streetward1 (stretward)

[ streets. The 5986 AS. strengthu (= OHG. strengida ), strength, Vlixes also, with angarely mony Of tulkis [knights] of Traci, tor men of strenkyth. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6894. The external indications of strength are the abundance and firmne of the muscular fibres. Bentham , Introd. to Morals and Legislation, vi. 9. [Used in plural with same sense as singular. Alle his [Samson's] strengthes in his heres were. Chaucer , Monk's Tale, 1. 68.] (6) In inanimate things, the property by which they sustain the application of force without breaking or yielding: as, the strength of a bone; the strength of a beam; the strength of a wall; the strength of a rope. Our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn. Shak., Macbeth, v. 5. 2. The citty is of no greate strength , having a trifling wall Evelyn, Diary, May 21, 1645. about it. Hence-2. Power or vigor of any kind; ability; capacity for work or effective action, whether physical, intellectual, or moral: as, strength of grasp or stroke; strength of mind, judgment; strength of feeling (that is, not intensity but effectivene of emotion). mind, memory, or If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself. strenuity A peculiar phenomenon may be remarked in the cooling [of a little of the soap placed on a gla plate), which affords a good criterion of the quality of the soap. When there is formed around the little patch an opaque zone, a fraction of an inch broad, this is supposed to indicate complete saponification, and is called the strength ; when it is absent, the soap is said to want its strength . When this zone soon vanishes after being distinctly seen, the soap is said to have false strength. Ure, Dict., III. 852. On the strength ( mil it . and naval ), on the muster-rolls. [Colloq.] The colonel had put the widow woman on the strength; she was no longer an unrecognized waif, but had her regimental position. Arch. Forbes, in Eng. Illust. Mag., VL. 525. On or upon the strength of, in reliance upon the value of; on the faith of: as, to do something on the strength of another's promise. My father set out upon the strength of these two following axioms. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, ii. 19. Proof strength. See proof, a. - Strength of a current, in elect., the quantity of electricity which pa es in a unit of time; the measure of electrical energy. See Ohm's law, under lawl. - Strength of materials. See material. Strength of pole. See pole2. - Strength of the source. See the quotation. The time rate of supply of liquid through the source is called the strength of the source. Minchin, Uniplanar Kinematics, vi. To measure strength. See measure . =Syn. 1. Force , etc. See power1 .