a warm. sea. like structure of its several parts; that is, either Love, that long since has to thy mighty porte be all over of a similar gravity, or have the more Per force subdu'd my poor captived heart , ponderous parts nearer to its basis. Bentley. And raging now therein with restless stewre, ST O'RYTELLER. n. s. [story and tell.] Dost tyrannize in every weaker part. Spenser. One who relates tales in conversation ; The giant struck so mainly merciless, That could have overthrown a stonny tower; an historian, in contempt. In such a satire all wouid seek a share, And, were not heav'nly grace that him did bless, And every fool will fancy he is there; He had been pouldered all as thin as flower, Old storytellers too must pine and die, But he was wary of that deadly stowre. Spenzen To see their antiquated wit laid by; Like her, who miss'd her name in a lampoon, STOUT.adj. (stout, Dutch ; stolz, proud, And griev'd to find herself decay'd so soon. German; stautan, Gothick, is to strike.] Dryden. 1. Strong ; lusty ; valiant. Company will be no longer pestered with dull, When I was young, dry, tedious storytellers. Swift. I do remember how my father said, • A stouter champion never handled sword. Sbaks. STOVE, n. s. (stoo, Islandick, a fire-place; Some captain of the land or fleet, prosoa, Saxon ; estuve, French; stove, Stout of his hands, but of a soldier's wit, Dutch.) Cries, I have sense to serve my turn, in store, 1. A hothouse; a place artificially made And he's a rascal who pretends to more. Dryd. 2. Brave; bold; intrepid. Fishermen who make holes in the ice, to dip The stout-hearted are spoiled. Psalms. up such fish with their nets as resort thither for He lost the character of a bold, stout, and mag. breathing, light on swallows congealed in clods nanimous man, which he had been long reputed of a slimy substance, and carrying them home to to be. Clarendon. their stoves, the warmth recovereth them to life 3. Obstinate; pertinacious; resolute ; and flight. Carew. proud. Staves, which could autumn of cold winter The lords all stand, make; To clear their cause, most resolutely stout. Dar Fountains in autumn to bring winter back. There virtue and stout honour passid the guard, Beaumont. Those only friends that could not be debarr'd. The heat which arises out of the lesser spira Bathurst. cles brings forth nitre and sulphur; some of 4. Strong ; firm. which it affixes to the tops and sides of the grote The stoutest vessel to the storm gave way, tos, which are usually so hot as to serve for na And suck'd through loosen'd planks the rushing tural stoves or sweating.vaults. Woodrvard. Dryden. The most proper place for unction is a stove. STOUT. N. S. A cant name for strong beer, Wiseman. Should but his muse descending drop 2. A place in which fire is made, and by A slice of bread and mutton chop, which heat is communicated. Or kindly, when his credit 's out, If the season prove exceeding piercing, in your Surprise him with a pint of stout ; grcat house kindle some charcoais; and when Exa'ted in his mighty mind, they have done smoaking, put them into a hole He flies and leaves the stars behind. Svift. sunk a little into the floor, about the middle of Stou’rly. adv. [from stout.] Lustilys it. This is the safest stove. Evelyn. boldly; obstinately. TO STOVE. v. a. (from the noun.] TO STOU'INESS. n. s. [from stout.] keep warm in a house artificially heated. For December, January, and the latter part 1. Strength ; valour. of November, take such things as are green all 2. Boldness : fortitude winter; orange trees, lemon trees, and myrtles, His bashfulness in youth was the very true if they be stoved; and sweet marjoram, warm set. sign of his virtue and stoutuess after. Áscban. Come all to ruin, ler Thy mother rather feel thy pride, than fear Thy dangerous stoutness : for 1 mock at death 1. To be in pain or sorrow. Out of use. With as stout heart as thou. Sbakspeare. 2. For stunned. TO STOW. v. a. [roop, Saxon ; stoe, old STOUND. n. s. [from the verb.) 1. Sorrow; grief; mishap. Out of use. Trisick, a place; stower, Dutch, to lay The Scots retain it. up.] To lay up; to reposite in order , Begin and end the bitter baleful stound, to lay in the proper place, If less than that I fear. Spenser. Foul thief! where hast thou stow'd my daugh. The fox his copesmate found, ter? Sbakspeare. To whom complaining his unhappy stound, l'th' holsters of the saddle-bow He with him far'd some better chance to find. Two aged pistols he did stow. Hudibres. Spenser. Dridea. 2. Astonishment ; amazement. Thus we stood as in a stound, All the patriots were bcheaded, stowed in dunAnd wet with tears, like dew, the ground. G.ay. geons, or condemned to work in the mines. Addison. 