strigmentt (strig ment)

[L. strig mentum, that which is scraped off, a scraping, Bra a vol us and many other, beside the strigments and sudorous adhesions from men's hands, acknowledge that nothing proceed eth from gold in the usual decoction there Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 5. of. Strigopidæ (str i-gop'i-dē), n. pl. [NL. (Bonaparte, 1849), 5991 and the birds have not the power of flight. See cut under owl -parrot. strigose (str i'gōs), a. [ strigosus , striga , q. v.] 1. In bot ., rough with strige; beset with sharp-pointed and appre ed straight and stiff hairs or bristles: as, a strigose leaf or stem.-2. In entom ., streaked, or finely fluted; having fine, close parallel ridges or points, like the surface of a file. Also strigate . strigous (str i'gus), a. [ strigosus : see strigose .] Same as strigose . strike (strik), v .; pret. struck , pp. struck , stricken (obs. or dial. strucken ), ppr. striking . [ striken , stryken (pret. str ok , stroke , strake , pp. striken, stricken ), strican (pret. strāc , pp. stricen), go, proceed, advance swiftly and smoothly, OFries. strika = D. strijken = MLG. striken , LG. striken = OHG. strihhan (strong), streichon (weak), MHG. strichen, streichen, G. streichen , smooth, rub, stroke, spread, strike; cf. Icel. strjūka , strykja = Sw. stryka = Dan. stryge , stroke, rub, wipe, Goth. striks , a stroke, tittle, akin to L. string ere , draw tight, graze, stroke, etc. (see stringent , strain1 , strict ). Cf. streak1, streak2 , strakel , strake2 , stroke , etc. The senses of strike are much involved, the orig. sense 'go,' 'go along, being commonly lost from view, or retained only as a ociated with the sense 'hit.'] I. in trans. 1. To go; proceed; advance; in modern use, especially, to go or move sud- denly, or with a sudden turn. A mous that moc he good couthe, as me thougte, Stroke forth sternly, and stode biforn hem alle. Piers Plowman (B), Prol., 1. 183. To avoyd them, we struck out of the way, and cro ed the pregnant champian to the foot of the mountaines. Sandys , Travailes, p. 158. By God's mercy they recovered themselves, and, having the flood with them, struck into the harbour. N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 47. Whether the poet followed the romancer or the chronicler in his conception of a dramatic character, he at the first step struck into that undeviating track of our humanity amid the accidents of its position. I. D'Israeli, Amen. of Lit., II. 239. A dispatch from Newfoundland says that the caplin have struck in. This means that the cod, the most famous of all commercial fish, has arrived on the banks. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVIII. 352. 2t. To flow; glide; run. Ase strem that striketh stille. Morris and Skeat's Specimens Early Eng ., ii. 48. 3. To pa with sudden quickne and effect; dart; pierce. Till a dart strike through his liver. Prov. vii. 23. How the bright and bli ful Reformation (by Divine Power) strook through the black and settled Night of Ignorance and Anti-christian Tyranny. Milton, Reformation in Eng., i. 4. To come suddenly or unexpectedly. We had struck upon a well-beaten track on entering the hills. B. Taylor , Northern Travel, p. 117. 5. To run or extend in any particular direction, especially with reference to the points of the compa : a word used chiefly by geologists in speaking of the strata, or of stratified ma es, but also by miners in indicating the position of the lode or vein. The latter, however, generally use run in preference to strike .-6. To lower a sail, a flag, or colors in token of respect; hence, to surrender, as to a superior or an enemy; yield. The enemy still came on with greater fury, and hoped by his number of men to carry the prize; till at last the English man, finding himself sink apace, and ready to perish, struck . Steele , Spectator, No. 350. Swift . The interest of our kingdom is ready to strike to that of your poorest fishing towns. 7. To touch; glance; graze; impinge by appulse. Let us consider the red and white colours in porphyry: hinder light from striking on it, and its colours vanish. Locke, Human Understanding, II. viii. 19. 8. To run aground or ashore; run upon a bank, rock, or other obstacle; strand: as, the ship struck at midnight.-9. To inflict a blow, stroke, or thrust; attack: as, to strike in the dark. We have drawn our swords of God's word, and stricken at the roots of all evil to have them cut down. Latimer , Sermons, p. 249. He strake at him, and mi ed him, d'ye mark? Chapman , Gentleman Usher, v. 1. A Surprize in War is like an Apoplexy in the Body, which strikes without giving Warning for Defence. Baker , Chronicles, p. 70. By their designing leaders taught To strike at power which for themselves they sought. Dryden, Astræa Redux, 1. 32. 10. To hit; beat; tap: as, the hammer strikes on the bell of a clock. strike They plunge their Oars all at one instant into the Water, keeping exact time with each other: and that they may the better do this, there is one that strikes on a small Gong, or a wooden Instrument, before every stroke of the Oar. Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 74. 11. To sound by percu ion, with or as with blows; be struck: as, the clock strikes. One whose Tongue is strung vp like a Clocke till the time, and then strikes , and sayes much when hee talkes little. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Stayed Man. A deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Byron, Childe Harold, iii. 21. 12. To use one's weapons; deal blows; fight: as, to strike for one's country. God's arm strike with us! 'tis a fearful odds. Shak ., Hen. V., iv. 3. 5. Is not he the same God still? Is his hand shortned that he cannot strike, or doth his heart fail that he dare not punish? Stilling fleet, Sermons, I. x. 13. To pre a claim or demand by coercive or threatening action of some kind; in common usage, to quit work along with others, in order to compel an employer to accede to some demand, as for increase of pay, or to protest against something, as a reduction of wages: as, to strike for higher pay or shorter hours of work.-14. To steal, as by pocket-picking. [Slang.]-15t. To give the last plowing before the seed is sown. Davies. To harrow the ridges ere ever ye strike Is one piece of husbandry Suffolk doth like. Tu er , September's Husbandry, st. 9. 16. To take root, as a slip of a plant. The young tops strike freely if they are taken off about three inches long, and inserted singly in some sandy soil in small pots. The Field, March 12, 1887. (Encyc. Dict .) 17. To fasten to stones, shells, etc., as young oysters; become fixed or set. -18t. To move with friction; grate; creak. The closet door striked as it uses to do, both at her coming in and going out. Aubrey, Misc., p. 83. 19. In the United States army, to perform menial services for an officer; act as an officer's servant: generally said of an enlisted man detailed for that duty.-20. To become saturated with salt, as fish in the proce of pickling or curing.-21. To run; change or fade, as colors of goods in washing or cleaning. Workshop Receipts, 1st ser., p. 321. - To be struck or stricken in years, to be far along in years; to be of an advanced age. And they had no child,... and they both were well stricken in years. Luke i. 7. The king Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen Well struck in years. Shak., Rich. III., i. 1. 92. To strike amain. See amain1. To strike at, to make or aim a blow at; attempt to strike; attack: as, to strike at one's rival. To strike back. (a) To return blow for blow. (b) To refuse to lead, as fish when, instead of following close along the leader and pa ing into the bowl of the weir, they retreat from the net, and with a sweep double the whole weir.- To strike for, to start suddenly for; make for: as, he struck for home. [Colloq.] - To strike home, to give a decisive and effective blow or thrust. Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. Shak., M. for M., i. 3. 41. To strike in. ( a ) To make a vigorous move, effort, or ad IMG:content-2274.png:[blocks in formation] It [the water of the Dead Sea] bore me up in such a manner that when I struck in swimming, my legs were above the water, and I found it difficult to recover my feet. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 36. (d) To fall in; conform; join or unite. I always feared ye event of ye Amsterdam ers striking in with us. Cushman, quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 57. He struck in very zealously with the Presbyterians, went to their meetings, and was very liberal in his abuses, not only of the Archbishop, but of the whole order. Gibson, in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 227. (e) To arrive; come in; make for the shore: said of fish. Those who have been on the Newfoundland coast when the caplin strikes in will not forget the excitement that ensued. Sci . Amer ., N. S., LVIII. 352. To strike into. (a) To enter upon, as by some sudden act or motion; break into: as, to strike into a run. It struck on a sudden into such reputation that it scorns any longer to sculk, but owns itself publickly. Government of the Tongue . (b) To turn into quickly or abruptly; betake one's self to in haste. It began raining, and I struck into Mrs. Vanhomrigh's, and dined. Swift . To strike out. (a) In boxing , to deliver a blow from the shoulder. (b) To direct one's course, as in swimming: as, strike to strike out for the shore. (c) To make a sudden move or excursion: as, to strike out into an irregular course of life. I concluded to move on and strike out to the south and southwest into Mi ouri. The Century, XLI. 107. (d) In base - ball, to be put out because of failure to strike the ball after a certain number of trials: said of the batter. To strike up. (a) To begin to play or sing. If the Musicke overcome not my melancholly, I shall quarrel; and if they sodainly do not strike up , I shall presently strike thee downe. Heywood , Woman Killed with Kindne , i. 1. He got a little excited, as you may have seen a canary sometimes when another strikes up. O. W. Holmes, Autocrat, ix. (b) To make acquaintance; become a ociated: with with . [Colloq.] He spurr'd to London, and left a you sand curses behind him. Here he struck up with sharpers, scourers, and Alsatians. Gentleman Instructed , p. 491. (Davies, under Alsatian.) II. trans. 