They] are spotted and of divers colours, streaked with

yellow lines overthwart their wings.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxix. c. 5.

Searce had he finish'd, when, with speckled pride,

A serpent from the tomb began to glide:

His hugy bulk on seven high volumes roll'd;
Blue was his breadth of back, but streak'd with scaly gold.
Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. v.
Now Morn with rosy light had streak'd the sky,
Up rose the sun, and up rose Emily.

Id. Palamon & Arcite, b. iii.
For now the streaky light began to peep;
And setting stars admonish'd both to sleep.

Id. The Hind and the Panther.

Her lovely cheekes a pure vermillion shed
Like roses beautifully streak'd with red.

Fawkes. The Loves of Hero & Leander. He reported that three streaks of the sheathing, about eight feet long, were wanting

STREAM, n.

STREAM, P.

STREAMER.

STRE'AMFUL.

STRE'AMLET. STREAMY.

Streams never flow in vain; where streams abound, How laughs the land with various plenty crown'd! Cowper. A Comparison. These streamers of Omai were a mixture of English, French, Spanish, and Dutch, which were all the European colour that he had seen.-Cook. Third Voyage, b. iii. c. 4. The monk gazed long on the lovely moon, Then into the night he looked forth; And red and bright the streamers light Were dancing in the glowing north. He knew, by the streamers, that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light.

Scott. Lay of the Last Minstrel, c. 2. Salutary plants grow luxuriantly, with little labour of the plough and harrow, in a rich loam, warmed with a genial sunshine, and duly irrigated by the streamlet in the valley. Knox. Remarks on Grammar Schools.

STREET. A. S. Stræt, stret, platea, vicus, Cook. First Voyage, b. iii. c. 4. via, a way, a street-it. forum, a market place, Dut. Stroom; Ger. Strom; (Somner.) Dut. Stræte; Ger. Strasse; It. Strada. Sw. Ström ; All from the Lat. Strata, supple via, via strata A. S. Stream; lapidibus, -Skinner; and to the same effect Dut. Stroomen ; Ger. StrooKilian and Wachter; but such were not the men; Sw. Strömma; A. S. streets of our northern ancestors. Stream-ian, to flow. Street,-It. Stretto; Sp. Estrecho; Fr. Stroict, is, (as Cotthe past part. of stringere. grave says,)-any strait narrow place, from strictus, See STRICT.

To flow, to float; to move in a current; to issue forth, to emit; to pour forth, a current.

Streamer-that which streams or floats as a flag, an ensign, (in the wind.)

His eyen two for pity of his herte
Out siremeden as swift as welles twey.

Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. iv.

And thries hadde she ben at Jerusaleme.
She hadde passed many a strange streme.

Id. Prol. to the Canterbury Tales, v. 465.

It springeth vp as doth a welle,
Whiche maie no man of his stremes hide
But renneth out on euery side.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii.
For wher the hilles ben most hie,

There maie men well stremes finde.-Id. Ib. b. vii.

Insteade of streaming sayles

hee wishes hanges aloft:

Which if in tempest chaunce to teare
the barck will come to nought.

Turbervile. That all Things haue Release, &c.

It may so please, that she at length will streame
Some deaw of grace into my withered hart,
After long sorrow and consuming smart.

Spenser. In Honour of Beautie, Hymne 2.
And with his streaming gore
Distaines the pillours and the holy grownd,
And the faire floures that decked him afore.

Id. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 4.

First, in the Kentish streamer was a wood,
Out of whose top an arm that held a sword,
As their right emblem.-Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt.

Thus like a ship, despoiled of her sails,
Shov'd by the winds against the streamful tide,
This way the one, that way the other hales,
Now tou'rds this shore, and now tou'rds that doth ride.
Id. Legende of Pierce Gaveston.

Wide rage inuades him, and he prayes, that soone the sacred morne

Would light his furie; boasting then, our streamers shall be torne,

And all our nauall ornaments, fall by his conquering stroke:

Our ships shall burne, and we our selues, lye stifl'd in the smoke. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. ix.