3. Hour; time ; season. The goddess shov'd the vessel from the shores, STOUR. n. so [stur, Runick, a battle ; And stocu'd within its womb the naval stores. steoran, Saxon, to disturb. ] Assault; Paper incursion ; tumult. Obsolete. So grieves th' advent'rous merchant, when he And he that harrow'd hell with heavy stur, throw's The faulty souls from thence brought to his All his long-toil'd-for treasure his ship stock's heav'nly bow'r. Fairy Queen. Into the angry majd. Curent. STO'WAGE. n. s. [from stow.] Let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again, 1. Room for laying up. Lash hence these over-weening rags of France, Sbakspeare. In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures, when the cargo is pure bullion, or mer Bottles missing are supposed to be half stolen chandize of as great a value. Addison. by stragglers, and the other half broken. Swift. 2. The state of being laid up. 2. Any thing that pushes beyond the rest, 'T is plate of rare device, and jewels or stands single. Of rich and exquisite form; their value's great ; Let thy hand supply the pruning knife, And I am something curious, being strange, And crop luxuriant stragglers, nor be loth To have them in safe stowags. Shadspeare. To strip the branches of their leafy growth. Dryden 3. Money paid for stowing of goods. STOWE, STOE, whether singly or jointly, His pruning hook corrects the vines, And the loose stragglers to their ranks confines are the same with the Saxon stop, a Popes place. Gibson. STRAIGHT. adj. [strack, old Dutch.} SIRA'BISM. n. s. [strabisme, Fr. strabis- It is well observed by Ainsworth, that for mus, Lat.) A squinting ; act of looking not crooked we ought to write straight, asquint. and for narrow, strait; but for streight, To STRA'DDLE. v. n. (supposed to come which sometimes found, there is no from striddle or stride.] To stand or good authority.] walk with the feet removed far from 1. Not crooked ; right. each other to the right and left; to part Beauty made barren the swell'd boast the legs wide. Of him that best could speak; feature, laming Let man survey himself, divested of artificial The shrine of Venus, or straight-pight Minerva, charms, and he will find himself a forked strade Shakspeare. dling animal, with bandy legs. Arbuth. and Pope. A hunter's horn and cornet is oblique; yet TO STRA'GGLE. v. a. (Of this word no they have likewise straight hors; which, if they be of the same bore with the oblique, ditfer little etymology is known: it is probably a in sound, save that the straighs require somefrequentative of stray, from stravviare, what a stronger blast. Bacon. Italian, of extra viam, Latin.] There are many several sorts of crooked lines; 1. To wander without any certain direc- but there is one only which is straigbt. Dryden. tion ; to rove; to ramble. Water and air the varied form confound; Bur stay; likeone that thinks to bring his friend The straight looks crooked, and the square grows A mile or two, and sees the journey's end, round. Prior. 1 straxgla on too far. Suckling: When I see a strait staff appear crooked while A wolt spied out a struggling kid, and pursued half under the water, the water gives me a false him. L'Estrange. Watts, Children, even when they endeavour theirut- 2. Narrow; close. This should properly most, cannot keep their ininds from straggling, be strait. sestroit, Fr.' See STRAIT.] Locke. Queen Elizabeth used to say of her instruer 2. To wander dispersedly. tions to great officers, that they were like to garHe likewise enriched poor straggling soldiers ments, straight at the first putting on, but did by with great quantity. and by wear loose enough. Bacon, They found in Burford some of the straggling 3. Tense; tight. Of this sense it is doubtsoldiers, who out of weariness stayed behind. ful whether it belongs to strait, close, Clarendon. From straggling mountaineers, for publick narrow; or to straight, not crooked. Pull good, the cord straight, may mean, draw it till To rank in tribes, and quit the savage wood; it has no flexure; tie it strait about you, Houses to build, and them contiguous make, may mean, draw it into a narrower comFor cheerful neighbourhood and safety's sake. pass. This ambiguity has perhaps con Tate. founded the orthography, 3. To exuberate ; to shoot too far. Were they content to prune the lavish vine STRAIGHT. adv. (strax, Danish ; strack, Of straggling branches, and improve the wine. Dutch.) Immediately; directly. This sense is naturally derived from the ad. Trim off the small superfluous branches on each jective, as a straight line is the shortest side of the hedge, that straggle too far out. Mortimer. line between two points. 