Stram (v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.
Stram (v. t.) To dash down; to beat.
Stramash (v. t.) To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy.
Stramash (n.) A turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight.
Stramazoun (n.) A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword.
Stramineous (a.) Strawy; consisting of straw.
Stramineous (a.) Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.
Stramonium (n.) A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.
Stramony (n.) Stramonium.
Strand (n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
Strand (v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope).
Strand (n.) The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
Stranded (imp. & p. p.) of Strand
Stranding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strand
Strand (v. t.) To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
Strang (a.) Strong.
Strange (superl.) Belonging to another country; foreign.
Strange (superl.) Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.
Strange (superl.) Not before known, heard, or seen; new.
Strange (superl.) Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer.
Strange (superl.) Reserved; distant in deportment.
Strange (superl.) Backward; slow.
Strange (superl.) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
Strange (adv.) Strangely.
Strange (v. t.) To alienate; to estrange.
Strange (v. i.) To be estranged or alienated.
Strange (v. i.) To wonder; to be astonished.
Strangely (adv.) As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange.
Strangely (adv.) In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly.
Strangely (adv.) In a strange manner; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder; wonderfully.
Strangeness (n.) The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
Stranger (n.) One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.
Stranger (n.) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.
Stranger (n.) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.
Stranger (n.) One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.
Stranger (n.) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
Stranger (n.) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.
Stranger (v. t.) To estrange; to alienate.
Strangled (imp. & p. p.) of Strangle
Strangling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strangle
Strangle (v. t.) To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.
Strangle (v. t.) To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.
Strangle (v. t.) To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
Strangle (v. i.) To be strangled, or suffocated.
Strangleable (a.) Capable of being strangled.
Strangler (n.) One who, or that which, strangles.
Strangles (n.) A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.
Strangulate (a.) Strangulated.
Strangulated (a.) Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia.
Strangulated (a.) Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted.
Strangulation (n.) The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.
Strangulation (n.) Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.
Strangurious (a.) Of or pertaining to strangury.
Strangury (n.) A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.
Strangury (n.) A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it.
Strany (n.) The guillemot.
Strap (n.) A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.
Strap (n.) Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.
Strap (n.) A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.
Strap (n.) A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
Strap (n.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
Strap (n.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
Strap (n.) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
Strap (n.) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
Strap (n.) A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder.
Strapped (imp. & p. p.) of Strap
Strapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strap
Strap (v. t.) To beat or chastise with a strap.
Strap (v. t.) To fasten or bind with a strap.
Strap (v. t.) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
Strappadoes (pl. ) of Strappado
Strappado (n.) A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated.
Strappado (v. t.) To punish or torture by the strappado.
Strapper (n.) One who uses strap.
Strapper (n.) A person or thing of uncommon size.
Strapping (a.) Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow.
Strapple (v. t.) To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle.
Strap-shaped (a.) Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
Strapwork (n.) A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.
Strass (n.) A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium. Cf. Glass.
Strata (n.) pl. of Stratum.
Stratagem (n.) An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
Stratagemical (a.) Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle.
Stratarithmetry (n.) The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
Strategetic (a.) Alt. of Strategetical
Strategetical (a.) Strategic.
Strategetics (n.) Strategy.
Strategic (a.) Alt. of Strategical
Strategical (a.) Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice.
Strategics (n.) Strategy.
Strategist (n.) One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.
Strategi (pl. ) of Strategus
Strategus (n.) The leader or commander of an army; a general.
Strategy (n.) The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.
Strategy (n.) The use of stratagem or artifice.
Strath (n.) A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore.
Strathspey (n.) A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune.
Straticulate (a.) Characterized by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate.
Stratification (n.) The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.