'Tis like the murmuring of a stream, which not varying In the fall, causes at first attention, at last drowsiness. Dryden. An Essay of Dramatic Poesie.

While thus she wanton'd, now beneath the wave
But ill conceal'd; and now with streaming locks
That half embrac'd her in a humid veil,
Rising again, the latent Damon drew

Such maddening draughts of beauty to the soul,
As for a while o'erwhelm'd his raptur'd thought
With luxury too daring.

Thomson. Summer.

Her flag aloft spread ruffling to the wind,
And sanguine streamers seem the flood to fire.
Dryden. Annus Mirabilis.
And hence the streamlets seek the terrace' shade
Within, without, alike to all convey'd.

to public ways in towns, passable by carriages. A narrow way or path: - now usually applied

Barfot and bredles. beggeth thei of no man

And thauh he mete with the meyere. in mydest the strete He reverenceth hym ryght nouht. no rather than a nother. Piers Ploukman, p. 153. He schal not stryve ne crie; neither any man schal here his voice in stretis.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 12.

He shall not stryue, he shal not crie, neither shall any man heare his voyce in the stretes.—Bible, 1551. Ib.

Go out swithe into the grete stretis and smale stretis of the citee and bringe yn hidir pore men and feble. blynde and crokid.-Wielif. Luk, c. 14.

Go out quickly into ye stretes and quarters of the cytie, and brynge in hyther the poore and the maymed and the halt and the blynde.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And after that made hir offrende,
And to the prestes yftes great
She yafe, and homeward by the strete
The duke hir mette.

Gower. Con. A. b. i.

For while I ran by the most secret stretes
Eschuing still the common haunted track,
From me catif, alas, bereued was
Creusa then my spouse, I wote not how.

Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii.
And here this famous fatal place again
Is made the stage of blood-again these streets
Embru'd with slaughter, cover'd with the slain,
Witness what desp'rate wrath with rancour meets.

Daniel. History of the Civil War, b. vii.

Man. I have attempted one by one the lords
Either at home, or through the high street passing,
With supplication prone and fathers tears
To accept of ransome for my son thir pris'ner.

Millon. Samson Agonistes.
Through winter streets to steer your course aright
How to walk clear by day, and safe by night;
How jostling crowds with prudence to decline,
When to assert the wall, and when resign,
I sing.

STRENGTH, n. STRENGTH, V. STRENGTHEN, v. STRENGTHENER. STRENGTHENING, n. STRENGTHLESS.

to have.

Gay. Trivia, b. i. See STRONG. A. S. Strengthe: "that (says Tooke) which stringeth or maketh strong." " A.S. Strang-ian, valere, prevalere, to have or cause

Savage. The Wanderer, c. 1. add, or give strength.

He answerde and seide, thou schalt loue thi Lord God of alle thin herte: and of alle thi soule and of alle thy strengthis. Wiclif. Luk, a 10. And he answered and sayd: Loue the Lord God, with al thy hert, and wt al thy soule, and wyth al thy strengthe. Bible, 1551. Ib. I woll thou vnderstande these matters, to been saied of

thy self, in disprouyng of thy firste seruice, and in strengthyng of thilk that thou hast vndertake.

Chaucer. The Testament of Loue, b. ii. And he that may have the lordshipe of his owen herte, is more to preise than he that by force or strengthe taketh gret

citees.-Id. The Tale of Melibeus.

Fortune, whiche maie euery threde To breke and knitte of mans spede Shope, as this knight rode in a pase That he by strength taken was.-Gower. Con. 4. b. i. Thus was she strengthed for to stonde.-Id. Ib. b. ii. His body was viii foote long, and his armes and leggys well lengthed and strengthed after the proporcion of ye body. Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 156.

