strathspey (strath spa)

[So called from Strathspey in Scotland.] 1. A Scotch dance, invented early in the eighteenth century, re sembling the reel, but slower, and marked by numerous sudden jerks. While youths and maids the light strathspey So nimbly danced, with Highland glee! Scott , Glenfinlas. which is duple, moderately rapid, and abound 2. Music for such a dance or in its rhythm, ing in the rhythmic or metric figure called the Scotch snap or catch (which see, under Scotch1 ), or its converse. straticulate (str a-tik'u-lāt), a. [NL. * strati culatus, It was formerly the practice in England, as it still is on which purpose a bed of bark is made upon the bottom of the Continent, to tan by the proce of stratification , for the pit; upon this is laid the hide, then bark, then a hide, and so on until the pit is full. Encyc. Brit., XIV. 385. 2. Specifically, in geol., deposition in beds or strata; the mode of occurrence of those rocks which have been laid down or spread over the surface by water. The most important indication and result of stratification is that the rock separates more or le easily along the planes separating the beds or strata. Each stratification-plane marks a change in the character of the deposit, or a shorter or longer period during which deposition was suspended. Often one stratum is succeeded by another of quite different character, showing a change in the existing conditions. Sometimes, however, a rock is distinctly stratified, but each stratum separates easily into much thinner layers, closely resembling one another in petrographic character: this is generally called lamination,