strigovite

[After Lat. Strigovia =Striegau, Silesia, where found; suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min .: A dark-green coating of minute crystals on various minerals in the granite of Striegau, Silesia. Hardne , 1.0; specific gravity, 3144. Composition: A hydrous silicate of alumina, proto-and sesquioxides of iron. strike (past tense * strak , * strek , * stroak , * str ok , * stroke , * strook , * strooke , struck , pa. par. * stricken , * striken , * strook , * strooke , struck ), v. i. & t . [A. S. strican to go, to proceed (pa. t. strác , pa. par. stricen); cogn. with Dut. strijken to smooth, rub, spread, strike; Ger, streichen (pa. t. strich , pa. par. gest richen )=to stroke, rub, smooth, spread, strike; Icel. strjúka (pa. t. strauk , pa. par. strokinn )=to rub, to wipe, to strike; Sw.stryka to stroke, wipe, strike, rove; Dan. stryge =the same.] IMG:content-0421.png:[blocks in formation] strike 6. To use one's weapons; to fight; to be active in fighting or on any occasion of employing force. " Strike , fellows, strike ." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida , v. 8. 7. To hit, to collide, to dash, to clash; as, The hammer strikes against the bell of a clock. 8. To run, dash, or be driven upon the shore, a rock, or a bank; to be stranded. "After the ve el struck he saw water rushing into the engine-room."-London Daily Telegraph . 9. To sound by percu ion, with or as with blows; as, a clock strikes . 10. To cause something to give out a sound by percu ion. "She strikes upon the bell." Shakesp.: Macbeth , ii. 1. *11. To give out a sound, as of music; to begin to play; to strike up. "Let our drums strike." Shakesp.: Timon of Athens , v. 4. 12. To lower a sail, flag, or colors, in token of respect, or of surrender to an enemy; hence, to surrender, to yield. 13. To quit work in order to compel an increase or to prevent a reduction of wages, or to secure shorter hours of working, or other like cause. "About 1,000 hands struck at two of the principal works."-London Weekly Echo. 14. To take root; to grow, as a slip of a plant. [Β. 22.] "The young tops strike freely if they are taken off about three inches long, and inserted singly in some sandy soil in small pots." - Field , March 12, 1887. 15. To take a course or line; to turn or break off "Hounds striking to the right."- Field , March 12, 1887. *16. To blast or destroy life. "Then no planets strike." -Shakesp.: Hamlet, i. 1. 17. To steal money. ( Slang.) "The cutting a pocket or picking a purse is called striking."-Greene: Art of Coney catching. 18. To row, from the oar striking the water. "This rate of striking was kept up for the first mile."Field, March 5, 1887. IMG:content-0422.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors] 2. To give, inflict, or deal. "Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow." Byron: Childe Harold, ii. 76. 3. To dash, to hit, to knock. (With the instrument as object.) "He struck his hand upon his breast." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece, 1,842. 4. To produce by a blow or blows. "From the Dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. I., v. 6. 5. To cause to ignite by friction; as, to strike a match. 6. To stamp with a stroke; to impre ; hence, to mint, to coin. "Some very rare coins, struck of a pound weight, of IMG:content-0423.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0424.png:[blocks in formation] 22. To propagate by slips or cuttings; to insert cuttings in the soil. [A. 14.] "The way to strike them is to take off the points of any of the young shoots, and after trimming them in the ordinary way, they should be inserted in sandy soil."- Field , Oct. 3, 1885. 23. To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument all that is above the level of the top of the ve el in which the grain, ., is contained. [STRUCK MEASURE.] 24. To lower, as the yards of a ve el; to let down, as a sail or flag, in token of submi ion or surrender. 25. To take down; to lower and pack up; as, to strike tents. *26. To take forcibly or fraudulently. 27. To lade into a cooler, as the cane-juice in sugar-making. *28. To tap, as a cask, . IMG:content-0425.png:[blocks in formation] Book- keep .: To bring out the amount due on one or other of the sides of a debtor and creditor account; hence, in general, to ascertain on which side the preponderance lies. 2. To strike a center (or centering): Arch.: To remove the center or centering from an arch. 3. To strike a jury : Law: To constitute a special jury ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to reduce it to the number required by law. 4. To strike a rate: To a e and seal a rate formally. "Both bodies had struck rates."-London Daily Tele graph . 5. To strike at : To make or aim a blow at; to make an attack on; to attack. "A puny subject strikes This may be done at his own request, but it is the invariable penalty in cases of gro profe ional misconduct. ( Eng .) "There has been no misconduct shown of a character to justify striking the man's name of the rolls."- Pall Mall Gazette. 14. To strike oil: [OIL, 8., T.] 15. To strike out: (1) To produce by striking or collision; as, to strike out fire with a steel. (2) To blot out, to erase, to efface. (3) To plan or excogitate by a quick effort; to hit upon, to invent, to devise, to contrive; as, to strike out a new line. (4) In boxing, to deliver a blow straight from the shoulder. (5) To direct one's course in swimming; as, He struck out for land. (6) To wander; to make a sudden excursion. "When a great man strikes out into a sudden irregularity, he needs not question the respect of a retinue." Collier. IMG:content-0426.png:[blocks in formation] hand-lead, . 