strick (strik)

[A var. of strike. Cf. strickle.] 1. A flat piece of wood for leveling grain in a measure; a strickle. A str it chill; a stricke : a long and round peece of wood like a rolling pinne (with us it is flat), wherewith measures are made even. Nomenclator. (Nares.) 2t. A bushel measure. IMG:content-2272.png:[blocks in formation] stricken (strik'n), p. a. [Pp. of strike, v.] 1. Struck; smitten: as, the stricken deer.-2. Advanced; far gone. I chaunced to espye this foresayde Peter talkynge with a certayne Straunger, a man well stricken in age. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), p. 29. lated, distinct str iæ. See the adjectives. - Dislocated stria. See dislocate. - Glacial str iæ, nearly parallel lines, varying in depth and coarsene , engraved on rock surfaces by the pa age of ice in which fragments of rock are embedded. See glaciation, 3. - Obliterate, scutellar, etc., str iæ. See the adjectives. - Striæ acusticæ, transverse white lines, more or le apparent, on the floor of the fourth ventricle, arising close to the middle line, and curving outward over the restiform bodies to the nucleus acce orius of the auditory nerve. Also called lineæ trans versæ, str iæ medulla res. - Striæ musculares, the transverse str iæ or stripes of striped muscular fiber. See cut under muscle 1. - Stria lateral is, a lateral stria on the surface of the corpus callosum, running lengthwise on either side of the str iæ longitudinales. - Stria longitudinal is, stria Lancisi. Same as nerve of Lancisi (which see, under nerve ). - Stria medullar is thalami, a band of white fibers running backward along the junction of the median and superior surfaces of the thalamus to end in the habenular ganglion.