This kynge caste doune dyuerse castellys, yt before in the tyme of kyng Stephan, were buylded, other for displeasure of ye ouners, or ellys for fere they shulde be strengthed agayn hym.-Id. Ib. c. 236.

And yet neither that woord [wyllinglye] of it selfe, nor strengthed wyth all these other, can make but a bare fourme of arguinge if it were in a nother matter. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 860.

Our holye mother the churche thorowout all the world scattered farre and long, in her true head Christ Jesus taught, hath learned not to feare the cōtumelies of the crosse, nor yet of deathe, but more and more is shee strengthed, not in resisting but in sufferyng.- Id. Ib. p. 756.

More huge in strength then wise in workes he was.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 2.
Yet must I not part so with mine own strengths,
But borrow, from my modesty, boldness, to
Enquire by whose authority you sit

My judges.—Massinger. The Renegado, Act iv. sc. 2.

These bowmen drew a great strength and had strong bowes, which sent the arrows from them with a wonderfull force.-North. Plutarch, p. 477.

We have by thee far more than thine own worth,
That doth encourage, strengthen, and relieve
Our hopes in the succession of thy blood,
That like to thee, they likewise will be good.

Daniel. A Panegyric to the King.
Their meditation is without spiritual advantages, and is
not the commencement and strengthening of holy purposes.
Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 13.
Bal. Heavens cold and ling'ring spirit to punish sin,
And humane blood so fiery to commit it,
One so outgoes the other, it will never
Be turn'd to fit obedience.

Aub. Burst it then

With his full swing given, where it brooks no bound,
Complaints of it are vain; and all that rests
To be our refuge (since our powers are strengthless)
Is to conform our wills to suffer freely.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Bloody Brother, Act iii. sc. 1.
He his right shoulder strooke,
Where twixt his necke and breast, the ioynt, his natiue
closure tooke:

The wound was wondrous full of death, his string in sunder flees;

His nummed hand fell strengthlesse downe, and he upon his knees. Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xi.

The sire of gods, confirming Thetis' prayer, The Grecian ardour quench'd in deep despair; But lifts to glory Troy's prevailing bands Swells all their hearts, and strengthens all their hands. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xv. Garlic is of great vertue in all colics, a great strengthener of the stomach upon decays of appetite or indigestion, and I believe is (if at least there be any such) a specific remedy of the gout.-Sir W. Temple. Of Health & Long Life. They make of the poisonous juice of the same root a not unpleasant nor strengthless drink, which divers, even of the English, compare with our beer.

Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 486. The mischief his [Hobbs] writings had done to religior set Cudworth upon projecting its defence. Of this he pub lished one immortal volume; with a boldness uncommon indeed, but very becoming a man conscious of his own integrity and strength.—Warburton. The Divine Legation, Pref. 11 A

STRIP, v.

STRIP, n.

STRI PLING, n. STRIPPET.

Dut. Stroop-en; A. S. Strypan, bestryp-an, spoliare, exuere; to despoil, to take off.

To despoil, to take or tear or rip off or away; to lay bare or naked, empty or destitute; to divest, to deprive; to spoil, to rob, to pillage.

A strip, a piece, shred, slip-taken or torn off. Stripling, a dim. of strip, a small strip from the main stock or stem; a youth

Before the folk hireselven stripeth she,
And in hire smok, with foot and hed al bare,
Toward hire fadres hous forth is she fare.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8707.

I caused a seruaunt of myne to stryppe hym lyke a childe

before myne housholde, for amendement of himself, and ensample of such other.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 901.

He is but an yonglyng A tall worthy striplyng.

Skelton. Why come ye not to Court? When that at length the stripling saw in sight No creature there, but all were out of place, Hee shifts his robes and to the riuer ran, And there to bath him bare the boy began.

Turbervile. The Louer wisheth to be conioynted, &c.