4. To be dispersed ; to be apart from any If the devil come and roar for them, I will not send them. I will after straight, main body ; to stand single. And tell him so. Shekspeare. Having passed the Syrens, they came between Those stinks which the nostrils straight abhor Scylla and Charybdis, and the straggling rocks, and expel are not the most pernicious. Bacon. which seemed to cast out great store of flames With chalk I first describe a circle here, and sinoke. Raleigh. Where the ætherial spirits must appear: Wide was his parish, not contracted close Come in, come in; for here they will be strait: In streets, but here and there a straggling house; Around, around the place I fumigate. Dryden. Yet stiil he was at hand. Dryden. I know thy generous temper well; STRAGGLER. n. s. (from straggle.] Fling but the appearance of dishonour on it, 1. A wanderer; a rover ; one who forsakes It straight cakes fire, and mounts into a blaze. his company; one who rambles without Addison, any setileri direction. To STRAIGHTEN. v. a. [from straight.] The last should keep the countries from pass- 1. To make not crooked; to make straight. age of stragglers from those parts, whence they A crooked stick is not straigbtened, excepe is use to come forth, and oftentimes use to work be as far bent on the clean contrary side. Hooker. mucha mischief. Spenser. Of ourselves being so apt to ers, the waly way Sbakspeare. rate. ous. which we have to straigbten our paths is, by tot. The lark and linnet sing with rival notes, lowing the rule of his will, whose footsteps na- They strain their warbling throats turally are right. Hooker. To welcome in the spring. Dryden. 2. To make tense ; to tighten. Nor yet content, she strains her malice more, STRAIGHTLY. adv. (from straight.] And adds new ills to those contriv'd before. 1. In a right line ; pot crookedly. Dryden. It is the worst sort of good husbandry for a 2. Tightly; with tension. father not to strain himself a little for his son's STRAIGHTNESS. 1. s. [from straight. ] breeding. Lecte. 1. Rectitude; the contrary to crookedness. Our words flow from us in a smooth continued Some are for masts, as fir and pine, because of stream, without those strainings of the voice, the length and straightness. Bacon. motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, 2. Tension ; tightness. which are so much celebrated in the orators of STRAIGHTWAY. adv. (straight and way. Greece and Rome. Atterburg, It is very often wiitten straightways, Strairi'd to the root, the stooping forest pours and therefore is perhaps more proper A rustling shower of yet untimely leaves. Thomson ly written straightwise.] Immediately; 6. To make strait or tense: straight. A bigger string more strained, and a lesser Let me here for ay in peace remain, string less strained, may fall into the same tone. Or straigbtway on that last long voyage fare. Bacon. Spenser. Thou, the more he varies forms. bevare Soon as be enter'd was, the door straightway To strain his fetters with a stricter cae Drys, Did shut. Spenser. Like to a ship, that, having 'scap'd a tempest, 7. To push beyond the proper extent. Is straightway claim'd and boarded with a pia See they suffer deach; But in their deaths remember they are men, The Turks straightway breaking in upon Strain not the laws to make their torture grievthem, made a' bloody fight. Knolles. Addiso. As soon as iron is out of the fire, it deadeth There can be no other meaning in this expres sraightways. Bacon. sion, however some may pretend to straia it. The saund of a bell is strong; continueth soine Swift. time after the percussion; but ceaseth straight Your way is to wrest and strain some princiways if the bell or string be touched. Bacon. ples, maintained both by them and me, to a sense The sun's power being in those months great- repugnant with their other known doctrines. er, it then straightways hurries steams up into Waterland. the atmosphere. Woodward. 8. To force; to constrain; to make unT, STRAIN. v. a. [estreindre, French.] easy or unnatural. 1. To squeeze through something. The lark sings so out of tune, Their aliment ought to be light; rice boiled Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. in whey, and straineit. drbuthnot. Sbakspeare 2. To purify by filtration. He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth Earth doth not strain water so finely as sand. Is forc'd and strainet: in his looks appears Bacon. A wild distracted fierceness. Denban. 3. To squeeze in an embrace. T. SIRAIN. v. n. I would have strain'd him with a strict embrace; 1. To make violent efforts. But through my arms he slipt and vanish’d. Dryd. To build his fortune I will strain a litrle, Old Evander with a close embrace For 't is a bend in meu. Sbakspeare. Straind his departing friend, and tears o'erflow'd You stand like greyhounds in the slips, his face. Dryden. Straining upon the start, Sbakspeare. 