11. To pa the hand over lightly; stroke: as, to strike the beard or hair. I stryke ones heed, as we do a chyldes whan he do the well. Je applanie. My father sayeth I am a good sonne; he dyd stryke my heed by cause I had conned my Palsgrave . le on without the booke. IMG:content-2275.png:[blocks in formation] Four straiked measures or firlots contains in just proportion four heaped firlots. Report Scotch Commi ioners, 1618. All grain to be measured stricked , without heaps, and without pre ing or shaking down. Act Irish Parliament , 1695. 41. To balance the accounts in. And the said journall, with two other bookes, to lye upon the greencloth dayly, to the intent the accomptants, and other particular clerkes, may take out the solutions entred into said bookes, whereby they may strike their lydgers, and soe to bring in their accompts incontinently upon the same. Ordinances and Regulations , p. 229. ( Hall i well .) 5. To lower or dip; let, take, or haul down: as, to strike the topmasts; to strike a flag, as in token of surrender or salute; to strike or lower anything below decks. Fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, [they] strake sail, and so were driven. Acts xxvii. 17. Now, strike your sailes, yee jolly Mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode. Spenser, F. Q., I. xii. 42. The Maltese commanding ours to strike their flag for the great masters of Malta, and ours bidding them strike for the King of England. Court and Times of Charles I. , I. 409. 6. To take down or apart; pack up and remove; fold: as, to strike a tent; to strike a scene on the stage of a theater. The king, who now found himself without an enemy in these parts, struck his tents, and returned to Gaza in Da Bruce , Source of the Nile, II. 28. waro. Yes, on the first bad weather you'll give orders to strike your tents. Sheridan (?), The Camp, ii. 3. 5992 One meets (on paper only) with the "eighteen-carat desperado," who has " struck it rich" on the Pikes or in the ranches. Corn hill Mag., N. S., No. 64, p. 369. We resumed our march the following day, but soon struck snow that materially impeded our progre . Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 400. "I didn't strike the stairs at first," whispered the butcher, "and I went too far along that upper hall; but when I came against a door that was partly open I knew I was wrong, and turned back." F. R. Stock ton , Merry Chanter, xii. 11. To enter the mind of, as an idea; occur to. It appeared never to have struck traveller or tourist that there was anything in Albania except snipes. R. Curzon , Monast. in the Levant, p. 204. It struck me that. it might be worth while to study him. D. Christie Murray , Weaker Ve el, iv. 12. To impre strongly: as, the spectacle struck him as a solemn one. It [the temple of Baalbec] strikes the Mind with an Air of Greatne beyond any thing that I ever saw before, and is an eminent proof of the Magnificence of the ancient Architecture. Maundrell , Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 137. I have been struck , also, with the superiority of many of the old sepulchral inscriptions. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 215. 13. To appear to: as, how does it strike you? Now, Mrs. Dangle, didn't you say it struck you in the same light? Sheridan, The Critic, i. 1. When earth breaks up and Heaven expands, How will the change strike me and you, In the house not made with hands? Browning, By the Fireside. strike 24. To bring suddenly and completely into some specified state, by or as by a swift, sharp blow or stroke: as, to strike one dumb. S. Paule was himselfe sore against Christ, til Christ gaue him a great fal, and threw him to the ground, and strake him starke blind. Sir T. More , Cumfort against Tribulation (1573), fol. 11. Oh, hard news! it frets all my blood, And strikes me stiffe with hortour and amazement. Heywood , Fair Maid of the West (Works, ed. 1874, II. 398). In view of the amazed town and camp, He strake him dead, and brought Peralta off. Fletcher (and another), Love's Cure, i. 1. 25. To pierce; stab. Yet when the tother answered him that there was in euery mans mouth spoke of him much shame, it so strake him to ye heart that w' in fewe daies after he withered & consumed away. Sir T. More , Rich. III. (Works, p. 61 ) For I hit him not in vaine as Artagerses did, but full in the forehead hard by the eye, and strake him through and through his head againe, and so overthrew him, of which blow he died. North , tr. of Plutarch, p. 792. 26. To produce with sudden force; effect suddenly and forcibly; cause to enter. It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp Should strike such terror to his enemies. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 3. 24. Bring out the lady: she can quell this mutiny, And with her powerful looks strike awe into them. Fletcher (and another ), False One, iv. 2 Waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. Milton, Nativity, L. 52. tude. No sooner had the horses struck a canter than Gibbie's began to play alternately against the Scott, Old Mortality, iii. horse's flanks. 15. To give a blow to; smite; hit; collide with; below. to mint; coin: as, to strike coin at the mint. The princes who struck these medals, says Eugenius, seem to have designed them rather as an ostentation of their wealth than of their virtues. Add is on, Ancient Medals, iii. Here they are, thirty good Harry groats as ever were Scott , Abbot, vil The servants did strike him with the palms of their hands. Mark xiv. 65. He at Philippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck The lean and wrinkled Ca ius. Shak ., A. and C., iii. 11. 36. 28. To cause to enter or penetrate; thrust: as, a tree strikes its roots deep. Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices, Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary. 16. To attack; a ail; set upon. With stones men shulde hir stryke , and stone hir to deth. Piers Plowman (B), xii. 77. The red pestilence strike all trades in Rome! Shak., Cor., iv. 1. 13. Death struck them in those Shapes again, As once he did when they were Men. Prior, Turtle and Sparrow. 17. To a ail or overcome, as with some occult influence, agency, or power; smite; shock; blast. I will go study mischief, And put a look on, arm'd with all my cunnings, Shall meet him like a basilisk, and strike him. Fletcher (and another ), False One, iv. 2. About Maid stone in Kent, a certain Monster was found strucken with the Lightning, which Monster had a Head like an A . Baker , Chronicles, p. 75. Even brave men have been struck with this involuntary trembling upon going into battle for the first time, the series of sensations commencing with the boom of the yet distant cannon. J. M. Car no chan , Operative Surgery, p. 109. 18. To knock; dash: as, to strike one's foot 7. To lade into a cooler, as cane-juice in sugar against a stone. making.-8t. To dab; rub; smear; anoint. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts. Ex. xii. 7. The mother said nothing to this, but gave nurse a certain ointment, with directions that she should strike the child's eyes with it. Keightley's Fairy Mythology (Bohn's Ant. Lib.), p. 302. 9. To efface with a stroke of a pen; erase; remove from a record as being rejected, erroneous, or obsolete: with away , out , off , etc.: as, to strike out an item in an account. Madam, the wonted mercy of the king, That overtakes your faults, has met with this, And struck it out . Beau , and Fl . , King and No King, ii. 1. That thou didst love her, strikes some scores away From the great compt. Shak., All's Well, v. 3. 56. Vernon is struck off the list of admirals. Walpole , Letters, II. 18. Halifax was informed that his services were no longer needed, and his name was struck out of the Council Book. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., vi. 10. To come upon suddenly or unexpectedly; hit upon; light upon; find; discover: as, to strike oil; to strike ore; to strike the right path. [Chiefly colloq.] IMG:content-2276.png:[blocks in formation] To banish him that struck more blows for Rome Than thou hast spoken words? Shak ., Cor., iv. 2. 19. Not riot, but valour, not fancy, but policy, must strike the stroke . G. Harvey, Four Letters. Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow . Byron, Childe Harold, ii. 76. 20. To produce by blows or strokes: as, to strike fire; to strike a light. War is a Fire struck in the Devil's tinder-box. Howell, Letters, ii. 43. 21. To cause to ignite by friction: as, to strike a match.-22. To tap; broach; draw liquor from: as, to strike a cask. IMG:content-2277.png:[blocks in formation] ment; begin to sing or play, as a song or tune: often with up. Strike up the drums. Strike the Lyre upon an untry'd String. Shak., K. John, v. 2. 179. Congreve, Taking of Namure. When the college clock struck two, Hogg would rise, in spite of Shelley's entreaty or remonstrance, and retire for the night. E. Dowden , Shelley, L. 67. 30. To make; effect; conclude; ratify: as, to strike a bargain. [Compare the Latin fœdus ferire, to strike a treaty; also the phrase to strike hands.] The rest strike truce, and let loue seale firm leagues twixt Greece and Troy. Chapman, Iliad, iii. 98. A bargain was struck; a sixpence was broken; and all the arrangements were made for the voyage. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xvi. Be admonished, by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 195. 