So, as she bad, that witch they disaraid,
And robd of roiall robes, and purple pall,
And ornaments that richly were displaid;
Ne spared they to strip her naked all.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 8.
If ever I shall heare
This maddnesse from thy mouth againe, let not Vlysses
beare

This head, nor be the father call'd, of yong Telemachus; If to thy nakednesse, I take, and strip thee not, and thus Whip thee to fleet from Councell.

Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. ii. When a plum'd fanne may shade thy chalked face, And lawny strips thy naked bosom grace.

Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 4.

A mad man, or that feigned mad to bee,
Drew by the heare along upon the grownd
A handsom stripling with great crueltee,
Whom sore he bett, and gor'd with many a wownd,
That cheekes with teares, and sydes with blood, did all
abownd.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 4.

In Mula is a faire spring two miles from the sea, from whence runneth a little brooke or strippet.

Holinshed. Description of Scotland, c. 10.
Thou best Anana, thou the pride

of vegetable life, beyond whate'er
The poets imag'd in the golden age;
Quick let me strip thee of thy tufty coat,
Spread thy ambrosial stores, and feast with Jove!

Thomson. Summer.

Marshall'd in order due, to each a sewer Presents, to bathe his hands, a radiant ewer. Luxuriant then they feast. Observant round Gay stripling youths the brimming gobiets crown'd. Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. i. The moment they saw the king enter, they stripped themselves in great haste, being covered before."

Cook. Second Voyage, b. i. c. 11. To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin.-Gilpin, vol. ii. Ser. 39

STRIPE.

Dut. Strepen; lineam ducere, to STRIPED. draw a line; perhaps a strip.) A strip or piece from a broader substance; a linear breadth of different colour from the adjoining substance; a blow or lash with any thing long and narrow (like a strip); the mark made by such blow, or lash.

The seruaut that knew his masters wyl, and prepared not him selfe, neyther dyd accordynge to his wyl, shal be beaten wt many stripes. But he that knew not, and yet dyd cōmytte thynges worthy of strypes, shalbe beaten with fewe atrypes, [beatings, in Wiclif].—Bible, 1551. Luk, c. 12.

The shaftes of Inde were very longe, a yarde and an halfe, as Arrianus doth saye, or, at the least, a yarde, as Q. Curtius doth saye, and therefore they gave the greater strupe. Ascham. Toxophilus, b. ii.

Strongly he strove out of her greedy gripe
To loose his shield, and long while did contend;
But, when he could not quite it, with one stripe
Her lions clawes he from her feete away did wipe.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 11.

Shall it be said, that my posterity Shall live the sole heir of their fathers shame? And raise their wealth and glory from my stripes! Beaum. & Fletch. The Nice Valour, Act iv. se. 1. There is a very beautifu! sort of wild ass in this country, whose body is curiously striped with equal lists of white und black; the strips coming from the ridge of his back,

and ending under the belly, which is white. These stripes are two or three fingers broad, running parallel with each other, and curiously intermixt, one white and one black, over from the shoulder to the rump.

Dampier. Voyages, an. 1691.

For tyranny and slavery do not so properly consist in the stripes that are given and received, as in the power of giving them at pleasure, and the necessity of receiving them whenever and for whatever they are inflicted.

STRIVE, v. STRIVER. STRIVING, n. STRIFE, n.

Bolingbroke. Dissertation upon Parties, Let. 13. Dut. Streven; Ger. Streben; Sw. Straf-wa; Sp. Estribar; Fr. Estriver, niti, eniti, conari. The A. S. Straf-an, (which is preserved in the comp. Forthstref-an, progredi,) is perhaps the origin: to step, to step out, to stride.

STRIFE-FULL.

To move with labour, effort, or exertion; to labour, to exert, to endeavour; to contend, to contest.

Among hem, that bi leuede o liue, stryf me mygte se,
Wuche mest maistres were, & hoo schulde lord be.
R. Gloucester, p. 40.
Bi twene tho Romaynes & this lond ther bi gan tho
stryuyng.-Id. p. 76.

