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t. [Also straight; He [Cra us] set his ranks wide, casting his souldiers into a square battell. Yet afterward he changed his mind againe, and straighted the battell [formation] of his footmen, fashioning it like a brick, more long than broad, making a front and shewing their faces every way. North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 477. 2. To stretch; draw tight; tighten. This weighty Scott sall strait a rope, And hanged he shall be. Lang Johnny Moir (Child's Ballads, IV. 273). 3. To pre hard; put to difficulties; distre ; puzzle; perplex. If your la Interpretation should abuse, and call this Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited For a reply. Shak., W. T., iv. 4. 365. strait1t (strāt), adv. [ culties: as, to be straitened in money matters. So straitened was he at times by these warlike expenses that when his daughter married Boabdil, her bridal dre and jewels had to be borrowed. Irving, Granada, p. 68. IMG:content-2244.png:[blocks in formation] stramash By reason of the straitne of all the places. (b) Strictne ; rigor. 2 Mac. xii. 21. If his own life answer the straitne of his proceeding, it shall become him well. Shak., M. for M., iii. 2. 269. (c) Distre ; difficulty; pre ure from narrowne of circumstances or nece ity of any kind, particularly from poverty; want; scarcity. But he seyd ther shal no thyng hurt hym but youre streytne e of mony to hym. Paston Letters , II. 38. .. I received your loving letter, but straightne of time forbids me. Winthrop , in New England's Memorial, p. 191. He was never employed in public affairs,. the straitne of his circumstances keeping him close to his trade. Everett , Orations, II. 13. strait-waistcoat (strāt'wāst kōt), n. A garment for the body made of canvas or similar strong textile material, and so shaped as to lace up behind and fit closely. It has sleeves much longer than the arms, and usually sewed up at the ends, so that the hands cannot be used to do injury. The sleeves can also be tied together so as to restrain the wearer. It is used for the control or discipline of dangerous maniacs and other violent persons. Also called strait-jacket. strakel (strāk), v. i.; pret. and pp. straked , ppr. straking. [ straken ; a collateral form of streken , striken , a secondary form of striken , strican (pret. strāc ), go, pa swiftly over: see streak1 , strike , and stroke1 . Hence ult. strag gle.] To move; go; proceed. [Old and prov. Eng.] And with that worde right anoon They gan to strake forth. Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 1311. strake2 (strāk), n. [Sc. also straik ; strake ; in part a var. of streke , mod. E. streak , and in part of str ok , mod. E. stroke : see strakel , streak2 , stroke1 .] 1. A streak; a stripe. Summe lowe places therof by the water syde looke like redde cliffes with white strakes like wayes a cable length In the distribution of our time God seems to be strait handed, and gives it to us, not as nature gives us rivers, enough to drown us, but drop by drop. Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, ii. 1. strait-handedne t (str at'han" ded-nes), n. Niggardline ; parsimony. The Romish doctrine makes their strait - handedne so much more injurious as the cause of separation is more just. Bp. Hall , Cases of Conscience, iv. 3. IMG:content-2245.png:[blocks in formation] R. Eden, First Books on America (ed. Arber, p. 381). 21. A strip; a narrow tract. This Morrea is a plenty ous countrey, and almoste inuyrounde with the see, excepte one strake of a.vj. myle brode, whiche yeueth entre into Grecia, that ye Turke hat he. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 12. 31. A reef in a sail. Ffor ne han the i striked a strake and sterid hem the better, And abated a bonet or the blast come, They had be throwe ouere the borde backewarde ichonne. Richard the Redele , iv. 80. 4. A rut in a road. [Prov. Eng.] -5. A crack in a floor. [Prov. Eng.]-6. A breadth of plank or planking; specifically, a continuous line of planking or plates on a ve el's side, reaching See cut under clincher - built. - 7. The iron band used to bind the fellies of a wheel; the hoop or tire of a wheel.-8. A piece of board or metal used for scraping off the skimpings in hand from stem to stern. Also streak and shutter -in. in opinion. And doubt'st thou me? suspect you I will tell The hidden mysteries of your Paphian cell To the strait - lac'd Diana? Randolph , Complaint against Cupid. Why are you so strait - lac'd , sir knight, to cast a lady off so coy? Peele, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes. One so strait -laced In her temper, her taste, and her morals and waist. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 113. straitly (str at'li), adv. [Formerly also straight ly; If men look straitly to it, they will find that, unle their lives are domestic, those of the women will not be. Margaret Fuller , Woman in 19th Cent., p. 36. IMG:content-2246.png:[blocks in formation] bushel: more commonly strike (which see). [Obsolete or colloq.] Come, Ruose, Ruose! I sold fifty strake o' barley to-day in half this time. Farquhar , Recruiting Officer, iii. L 11. In hunting, a particular signal with a horn. As bookes report, of sir Tristram came all the good termes of venery and of hunting, and the sises and measures of blowing of an horne. And of him wee had. all the blasts that long to all manner of games. First to to the rechace, to thehun cot he lin eath the seeking any baher blaste and termes. Sir T. Mallory, Morte d'Arthur, II. cxxxvii. Binding-strake. See binding. strakest (strāk). An obsolete preterit of strike. strake4 (strāk), v. t. A dialectal (Scotch) form of stroke2. stralet (stral), n. See streal. str am (str am), v.; pret. and pp. strammed, ppr. stramming. [Cf. Dan. stramme = Sw. str am ma, be too tight, tighten, stretch, straiten, II. trans. To dash down violently; beat. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.]