17. To strike up: (1) Transitive: (a) To drive up with a blow. (b) To begin to play or sing. "Strike up the drum."-Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. III., v. 3. (c) To enter into, to contract. "He is distre ed at the notion of Fanny having struck up an acquaintance with her next-door neighbors." London Daily Telegraph. (2) In trans.: To begin to play or sing. (Shakesp.: Winter's Tale , iv. 4.) 18. To strike work : To leave off work, especially in order to compel an increase or to prevent a reduction of wages, . [A. 13.] "The colliers have struck work against a proposed reduction in wages."-London Weekly Echo. *19. To strike hands: To shake hands. *20. Strike me luck , Strike me lucky : An expre ion formerly used by the lower orders when striking a bargain, and alluding to the custom of striking hands on ratification of the bargain, when the buyer left in the hand of the seller an earnest penny. (Now only used as a slang oath or ejaculation.) ( Eng .) "Come, strike me luck with earnest and draw the writings." Beaum. & Flet.: Scornful Lady, ii. strike, s. [STRIKE, v.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. An instrument, consisting of a strip of wood or metal, with a straight edge, used in leveling a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off what is above the level of the measure; hence the term struck measure as distinguished from heaped measure. *2. A bushel; four pecks. At thy great glory." -Shakesp.: Richard 11. , iv. 2. 6. To strike down: To prostrate by a blow or make a bind. (Prov. Eng .) blows; to fell. 7. To strike home: To give an effective blow. 8. To strike in: *(1) To go in suddenly; to disappear from the IMG:content-0427.png:[blocks in formation] "It struck nine as we were coming up the street."E. J. Worboise; Si ie , ch. xx. *12. To sound; to begin to sing or play. " Strike a free march to Troy." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida, v. 10. 13. To light upon; to hit or pitch upon; to fall in with. "We strike a trail, two or three days old, of some former hunters." - Burroughs: Pepacton, p. 291. *14. To touch lightly; to stroke; to pa lightly. " Strike his hand over the place."-2 Kings v. 11. 15. To prostrate, to blast, to confound, as by some superhuman power, or by the influence of the planets. " Struck Corioli like a planet." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , ii. 2. *16. To afflict, to punish, to chastise, to smite. "To punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity."-Proverbs xvii. 26. or the skin. (2) To interrupt, to interpose. *9. To strike into: (1) To break forth or out into; to be put into any state by some sudden act or motion. "It struck on a sudden into such reputation, that it scorns any longer to sculk, but owns itself publickly." Government of the Tongue. (2) To turn into quickly and abruptly; to betake one's self quickly into. 10. To strike in with : To conform to; to suit itself to; to agree with at once. "He immediately struck in with them; but described this march to the temple with so much horror, that he shivered every joint." -Add is on : Freeholder. 11. To strike it rich : To have or experience a sudden or unexpected good fortune. 12. To strike off : (1) To knock off or separate by a blow or any sud den action. (2) To erase, to strike out. "The Czar's ukase striking Prince Alexander of the Ru ian army list."-London Daily Telegraph. (3) To erase or deduct from an account; as, He struck off ten cents. (4) To impre , to print; as, A you sand copies were struck off . 13. To strike off the rolls, to strike one's name off the rolls : To erase the name of from a list or roll; spec if., of a solicitor or an attorney, to strike his chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; 5. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence. 6. The act of workmen, in any trade or branch of industry, when they leave their work with the object of compelling the masters to concede certain demands made by them, as an advance of wages, the withdrawal of a notice of reduction of wages, a shortening of the hours of work, the withdrawal of any obnoxious rule or regulation, or the like. "A general strike such as is suggested would be little short of a national calamity."-London Weekly Echo. For a long time the legal status of strikes has been, in this country, a matter of dispute, but of recent years the precedents set by Judges Jenkins, Wood, and Gro cup, of the United States Courts, seem to leave no doubt that strikers are within the reach of the laws against conspiracy *7. Full measure; hence, excellence of quality. ( Temple .) II. Technically : 1. Brick - making : A small piece of wood used to remove the superfluous clay from the mold. 2. Flax : A handful of flax that may be struck at once. 3. Founding: strike-a-light (2) The place where the vein crops out. 7. Sugar : The quantity of syrup, the contents of the last-pan, emptied at once into the coolers. (1) By the strike : By measure not heaped up; having what is above the level of the measure scraped off. *(2) Strike of day: Break or dawn of day. (3) Strike - or - silent: Horol.: A piece in a clock which sets the striking parts in or out of action. In the latter case, it pushes the warning piece clear of the pin in the hour-wheel, so that the latter, the prime agent in the striking, is allowed to revolve without setting in motion the parts which affect and regulate the striking. IMG:content-0428.png:[blocks in formation] striking-reed, s. 3888 Music: A percu ion reed in harmoniums. striking-up pre , s. A pre for striking up or raising sheet-metal in making dishes, pots, pans, cups, .