There was thys gode quene, wythoute eny striuynge.
Id. p. 325.
Eilred at London endid his life,
Auht & thritty wynter he regned with strife.
R. Brunne, p. 47.
And therfor we stryuen whethir absent whethir present to
plese to him.-Wiclif. 2 Corynth. c. 5.

That strife

Was not inglorious, though th' event was dire,
As this place testifies, and this dire change
Hateful to utter.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. 1.

Which to avenge on him they dearly vowd,
Whereever that on ground they mote him find:
False Archimage provokt their corage prowd,
And stryful Atin in their stubborne mind
Coles of contention and whot vengeaunce tind.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 8. But an imperfect striver may overcome sin in some instances, and yet in that to do no great matter neither, if he lies down, and goes no further.

Glanvill. Discourses, Ser. 1.

"The time to ease your groaning country's pain,
Which long your eager valour sought in vain;
The great deciding hour at length is come
To end the strivings of distracted Rome."

Rowe. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. vil

[We shall] look back with wondrous content and satisfac tion upon all those difficulties we contended with in our way, and bless those prayers and tears, and strivings with ourselves, those tedious watchings and self-examinations, &c. by which we have now at last conquered and subdued them.-Scott. Christian Life, pt. i. c. 4.

The state that strives for liberty, though foil'd,
And forc'd to abandon what she bravely sought,
Deserves at least applause for her attempt,
And pity for her loss.

Couper. Task, b. v. Ger. Streichen ; Dut. Strook

en ;

But I drede lest whanne I come I schal fynde ghou not suche as I wole, and I schal be foundun of ghou such as ghe wolen not, lest perauenture stryuyngis, enuyes, sturdinessis, dissenciouns, &c.-Id. Ib. c. 12.

I feare lest ther be found amonge you debate, enuying, wrath, stryfe, backbytynges, whysperynges, &c.

Bible, 1551. Ib. For it is ghouun to ghou for Crist, that not oonli ghe bileuen in him, but also that ghe suffren for him hauynge the same stryf which ghe saien in me and now ghe han herd of me.-Wiclif. Filipensis, c. 1.

"Forthermore ye knowen wel, that after the commune saw, it is a woodnesse, a man to strive with a stronger, or a more mighty man than he is himself: and to strive with a man of even strengthe, that is to say, with as strong a man as he is, it is peril; and for to strive with a weker man, it is folie; and therfore shulde a man flee striving, as muchel as he mighte."-Chaucer. The Tale of Melibeus.

Till it felle ones in a morwe of May
That Emelie, that fayrer was to sene
Than is the lilie upon his stalke grene,
And fresher than the May with floures newe,
(For with the rose colour strof hire hewe;
I n'ot which was the finer of hem two.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1036.
In so great prayse of stedfast chastity
Nathlesse she was so courteous and kynde,
Tempred with grace and goodly modesty,
That seemed those two vertues strove to fynd
The higher place in her heroick mynd;
So striving each did other more augment.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. íii. c. 5.
Who, dying whylome, did divide this fort
To them by equall shares in equall fee:
But stryfull mind and diverse qualitee
Drew them in partes, and each made others foe:
Still did they strive and daily disagree.-Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 2.
Where there is then no good

For which to strive, no strife can grow up there
From faction; for none sure will claim in hell
Precedence, none, whose portion is so small
Of present pain, that with ambitious mind
Will covet more.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii.

As when earth's son Antæus (to compare
Small things with greatest) in Irassa strove
With Joves Alcides, and oft foil'd still rose,
Receiving from his mother earth new strength.
Id. Paradise Regained, b. i.
In his first sleepe, call vp your hardiest cheare,
Vigor and violence, and hold him there,
In spite of all his striuings to be gone.

Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. iv. Every good man first sows in tears, he first drinks of the bottle of his own tears, sorrow and trouble, labour and disquiet, strivings and temptations.

