STRINGHALT
STRINGHALT, noun [string and halt.] A sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive motion of the muscles that extend or bend the hough. [This w...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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STRINGING
STRINGING, participle present tense Furnishing with strings; putting in tune; filling; making tense; depriving of strings.
STRINGLESS
STRINGLESS, adjective Having no strings.His tongue is now a stringless instrument.
STRINGY
STRINGY, adjective1. Consisting of strings or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as a stringy root.2. Ropy; viscid; gluey; that may be drawn into a thread.
STRIP
STRIP, verb transitive [G., to strip to flay, to stripe or streak, to graze upon, to swerve, ramble or stroll. Latin]1. To pull or tear off, as a covering; as, to strip the skin...
STRIPE
STRIPE, noun [See Strip. It is probable that this word is taken from stripping.]1. A line or long narrow division of any thing, of a different color from the ground as a stripe ...
STRIPED
STRIPED, participle passive1. Formed with lines of different colors.2.adjective Having stripes of different colors.
STRIPING
STRIPING, participle present tense Forming with stripes.
STRIPLING
STRIPLING, noun [from strip, stripe; primarily a tall slender youth, one that shoots up suddenly.] A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; ...
STRIPPED
STRIPPED, participle passive Pulled or torn off; peeled; skinned; deprived; divested; made naked; impoverished; husked, as maiz.
STRIPPER
STRIPPER, noun One that strips.
STRIPPING
STRIPPING, participle present tense Pulling off; peeling; skinning; flaying; depriving; divesting; husking.
STRIPPINGS
STRIPPINGS, noun The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.
STRIVE
STRIVE, verb intransitivepreterit tense strove; participle passive striven. [G. This word coincides in elements with drive, and the primary sense is nearly the same. See Rival.]...
STRIVER
STRIVER, noun One that strives or contends; one who makes efforts of body or mind.
STRIVING
STRIVING, participle present tense Making efforts; exerting the power of body or mind with earnestness; contending.STRIVING, noun The act of making efforts; contest; contention....
STRIVINGLY
STRIVINGLY, adverb With earnest efforts; with struggles.
STROBIL
STROBIL, noun [Latin] In botany, a pericarp formed from an ament by the hardening of the scales. IT is made up of scales that are imbricate, from an ament contracted or squeezed...
STROBILIFORM
STROBILIFORM, adjective [Latin, supra.] Shaped like a strobil, as a spike.
STROCAL
STROCAL, STROKAL, noun An instrument used by glass-makers to empty the metal from one pot to another.
STRODE
STRUDE, STRODE noun A stock of breeding mares.
STROKAL
STROCAL, STROKAL noun An instrument used by glass-makers to empty the metal from one pot to another.
STROKE
STROKE, STROOK, for struck.STROKE, noun [from strike.]1. A blow; the striking of one body against another; applicable to a club or to any heavy body, or to a rod, whip or lash. ...
STROKED
STROKED, participle passive Rubbed gently with the hand.
STROKER
STROKER, noun One who strokes; one who pretends to cure by stroking.
STROKESMAN
STROKESMAN, noun In rowing, the man who rows the aftmost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest.
STROKING
STROKING, participle present tense Rubbing gently with the hand.