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stuck fast. Knolles.— To pass with a quick and strong 
effect.—Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion 
strikes through the obscurity of the poem: any of these 
effect a present liking, but not a lasting admiration. Dry den. 
—To pay homage, as by lowering the sail. 
We see the wind sit sore upon our sails; , 
And yet we strike not, but securely perish. Shakspeare. 
To be put by some sudden act or motion into any state; 
to break forth.—It struck on a sudden into such reputation, 
that it scorns any longer to sculk, but owns itself publicly. 
Gov. of the Tongue. 
To Strike in with. To conform; to suit itself to; to 
join with at once.'—Those who, by the prerogative of their 
age, should frown youth into sobriety, imitate and strike 
in with them, and are really vicious that they may be thought 
young. South. 
To Strike out. To spread or rove; to make a sudden 
excursion.—When a great man strikes out into a sudden 
irregularity, he needs not question the respect of a retinue. 
Collier. 
STRIKE, s. A bushel; a dry measure of capacity; 
four pecks. 
What dowry has she ?—Some two hundred bottles. 
And twenty strike of oats. Beaum. and FI. 
STRI'KEBLOCK, s. Is a plane shorter than the jointer, 
having its sole made exactly flat and straight, and is used for 
the shooting of a short joint. Moxon. 
STRI'ICER, s. Person or thing that strikes.—Music, the 
most divine striker of the senses. Sidney. 
STRI'KING, part. ad). Affecting; surprising.—Though 
colour be the lowest of all the constituent parts of beauty, yet 
it is vulgarly the most striking. Spence. 
STRIKINGLY, adv. So as to affect or surprise.—The 
force of many strikingly poetical passages has been weak¬ 
ened or unperceived, because their origin was unknown, un¬ 
explored, or misunderstood. Warton. 
STRI'KINGNESS, s. The power of affecting or sur¬ 
prising. 
STRIMMING, a village of the Prussian province of the 
Lower Rhine, near Coblentz, with 900 inhabitants. 
STRING, s. [ftping, Sax.; streng, German and Danish; 
stringhc, Dutch; stringo, Lat.] A slender rope ; a small 
cord; any slender and flexible band.—Any lower bullet 
hanging upon the other above it, must be conceived, as if 
the weight of it were in that point where its string touches 
the upper. Wilkins. —A riband. 
Round Ormond’s knee thou ty’st the mystic string, 
That makes the knight companion to the king. Prior. 
A thread on which any things are filed.■—Their priests 
pray by their beads, having a string with a hundred of 
nutshells upon it; and the repeating of certain words with 
them they count meritorious. Stillingfleet. —Any set of 
things filed on a line.—I have caught two of these dark 
undermining, vermin, and intend to make a string of them, 
in order to hang them up in one of my papers. Addison. 
—The chord of a musical instrument. 
Thus when two brethren strings are set alike. 
To move them both, but one of them we strike. 
Cowley. 
A small fibre.—Duckweed putteth forth a little string in 
the water, from the bottom. Bacon. —A nerve; a tendon. 
The most piteous tale, which in recounting, 
His grief grew puissant, and the strings of life 
Began to crack. Shakspeare. 
The nerve or line of the bow. 
Th’ impetuous arrow whizzes on the wing. 
Sounds the tough horn, and twangs the quiv’ring string. 
Pope. 
Any concatenation or series; as, a string of propositions. 
To have two Strings to the how. To have two views 
or two expedients; to have double advantage, or double 
security. 
No lover has that power 
T’ enforce a desperate amour, 
As he that has two strings to's bow. 
And burns for love and money too. Hudibras. 
To STRING, v. a. pret. strung, part. pass, strung, 
[from the noun.] To furnish with strings. 
Has not wise nature strung the legs and feet 
With firmest nerves, design’d to walk the street > Gay. 
To put a stringed instrument in tune. 
Here the muse so oft her harp has strung. 
That not a mountain rears it head unsung. Addison. 
To file on a string.—Men of great learning or genius are 
too full to be exact; and therefore chuse to throw down 
their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the 
pains of stringing them. Spectator. —To make tense— 
Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood. Dryden. 
STRI'NGED, adj. Having strings; produced by strings. 
Divinely warbled voice, 
Answering the stringed noise. 
As all their souls in blissful rapture took. Milton. 
STRl'NGENT, adj. [stringens, Lat.] Binding; con¬ 
tracting. 
What down doth dive 
Into the straiten’d cuspis, needs must strive 
With stringent bitterness, vexation. More. 
The serpents twisting round their stringent folds, 
Inextricable tie! Thomson. 
STRI'NGER, s. One who makes strings for a bow. 
Obsolete.—Stringers ought more diligently to be looked 
upon—than either bowyer or fletcher. Ascham. 
STRI'NGHALT, s. A sudden twitching and snatch¬ 
ing up of the hinder leg of a horse much higher than the-' 
other, or an involuntary or convulsive motion of the muscles 
that extend or bend the hough. Farrier's Diet. 
STRI'NGLESS, adj. Having no strings. 
Nothing; all is said ; 
His tongue is now a stringless instrument. 
Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath spent. Shakspeare. 
STRINGSTON, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 
10 miles north-west-by-west of Bridgewater. 
STRl'NGY, adj. Fibrous, consisting of small threads; 
filamentous.—A plain Indian fan, made of small stringy 
parts of roots spread out in a round flat form. Grew. 
To STRIP, v. a. [beptpypan, Sax. denudare; streifen. 
Germ, decorticare; strypr, Icel. nudum corpus, stripdr, 
denudatus. Serenius.] To make naked; to deprive- of 
covering: with of before the thing taken away. 
Hadst thou not committed 
Notorious murder on those thirty men 
At Askalon, who never did thee harm, 
Then like a robber stripp'dst them of their robes. Milton. 
The bride was put in form to bed; 
He follow’d stript. Swift. 
To deprive; to divest.—One would imagine these to be 
the expressions of a man blessed with ease and affluence, not 
of one just stript of all those advantages, and plunged in 
the deepest miseries; and now sitting naked upon a dung¬ 
hill. Atterbury. —To rob ; to plunder; to pillage: as, a 
thief stripped the house.—That which lays a man open to 
an enemy, and that which strips him of a friend, equally 
attacks him in all those interests that are capable of being 
weakened by the one, and supported by the other. South. 
—To peel; to decorticate.—If the leaves or dried stocks be 
stripped into small straws, they arise unto amber, wax, and 
other electerics, no other ways than those of wheat or rye. 
Brown.- —To deprive of all.—When some fond easy fathers 
strip themselves before they lie down to their long sleep, 
and settle their whole estates upon their sons, has it not been 
seen that the father has been requited with beggary } South. 
—To take off covering: with off emphatical.—He stript off 
his clothes. 1 Sam. —To cast off. Not in use. 
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