Bp. Taylor, p. 204. Ser. 11. "If ever love of lady did empierce Your yron brestes, or pitty could find place, Withold your bloody bandes from battail fierce; And, sith for me ye fight, to me this grace Both yield, to stay your deadly strufe a space." Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 6.

To draw (sc.) the hand gently along; soothingly, caressingly.

Viis. You shake my Lord at something; will you gue! you will breake out.

Troy She stroakes his cheeke.

Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cress. Act iv. sc. 5. This island's mine by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me; when thou cam'st first Thou stroakst me, & made much of me.

Id. The Tempest, Act i. sc. 2.

The manner of his cure in those imperfections is somewhat strange; he useth no bindings, but oyls and streakings, of which I take him to be (in all my reading) both the instrument and the author.-Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 162.

She follow'd where her fellows went, as she
Were still a partner of the company:
They stroke her neck; the gentle heifer stands,
And her neck offers to their stroking hands.

Dryden. Orid. Metam. b. i. They will remind us of the cures worked by Greatrix the stroaker, in the memory of our fathers; and of those performed at the tomb of Abbé Paris, in our own.

STROLL, v. STROLL, N. STROLLER.

Warburton. Works, vol. x. Ser. 27.

Contracted from straggle, · (qv.)

To straggle or stray about;

to rove, to ramble, to wander.
Stroll, n. is in common use.

Dismay'd, unfed, unhous'd,
The widow and the orphan stroll around
The desert wide; with oft retorted eye
They view the gaping walls, and poor remains
Of mansions once their own.-J. Philips. Blenheim.
'Tis she who nightly strolls with sauntering pace,
No stubborn stays her yielding shape embrace.

Gag. Trivia, b. iii.
When stroulers durst presume to pick your purse,
We humbly thought our broken troop not worse.

Dryden. Prol. to the University of Oxford.

No parish, if they once adopt
The spurious brats by strollers dropt,
Leave them, when grown up lusty fellows,
To the wide world, that is, the gailows.

Prior. Epistle to Fleetwood Shephard, Esq Your fathers (men of sense, and honest bowlers) Disdain'd the mummery of foreign strollers.

Fenton. Prol. to Southerne's Spartan Dame. STROND, i. e. the Strand; litus arandum, the strond for to manure, (Surrey.)

This lady rometh by the cliffe to play
With her meine, endlong the strond.

Chaucer. Hipsiphile & Medea. So walkyng to the strondward we bargeynyd by the wey That I shuld have the marchandise that Beryn wyth hym brought. Id. The Merchantes Second Tale.

A. S. Strang; Dut. Strenghe; Ger. Streng; Sw. Streng. See STRENGTH, and STRING. Strong is the past part. of the verb to string. A strong man is, a man well strung."

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Firm, confirmed, fortified; robust, able, potent or powerful, efficacious, vigorous, forceful; mighty, violent.

I waishe ghou in watir into penaunce, but he that schal come after me is strenger than i whos schoon y am not worthi to bere.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 3.

Whanne a strong armed man kepith his hous, alle thingis that he weldith ben in pees. But if a stronger thanne he come upon him and ouercome him, he schal take awey all his armure in which he tristide.-Id. Luk, c. 11.

When a strange man armed watcheth his house: that he possesseth is in peace. But when a stronger then he cometh po him, and ouercommeth hym; he taketh from him his harnes wherein he trusted.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Ye sterve he shal, and that in lesse while,
Than thou wolt gon a pas not but a mile :
This poison is so strong and violent.

Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,799.

"And take this for a general reule, that every conseil that is affermed so strongly, that it may not be chaunged for no condition that may betide, I say that thilke conseil is wicked."-Id. The Tale of Melibeus.

And every day still adding to their force,
As on their host tow'rds Glocester they guide,
When Edward finding their intended course,
Again for battle strongly did provide.

Drayton. The Miseries of Queen Margaret.
Thes. Your valiant and strong-hearted enemies
Your royal German foes, that this day come
To blow that nearness out, that flames between ye;
Lay by your anger for an hour.

