strongish

[Eng. strong, a.; -ish.] Rather strong; somewhat strong. "These included a strongish contingent from Chas am." -Field, Feb. 26, 1887. strong-lý, adv. [Eng. strong, a.; -ly.] 18. Of a high degree; great, violent, earnest. "So strong a liking." -Shakesp.: As You Like It, i. 3. 19. Substantial, solid; not of easy digestion. " Strong meat be long eth to them that are of full age." - Power. Hebrews v. 12. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; 1. In a strong manner; with force, strength, or "Shooke so strongly."-Spenser, F. Q., I. xii. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. IMG:content-0440.png:[blocks in formation] str on-gyle, s. [STRONGYL US.] Any individual of the family Strongylidæ (q. v.) str on-gyl-1-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. strongyl(us); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ.] Zool .: A family of Nema to idea (q. v.). Body round, sometimes much elongated and filiform; mouth round, oval, or triangular, frequently very large, naked or armed with a horny pharyngeal armature; tail of male furnished with a bursa, usually emitting two spicules; in some the bursa is replaced by two divergent membranous lobes. Cobbold ( Entozoa , p. 83) enumerates the following genera: Strongyl us, Eustrongylus, Sclerostoma (= Syngamus), Dochmius, Prosthecocaster, Stenurus, Diaphanocephalus, Step han urus, Deletrocephalus, and Dicentrocephalus. [SCLEROSTOMA.] str on-gy-lūs, subst. [Gr. strongylos = round, rounded.] Zool.: The type-genus of Strongyl ide (q. v.), with the chief characters of the family. The number of species has been variously estimated by different authorities. Strongyl us bronchial is (the female an inch long, the male half that size) infests the bronchial glands in man. S. ( eustrongylus ) gigas is the largest known ento-parasite, the male measuring frem ten inches to a foot in length, the female attaining a length of over three feet; it attacks man and the lower animals. S. micrurus infests the calf, S. contort us the sheep, and S. armatus the horse. S. quad rident at us = Sclerostoma duodenale. [SCLEROSTOMA.]