stratus

[Latin=a strewing, a covering.] [STRATUM.] Meteor.: A very large and continuous horizontal sheet of cloud, looking, in many cases, as if it rested on the ground. It occurs chiefly at sunset and disappears at sunrise. It is common autumn, but rare in spring. non in strâucht, strâught ( ch, gh guttural), v. t. [STRAUGHT, pa. t.] To stretch out; to make straight. ( Scotch.) "Hand of woman, or of man either, will never straught him."- Scott : Bride of Lammer moor, ch. xxiii. *strâught ( gh guttural), pa . t . & pa . particip . [STRETCH, v .] str a-va-di-ŭm, s . [Malabar name Latinized.] Bot.: A genus of Barring ton i aceæ; calyx four parted, ovary two-celled, fruit four-sided, ribbed. The root of Stravadium racemosum is somewhat bitter, but not unpleasant to the taste. Hindu doctors consider it aperient, deobstruent, and cooling. The bark is supposed to po e qualities like those of Cinchona.