striature

[Lat. striatura.] Disposition of str iæ; striation. "Parts of tuberous hæmat itæ show several varieties in the crust, striature , and texture of the body." - Woodward . *strich, s . [Lat. strix =a screech-owl.] A bird of bad omen. "The leather-winged bat, day's enemy, The rueful strich , still waiting on the bier" Spenser: F. Q., II. xii. 36. strick, s . [STRIKE, S. ] A handful or bunch of hackled and sorted flax, ready for conversion into slivers by the drawing-machine. A cwt. of flax makes from 300 to 400 stricks. strick-en, pa . par . & a. [STRIKE.] *A. As pa. par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : *I. Lit .: Struck, smitten. "That shall I shew, a ure as hound The stricken deer doth challenge by the bleeding wound." Spenser: F. Q., II. i. 9. IMG:content-0415.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Carp . & Mason .: A pattern or templet. 3. Cloth- shearing : A straight-edge fed with emery and employed to grind the edges of a series of knives arranged spirally on a cylinder. 4. Flax: A strike or sword used in dre ing flax. 5. Founding: (1) A semi-circular piece of wood used in smoothing molds of loam to form cores for curved and crooked pipes; also for spreading upon the cores a thickne of loam answering to the required thick. ne of the pipe. (2) A straight-edge of wood with which to remove superfluous sand from a flask after ramming up. 6. A straight-edge to strike grain to a level with the upper edge of the measure; a strike. stric-kler, strick-le , subst. [STRICKLE.] A strickle or strike. ( Prov.) strict, a . [Latin strict us , pa. par. of stringo =to draw tight, to compre . From the same root come strain, strait, stre , .] I. Ordinary Language : *1. Drawn tight, strained, tight, close. "She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis, 874. *2. Tense; not laxed or relaxed. "The fatal noose performed its office, and with most strict ligature squeezed the blood into his face." Arbuthnot. 3. Exact, accurate, rigorous, careful, severe, punctilious, stringent. "This strict and most observant watch." Shakesp.: Hamlet , i. 1. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia Strict Observance 4. Regulated or acting by exact rules; exact, rigorous, severe. "Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, iv. 1. 5. Positive or definite as to terms; prečise, stringent. "Such strict and severe covenants." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt. I., v. 4. 6. Rigidly or exactly 'interpreted; limited; not lax or loose; free from latitude; as, a strict definition, a strict interpretation. +II. Bot .: Upright, straight. Strict Observance, s . Church Hist .: The name given to a subdivision of the Observantine branch of the Francis can Order. The first house of Strict Observance appears to have been founded by a Spanish Francis can, John de Puebla, on the Sierra Morena in 1489. The friars soon became a separate congregation, and spread to Italy, where they were known as the Reformed, early in the sixteenth century. They established themselves at Nevers in France in 1597, and were there called Recollects. The Latin holy places at Jerusalem are under the charge of the Francis cans of the Strict Observance. "Certain orders of friars practice this austerity, which was first introduced among the Friars Minor of the Strict Observance by the Ble ed John of Guadaloupe, about the year 1500."- Addis & Arnold : Cath . Dict ., p. 265.