strife, stryf, stryfe

[O. Fr. estrif, from Icel. stridh strife, contention; O. Sax. & O. Fries. strid; Dut. strijd; Dan. & Sw. strid; O. H. Ger. str it; Ger. streit.] ical. "Son and father weep with equal strife Who should weep most." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece , 1,791. 3. Contention in anger or discord; discord, contest, enmity, quarrel. ance. "Stay your deadly strufe a space." Spenser: F. Q., II. vi. 33. Spenser: F. Q., II. ii. 13. strike strig, 8. [STRIGA.] The footstalk of a flower, leaf, or bud. "The cones were seriously blackened by lice at the strig."-Field, Oct. 3, 1885. str i-gą ( pl. str i-ga), s. [Lat.] 1. Arch . The fluting of a column. 2. Bot . ( pl .): Little, upright, unequal, stiff hairs, welled at their bases. strig-ēş, s. pl. [Pl. of Mod. Lat. strix (q. v.).] Ornith.: Owls; a sub-order of Accipitres, universally distributed; equivalent to the Strigide of early authors, by some of whom they were called Accipitres nocturn i. Outer toe reversible; tibia twice as long as tarsus; body feathers without an after-shaft or acce ory plume; plumage soft and fluffy; a facial disk. Now generally divided into two families, Strigide and Bubonidæ.