Strike (v. i.) To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.
Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.
Strike (v. i.) To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.
Strike (v. i.) To steal money.
Strike (n.) The act of striking.
Strike (n.) An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
Strike (n.) A bushel; four pecks.
Strike (n.) An old measure of four bushels.
Strike (n.) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
Strike (n.) An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
Strike (n.) The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer.
Strike (n.) A puddler's stirrer.
Strike (n.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.
Strike (n.) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.
Striker (n.) One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.
Striker (n.) A harpoon; also, a harpooner.
Striker (n.) A wencher; a lewd man.
Striker (n.) A workman who is on a strike.
Striker (n.) A blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought.
Striking () a. & n. from Strike, v.
Striking (a.) Affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible; impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance.
Strikle (n.) See Strickle.
String (n.) A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
String (n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
String (n.) A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
String (n.) The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
String (n.) The line or cord of a bow.
String (n.) A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
String (n.) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
String (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
String (n.) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
String (n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
String (n.) Same as Stringcourse.
String (n.) The points made in a game.
Strung (imp.) of String
Strung (p. p.) of String
Stringed () of String
Stringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of String
String (v. t.) To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
String (v. t.) To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
String (v. t.) To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
String (v. t.) To make tense; to strengthen.
String (v. t.) To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
Stringboard (n.) Same as Stringpiece.
Stringcourse (n.) A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.
Stringed (a.) Having strings; as, a stringed instrument.
Stringed (a.) Produced by strings.
Stringency (n.) The quality or state of being stringent.
Stringendo (a.) Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.
Stringent (a.) Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules.
Stringer (n.) One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
Stringer (n.) A libertine; a wencher.
Stringer (n.) A longitudinal sleeper.
Stringer (n.) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
Stringer (n.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.
Stringhalt (n.) An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.
Stringiness (n.) Quality of being stringy.
Stringless (a.) Having no strings.
Stringpiece (n.) A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:
Stringpiece (n.) One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.
Stringy (a.) Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
Stringy (a.) Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
Stripped (imp. & p. p.) of Strip
Stripping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strip
Strip (v. t.) To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.
Strip (v. t.) To divest of clothing; to uncover.
Strip (v. t.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.
Strip (v. t.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.
Strip (v. t.) To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.
Strip (v. t.) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
Strip (v. t.) To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.
Strip (v. t.) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.
Strip (v. t.) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.
Strip (v. t.) To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
Strip (v. t.) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
Strip (v. t.) To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
Strip (v. i.) To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.
Strip (v. i.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8.
Strip (n.) A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.
Strip (n.) A trough for washing ore.
Strip (n.) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
Stripe (n.) A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe.
Stripe (n.) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
Stripe (n.) A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed upon a garment.
Stripe (n.) A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark.
Stripe (n.) A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like.
Stripe (n.) Color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe.
Stripe (n.) The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.
Striped (imp. & p. p.) of Stripe
Striping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stripe
Stripe (v. t.) To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.
Stripe (v. t.) To strike; to lash.
Striped (a.) Having stripes of different colors; streaked.
Strip-leaf (n.) Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
Stripling (n.) A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.
Stripper (n.) One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
Strippet (n.) A small stream.
Stripping (n.) The act of one who strips.
Stripping (n.) The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.
Strisores (n. pl.) A division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificial group.