4. To sprain; to weaken by too much vio They strain, lence. That death may not them idly find t'attend The jury make no more scruple to pass against Their certain last, but work to meet their end. Daaid. an Englishman and the queen, though it be to strain their oaths, than to drink milk unstrained. Straining with too weak a wing, We nceds will write epistles to the king. Pope. 2. To be filtered by compression. Strain their necks with looking back, Swift. Cæsar thought that all sea sands had natural s. To put to its most strength. Springs of fresh water: but it is the sea water; By this we see, in a cause of religion, to how because the pit filled according to the measure desperate adventures men will strain themselves of the tide; and the sea-water, passing or straire for relief of their own part, having law and au- ing through the sands, leaveth the saltness bethority against them. Hooker. hind them. Credit is gained by custom, and seldom reco And thus I set my foot on 's neck;_even then vers a strain; but, if broken, is never well set The princely blood flows in his cheek; he sweats, again. Templa Strains his young Derves, and puts himself in In all pain there is a deformity by a solution posture of continuity, as in cutting; or a tendency to soThat acts my words. Sbakspeare. lution, as in convulsions or strains. Grete. My earthly by his heavenly overpowerd, Which it had long stood under, straix'd to th' 2. (rtenge, Saxon.) Race; generation; height descent. In that celestial colloquy sublime, Thus far I can praise him; he is of a nuble As with an object that excels the sense, strain, Dazzled and spent, sunk down. Milton, Of approv'd valour. Sbakspeare Bacon. Twelve Trojan youths, born of their noblest These, when condens'd, the airy region pours strains, On the dry earth in rain or gentle showers; I took alive; and, yet enrag'd, will empty ali Th' insinuating drops sink through the sand, their veins And pass the porous strainers of the land, Blackmore. Waller. Just as they 're set, too fast or slow; Turn then to Pharamond and Charlemagne, And, where in conscience they 're straight lac'd, And the long heroes of the Gallick strain. Prior. 'Tis ten to one that side is cast. Hudbras. 3. Hereditary disposition. They are afraid to meet her, if they have Amongst these sweet knaves and all this missed the church; but then they are more courtesy! the strain of man 's bred out into afraid to see her, if they are laced as strait as baboon and monkey. Sbakspeare. they can possibly be. Laru. Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, 2. Close ; intimate. propagated, spoil the strain of a nation. Tillotson. He, forgetting all former injuries, had re4. A style or manner of speaking. ceived that naughty Plexirtus into a straight deAccording to the genius and strain of the gree of favour: his goodness being as apt to be book of Proverbs, the words wisdom and righte- deceived, as the other's craft was to deceive. busness are used to signify all religion and virtue. Sidney. Tillotson. 3. Strict; rigorous. In our liturgy are as great strains of true sub Therefore hold 1 strait all thy commandlime eloquence, as are any where to be found in ments; and all false ways I utterly abhor. our language. Swift. Psalms. Macrobius speaks of Hippocrates' knowledge Fugitives are not relieved by the profit of their in very lofty strains. Baker. lands in England, for there is a straighter order 5. Song ; note; sound. taken. Spenser. Wilt thou love such a woman? what, to make He now, forsooth, takes on him to reform thee an instrument, and play false strains upon Some certain ediets, and some strait decrees thee? Sbakspeare. That lay too heavy on the commonwealth. Sbakspeare, From golden slumber on a bed Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Glo'ster, Of heap'd Elysian flowers, and hear Than from the evidence of good esteem Such strains as would have won the ear He be approv'd in practice culpable. Shakspeare. Of Pluto, to have quite set free 4. Difficult ; distressful. His half-regain’d Eurydice. Milton. S. It is used in opposition to crooked, but Their heav'nly harps a lower strain began, is then more properly written straight. And in soft musick mourn the fall of man. Dryden. [See STRAIGHT.] When the first bold vessel dar'd the seas, A bell or a cannon may be heard beyond'a High on the stern the Thracian rais'd his strain; hill which intercepts the sight of the sounding While Argo saw her kindred trees body; and sounds are propagated as readily Descend from Pelion to the main. Pope. through crooked pipes as through strait ones. Some future strain, in which the muse shall Neuton, tell STRAIT. n. s. Young Plant garrisons to command the sireights and 6. Rank ; character. narrow passages. Spenser. But thou who, lately of the common strain, Honour travels in a streight so narrow, Wert one of us, if still thou dost retain Where one but goes abreast. Shakspeare. The same ill habits, the same follies too, Fretum Magellanicum, or Magellan's straits. Still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave. Abbot. Dryden. They went forth unto the straits of the moun-, 7. Turn ; tendency; inborn disposition. tain. Juditb Because hereticks have a strain of madness, The Saracens brought, together with their he applied her with some corporal chastisements, victories, their language and religion into allebat which with respite of time might haply reduce coast of Africk, even from Egypt to the streights her to good order. Hayzvard. Brerewood. 