STRANDING
STRANDING, participle present tense Running ashore; breaking a strand.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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STRANGE
STRANGE, adjective [Latin]1. Foreign; belonging to anther country.I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. [This sense is nearly obsolete.]2. Not domestic; ...
STRANGELY
STRANGELY, adverb1. With some relation to foreigners.2. Wonderfully; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder.How strangely active are the acts of peace.It would stran...
STRANGENESS
STRANGENESS, noun1. Foreignness; the state of belonging to another country.If I will obey the gospel, no distance of place, no strangeness of country can make any man a stranger...
STRANGER
STRANGER, noun1. A foreigner; one who belongs to another country. Paris and London are visited by strangers from all the countries of Europe.2. One of another town, city, state ...
STRANGLE
STRANGLE, verb transitive [Latin]1. To choke; to suffocate; to destroy life by stopping respiration.Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself.2. To suppre...
STRANGLED
STRANGLED, participle passive Choked; suffocated; suppressed.
STRANGLER
STRANGLER, noun One who strangles.
STRANGLES
STRANGLES, noun Swellings in a horses throat.
STRANGLING
STRANGLING, participle present tense Choking; suffocating; suppressing.STRANGLING, noun The act of destroying life by stopping respiration.
STRANGULATED
STRANGULATED, adjective Compressed. A hernia or rupture is said to be strangulated when it is so compressed as to cause dangerous symptoms.
STRANGULATION
STRANGULATION, noun [Latin]1. The act of strangling; the act of destroying life by stopping respiration; suffocation.2. That kind of suffocation which is common to women in hyst...
STRANGURY
STRANGURY, noun [Latin, Gr., a drop, urine.] Literally, a discharge of urine by drops; a difficulty of discharging urine, attended with pain.
STRAP
STRAP, noun [Latin strap and strop appear to be from stripping, and perhaps stripe also; all having resemblance to a strip of bark peeled from a tree.]1. A long narrow slip of c...
STRAP-SHAPED
STRAP-SHAPED, adjective In botany, ligulate.
STRAPPADO
STRAPPADO, noun A military punishment formerly practiced. It consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall, by which means a limb was sometimes disl...
STRAPPING
STRAPPING, participle present tense1. Drawing on a strap, as a razor.2. Binding with a strap.3.adjective Tall; lusty; as a strapping fellow.
STRATA
STRATA, nounplural [See Stratum.] Beds; layers; as strata of sand, clay or coal.
STRATAGEM
STRATAGEM, noun [Latin, Gr., to lead an army.]1. An artifice, particularly in war; a plan or scheme for deceiving an enemy.2. An artifice; a trick by which some advantage is int...
STRATEGE
STRATEGE, STRATEGUS, noun [Gr.] An Athenian general officer.
STRATEGUS
STRATEGE, STRATEGUS noun [Gr.] An Athenian general officer.
STRATH
STRATH, noun A vale, bottom or low ground between hills. [Not in use.]
STRATIFICATION
STRATIFICATION, noun [from stratify.]1. The process by which substances in the earth have been formed into strata or layers.2. The state of being formed into layers in the earth...
STRATIFIED
STRATIFIED, participle passive Formed into a layer, as a terrene substance.
STRATIFY
STRATIFY, verb transitive [Latin]1. To form into a layer, as substances in the earth. Thus clay, sand and other species of earth are often found stratified.2. To lay in strata.
STRATIFYING
STRATIFYING, participle present tense Arranging in a layer, as terrene substances.
STRATOCRACY
STRATOCRACY, noun [Gr., an army; to hold.] A military government; government by military chiefs and an army.