of one leaf, hairy at the summit, 
bearing the anthers. Stamina: filaments scarcely any; 
anthers ten, erect, linear, besprinkled on the inner surface 
with starry hairs. Pistil: germen superior, ovate; style 
triangular, the length of the stamens; stigmas three, promi¬ 
nent, globose, combined. Seeds solitary. —Essential Cha¬ 
racter. Calyx five toothed. Corolla in five deep segments. 
Nectary tubular, shorter than the tube of the corolla, hairy, 
bearing the stamens. Anthers linear, erect. Fruit of six 
cells, with solitary seeds. 
Strigilia racemosa.—The stem is shrubby, with round, 
downy, rusty, leafy branches. Leaves alternate, elliptical, 
entire, three or four inches long, single-ribbed, veiny, on 
shortish thick stalks; smooth above, clothed with reddish 
down beneath. Flowers in axillary simple clusters, shorter 
than the leaves. 
STRFGMENT, s. [strigmentum , from stringo, Lat. 
to scrape.] Scraping; recrement.—Many, besides the strig- 
ments and sudorous adhesions from men’s hands, acknow¬ 
ledge that nothing proceedeth from gold in its usual decoc¬ 
tion. Brown. 
STRIGOVA. See Strido. 
To STRIKE, v. a. pret. struck or strook ; part. pass. 
struck, strucken, stricken, or strook. [apcpican, Saxon ; 
strcichen, German; adstrykia, Icelandic; striker, Dan¬ 
ish.] To act upon by a blow ; to hit with a blow. 
Heat Philippi kept 
His sword e’en likeadancer, while I struck 
The lean and wrinkled Cassius. Shakspeare. 
To punish; to afflict.—To punish the just is not good, nor 
to strike princes for equity. Prov .—To dash; to throw 
by a quick motion.—The blood strike on the two side-posts. 
Ew. —To notify by sound.—The Windsor bell hath struck 
twelve. Shakspeare. —To stamp; to impress.—The me¬ 
mory in some men is very tenacious; but yet there seems to 
be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are 
struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive. Locke .— 
To contract; to lower; to vale. It is only used in the 
phrases to strike sail, or to strike a flag. 
How many nobles then would hold their places, 
That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort! Shakspeare. 
Now, did I not so nearmy labour’s end. 
Strike sail, and hast’ning to the harbour tend, 
My song to flow’ry gardens might extend. Dry den. 
To alarm ; to put into emotion; to surprise. 
Court virtues bear, lie gems, the highest rate. 
Born where heaven’s influence scarce can penetrate; 
In life’s low vale, the soil the virtues like. 
They please as beauties, here as wonders strike. Pope. 
\Foedus ferirei] To make a bargain. 
Sign but his peace, he vows he’ll ne’er again 
The sacred namesof fops and beaus profane: 
Strike up the bargain quickly; for I swear, 
As times go now, he offers very fair. Dry den. 
To produce by a sudden action. 
Take my caduceus! 
With this the infernal ghosts I can command. 
And strike a terror through the Stygian strand. Dry den. 
To affect suddenly in any particular manner. 
Strike her young bones. 
Ye taking airs, with lameness. Shakspeare. 
He that is stricken blind cannot forget 
The precious treasure of his eye-sight lost. Shakspeare 
To cause to sound by blows; with up only emphatical. 
Strike up the drums and let the tongue of war, 
Plead for our interest, and our being here. Shakspeare. 
To forge; to mint. 
Though they the lines on golden anvils beat. 
It looks as if they struck them at a heat. Tate. 
It is used in the participle, for advanced in years. 
The king, 
Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen 
Well struck in years; fair and not jealous. Shakspeare. 
To Strike off. To erase from a reckoning or account. 
I have this while with leaden thoughts been prest; 
But I shall in a more convenient time 
Strike off this score of absence. Shakspeare. 
To Strike off. To separate by a blow, or any sudden 
action.—Germany had stricken off that which appeared 
corrupt in the doctrine of the church of Rome; but seemed, 
nevertheless, in discipline still to retain therewith great con¬ 
formity. Hooker. —They followed so fast that they over¬ 
took him, and without further delay struck off his head. 
Kno/les. 
To Strike out. To produce by collision. 
My thoughtless youth was wing’d in vain desires; 
My manhood long misled by wand’ring fires, 
Follow’d false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, 
My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Drydcn. 
To Strike out. To blot; to efface.—By expurgatory 
animadversions, we might strike out great numbers of 
hidden qualities, and having once a conceded list, with more 
safety attempt their reasons. Brown. 
To Strike out. To bring to light. 
To Strike out. To form at once by a quick effort. 
Whether thy hand strike out some free design. 
Where life awakes and dawns at ev’ry line. 
Or blend in beauteous tints the colour’d mass. 
And from the canvas call the mimic face. 
To STRIKE, v. n. To make a blow. 
I, in mine own woe charm’d, 
Could not find death, where I did hear him groan ; 
Nor feel him where he struck. Shakspeare, 
To collide; to clash.—Holding a ring by a thread in a 
glass, tell him that holdeth it, it shall strike so many times 
against the side of the glass, and no more. Bacon. —To act, 
by repeated percussion. 
Bid thy mistress when my drink is ready. 
She strike upon the bell. Shakspeare. 
To sound by the stroke of a hammer.—Caesar, ’tis strucken 
eight. Shakspeare. —To make an attack. 
Is not the king’s name forty thousand names ? 
Arm, arm, my name; a puny subject strikes 
At thy great glory. Shakspeare. 
To act by external influx.—Consider the red and white 
colours in porphyre; hinder light but from striking on it 
and its colours vanish. Locke. —To sound with blows. 
Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up. 
His sword did ne’er leave striking in the field. Shakspeare. 
To be dashed; to be stranded.—The admiral’s galley, 
wherein the emperor was, struck upon a sand, and there 
stuck 