Beaum. & Fletch. Two Noble Kinsmen, Act v. sc. 1. He ceas'd, and next him Moloc, scepter'd king Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heav'n; now fiercer by despair.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii.

Th' event is fear'd; should we again provoke
Our stronger, some worse way his wrath may find
To our destruction: if there be in hell
Fear to be worse destroy'd.

Id. Ib.

Turn'd to the right, his sword the hero drew,
And at one blow the bold aggressor slew.
He joints the neck; and with a stroke so strong,
The helm flies off; and bears the head along.
Dryden. Virgil. Æneis, b. x.

As when the lordly lion seeks his food

Where grazing heifers range the lonely wood,
He leaps amidst them with a furious bound,
Bends their strong necks, and tears them to the ground.
Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. v.

Thus speaking, on the circling wall he strung
A ship's tough cable, from a column hung;
Near the high top he strain'd it strongly round,
Whence no contending foot could reach the ground.
Id. Ib. Odyssey, b. xxii.
And he that bears th' artillery of Jove,
The strong pounc'd eagle.-Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. xv.

For the two last days we had early in the morning a light breeze from the shore, which was strongly impregnated with the fragrance of the trees, shrubs, and herbage that covered it, the smell being something like that of gum benjamin. Cook. First Voyage, b. iii. c. 7. It is a strongish post, narrow street, commanded from within and tenable walls.-Byron. Diary. Jan. 8, 1821.

The drake, stroier of his owne kinde.

Chaucer. The Assemblie of Fowles. And when her store was stroyed with the floode, Then welaway for she vndone was clene.

Wyat. Of the meane and sure Estate.

To slo doun & to stroge neuer wild thei stint,
Thei left for dede no noye, ne for no wounde no dynt.
R. Brunne, p. 183.
Id. p. 340.

He has mad his vowe, to stroie the kyng Robyn.

In covenaunt that the kepe holy churche and me selve For wastours and wyckede men. that thus worlde struen. Piers Plouhman, p. 129. STRUCTURE. Fr. Structure; It. Struttura; Lat. Structura, from structum, past part. of struere, to build. See CONSTRUCT.

A fabric, frame or building; a putting, setting or fixing together.

Pallas her fauours varied; and addrest
An idoll, that Iphthima did present
In structure of her euery lineament;
Great-sould Icarius daughter.

Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. iv.

But this is yet a weak piece of structure, because the supporters are subject to much impulsion, especially if the line be long.-Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 31.

[Seneca] describes his baths to have been of so mean a structure, that now, says he, the basest of the people would despise them, and cry out, "Poor Scipio understood not how to live."-Cowley. Ess. On Solitude.

STRUGGLE, v.
STRUGGLE, n.
STRUGGLER.

STRUGGLING, n. tendere,

Perhaps a dim. from the verb to streak or stretch-(A. S. Strecc-an), tendere, intendere, con

To contend, to contest; to combat with, to make exertions, efforts or endeavours; to labour intently.

Up peril of my soule, I shal nat lien,

As me was taught to helpen with your eyen,
Was nothing better for to make you see,
Than strogle with a man upon the tree:
God wot, I did it in ful good entent.

Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 10,245.
Euen so is the spirite oppressed and ouer laden of the
flesh through custome, that she struggeleth and striueth to
get vp and to breake lowse in vayne.
Tyndall. Workes, p. 186.
The Jewes were hard-hearted and malicious strugglers
against the trueth.
Martin. Marriage of Priests, (1550,) b. i.
Whyles thus they strugled in that ydle wave,
And strove in vaine, the one himselfe to drowne,
The other both from drowning for to save;
Lo! to that shore one in an auncient gowne,
Whose hoary locks great gravitie did crowne,
Holding in hand a goodly arming sword,
By fortune came, ledd with the troublous sowne.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7.
Nor. How nature and his honor struggle in him!
A sweet, clear, noble gentleman.
Beaum. & Fletch. The Knight of Malta, Act ii. sc. 5.
But if they once turne head,
And sally on us from their fleet, when in so deepe a dike
We shall lye struggling; not a man of all the hoast is like
To live, and carry backe the newes.
Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xii.
From whence, if I should pray; or vse command
To be enlarg'd; they should with much more band
Containe my struglings.-Id. Ib. Odyssey, b. xii.
And we, as such, should now contribute
Our utmost strugglings to prohibit.-Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 2.
They are only the uneasy struggles of a man fast bound
and fettered.-Waterland. Works, vol. iv. p. 54.