31. To cease, stop, quit, or knock off as a coercive measure: as, to strike work. I never heard of authors striking work, as the mechanics call it, until their masters the booksellers should increase their pay. Scott , in Lockhart's Life, xi. Don't yo think I can keep three people... on sixteen shillings a week? Dun yo think it 's for mysel' I'm striking work at this time? Mrs. Gaskell , North and South, xvii 32. To make a sudden and pre ing demand upon; especially, to make such a demand sue ce fully: as, to strike a friend for fifty dollars. [Colloq.]-33t. To match, as the stock and counter stock of a tally (see tally ); hence, to unite; join. I'll find a portion for her, if you strike Affectionate hearts, and joy to call you nephew. Shirley, The Brothers, i. 1. 341. To fight; fight out. They fight near to Auxerre the most bloody battle that ever was struk in France. Raleigh , Hist. World, Pref., p. xx. We, that should check And quench the raging fire in others' bloods, We strike the battle to destruction? Fletcher and Rowley , Maid in the Mill, iv. 2. 35. To draw (lines) on a surface or on the face of a piece of stuff, as by snapping or twanging a chalked string stretched tightly along it. ing-plane.-37. To harpoon or bomb (a whale). -38. In angling, to hook (a fish when it rises to the fly but fails to hook itself). It is accomplished by a quick dexterous turn or twist The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary strike of the wrist. -39. To put (fish) in a strike barrel.-40. In electroplating, to produce the beginning of a deposit of metal upon, as on a plate or other article of metal placed in the electroplating solution. The work is said to be struck as soon as a uniform film of deposited metal distinctly appears upon its surface.41. In color- making and dyeing, to affect (a coloring matter) so as to obtain the desired precipitation of color in the vat or on the fabric by the addition of the proper color-producing chemical. See color - striker. A simpler method of dyeing by means of bichromates is also given,. by which the logwood is struck of an intense black and fixed. O'Neill , Dyeing and Calico Printing, p. 86. 42. In electric lighting , to produce (the arc) by parting the carbons. - A struck battlet, a hard fought battle. Ten struck battles I suck'd these honour'd scars from, and all Roman. Fletcher, Bonduc a, i. 1. Strike me luck, strike me lucky, a familiar expre ion used in making a bargain, derived from the old custom of striking hands together in ratification of the bargain, the buyer leaving in the hand of the seller an earnest-penny. But if that's all you stand upon, Here, strike me luck , it shall be done. S. Butler, Hudibras, II. i. 540. Striking the flars. See fiar, 2.- Striking-up pre . See pre 1.- Struck jury. See jury. To strike a balance, to compare the summations on both sides of an account, in order to ascertain the amount due by either party to the other. To strike a center or centering, in arch. See centering2. - To strike a docket. See docket. - Το strike a lead. (a) In mining, to light on a lode or vein of metal. (b) To enter on any undertaking that proves succe ful. To strike all of a heap. See heap. - To strike an answer (or other pleading), to strike it out as improper or insufficient. [Local, U. S.] - To strike down. (a) To prostrate by a blow; fell. (b) In fisheries, to head up and stow away barrels of, as fish. - To strike fire. See fire. To strike from, to remove with or as with a blow or stroke: as, to strike a name from a list. Among the Arabians they that were taken in adultery had their heads stricken from their bodies. Homilies , Serm. against Adultery, p. 120. To strike hands. See hand . To strike off. (a) See def. 9. (b) (1) To cancel; deduct: as, to strike off the interest of a debt. (2) To separate or remove by a blow or stroke: as, to strike off what is superfluous or injurious. Ffrom thense we entred in to the gardeyn, and visited Petir Stroke of Malcus eere. the place wher our savyor was takyn and where Seynt Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 29. (3) To print: as, to strike off a you sand copies of a book. - To strike oil. See oil. - To strike out. (a) To pro duce by collision, as by blows or strokes: as, to strike out sparks with steel. My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Dryden, Hind and Panther, i. 75. (b) See def. 9. (c) To plan quickly or for an emergency; devise; invent; contrive: as, to strike out a new plan of finance. (d) In base - ball, to put out, as the pitcher does the batter when the latter is unable in a certain number of trials to hit the ball: as, he struck out three men in succe ion. To strike root, sail, soundings, tally. See the nouns. - To strike up. (a) To begin to play or sing: as, to strike up a tune. Strike up our drums, to find this danger out. (bt) To send up; give out. Shak., K. John, v. 2. 179. IMG:content-2279.png:[blocks in formation] (c) To enter upon by mutual agreement; begin to cultivate: as, to strike up an acquaintance with somebody. She [Mme. de Souza) charmed and delighted me, and we struck up an intimacy without further delay. Mme . D'Arblay , Diary, IV. 174.