Often she cast a kind admiring glance
On the bold struggler for delight.

Buckinghamshire. Ode on Brutus. At the end of half a minute after that time, the strug glings of the bird seemed finished.

Boyle Works, vol. iii. p. 368.

But when danger is understood, and pain felt, and nature groans under it, then with patience and submission to undergo it, and to conquer all the strugglings of nature against it, that is the duty and excellency of a Christian. Stillingfleet, vol. i. Ser. 6.

We are all embarked in one bottom, and have our mutual dangers to struggle with.-Gilpin, vol. i. Ser. 9.

They live in a continual strife between conscience, and indulgence. There is something like religion here, it occasions a struggle.-Id. Hints for Sermons, vol. i. § 4.

Crimes lead to greater crimes, and link so strait,
What first was accident, at last is fate:
Guilt's hapless servant sinks into a slave;
And virtue's last sad strugglings cannot save.

Mallet. Prologue to Thomson's Agamemnon. STRUMOUS. Fr. Strumosité; Lat. Strufrom struma, a swelling of the glands.

mosus,

STRUMPET, n. Į Dut. Stront-pot, lasanum, }(Skinner.) Applied to STRUMPET, U.

A common, filthy, harlot or prostitute; one profligate or debauched.

And seide to the Jewes That seeth hym synneles. cesse nat ich hote To stryke with stoon othwith staf. this strompett to dethe. Piers Plouhman, p. 231.

Prouerbes of Salomon openly teacheth, how somtime an innocent walkid by the waye in blindenesse of a derke night, whome mette a woman (if it be lefely to saye) as a strumpete araied redily purueied in turning of thoughtes with veine ianglinges.-Chaucer. Testament of Loue, b. ii.

Who (quoth she) hath suffered approchen to this sicke manne these common strompettes.-Id. Boecius, b. i. Pref. And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted.

Shakespeare, Son. 66.

For if we two be one, and thou play false,

I doe digest the poison of thy flesh,

Being strumpeted by thy contagion:
Keepe then faire league and truce with thy true bed.
Id. The Comedie of Errors, Act ii. sc. 2.
Lyg. How has my age deserv'd so ill of you, that you can
pick no strumpets i' th' land, but out of my breed?
Beaum. & Fletch. A King, and no King, Act v.
His repose

Would bring no sleepe yet; studying the ill
He wisht the wooers; who came by him still
With all their wenches; laughing, wantoning
In mutuall lightnesse, which his heart did sting;
Contending two wayes; if (all patience fled)
He should rush vp, and strike those strumpets dead.
Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. xx.

How like a yonger or a prodigall
The skarfed barke puts from her natiue bay,
Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet winde.

Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act ii. sc. 6.

The prince the damzell by her habit knew,
See, see, this mankinde strumpet, see (he cride)
This shameless whore, for thee fit weapons were
Thy neeld and spindle, not a sword and speare.

Fairefax. Godfrey of Bovlogne, b. xx. s. 95.

At length, when friendly darkness is expir'd,
And every strumpet from her cell retir'd,
She lags behind, and, lingering at the gate,
With a repenting sigh submits to fate.

Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 6.
There is no peace left for a ravish'd wife
Widow'd by lawless marriage; to all memory,
Penthea's, poor Penthea's name is strumpeted.
Ford. The Broken Heart, Act iv. sc. 2.

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