8. Manner of speech or action. 2. Distress ; difficulty. Such take too high a strain at the first, and The independent party, which abhorred all are magnanimous more than tract of years can motions towards peace, were in as great sirrights uphold; as was Scipio Africanus, of whom Livy as the other how to carry on their designs. saith,“ ultima primis cedebant.” Bacon. Clarendon. STRAI'NER. n. s. [from strain.] An in It was impossible to liave administered such advice to the king, in the streigbt he was in, strument of filtration. The excrementitious moisture passeth in birds which, being pursued, might not have proved in, convenient. Clarendon, through a finer and more delicate strainer than Thyself it doch in beasts; for feathers pass through quills, Bacon. and hair through skin. Bred up in poverty and streights at home, Lost in a desart here, and hunger-bit. Milton. Shave the goat's shaggy beard, lest thou too Thus Adam, sore beset, replied : late O Heav'n! in evil streigbt this day I stand In vain shouldst seek a strainer to dispart Before my Judge. Milton, The husky terrene dregs from purer must. 'T is hard with me, whatever choice I make; Philips. I must not merit you, or must forsake: But in this streight to honour I'll be true, the lacteal vessels the strainers, to separate the And leave my furtune to the gods and you. pure emulsion from its feces. Arbuthnol, Drydeth VOL. IV. Z Kings reduced to streigbts, either by their own, much straitened; and, if the mode increase, 1 or by the negligence of their predecessors, havé wish it may not drive many ordinary women been always involved in dark and mean intrigues. into meetings. Addison. Davenant. 5. To ai 55: to per plex. Some modern authors, observing what straits Men, by continually striving and fighting to they have been put to in all ages to find out enlarge their bounds, and encroaching upon one water enough for Noah's flood, say Noah's tiood another, seem to be straitened for want of room. was not univer cal, but a national inundation. Hay. Burnet. STRAITHA'NDED. adj. [from strait and Let no man who owns a Providence grow de band.] Persimonious ; sparing; nigsperate under any calamity or strat whatsoever, but compose the anguish of his thoughts upon gardly. this one consideration, that he comprehends not STRAITLA'CED. adj. (strait and lace.] those strange unaccountable methods by which 1. Griped with stays. Providence may dispose of him. South. Lei nature have scope to fashion the body as Cæsar sees she di inks best; we have few well-shaped that The streights to which you 're driven, and as he are straitiaced, or much tampered with. Locke. knows Suff; constraineü; without freedom. Cato's high worth, is anxious for your life. Strai'T L Y. adv. [from strait.] Addison Ulysses made use of the pretence of natural 1. Narrowly. infirmity, to conceal the straits he was in at that 2. Strictly ; rigoronsly. time in his thoughts. Broome. Those laws he straitiy requireth to be observed She watches their time of need and adversity; without breach or blivne. Hooker. and, if she can discover that they are in great 3. Closely ; intimately. streigbts or affliction, she gives them speedy re- Srrai'rness. n. s. [from strait.] lief. Larv. 1. Nurowness. To Stralt, v. a. [from the noun.] To The town was hard to besiege, and uneasy to put to difficulties. come unto, by reason of the straitness of all the If vour lass places. 2 Maccabees, Interpretation should abuse, and call this It is a great errour, and a narrowness or straitYour lack of love or bounty, you were straited ness of mind, if any man think that nations have For a reply; at least, if you make care nothing to do one with another, except there be Of happy holding her. Shakspeare. an union in sovereignty, or a conjunction in To STRAIPIEN. v. a. (from strait.] pact. Bacon. 1. To make narrow. The straitness of my conscience vill not give me leave to swallow down such cameis. The city of Sidor has a secure haven, yet with something a dangerous entiince, straitened on King Cbarles, the north side by the sea-ruined wall of the mole. 2. Strictness i rigour. Sandys. If inis own life answer the straitness of his proIf this be our condition, thus to dwell ceeding, it shall become him well. Sbaispeare. In narrow circuit, straiter'd by a foe Among the Romans, the laws of the twelve Subtile or violent. Milton. tab'es did exclude the female: from inheriting; Whatever straitens the vessels, so as the chan and had many other straitnesses and hardships, nels become more narrow, must heat; there- which were successively remedied. Hale. fore strait cloaths and cold baths heat. Arbuthnot. 3. Distress; difficulty. 2. To contract; to confine. 4. Want; scarcity. The straitening and confining the profession The straitness of the conveniencies of life of the common law, must naturally extend and among them had never reached so far as to the enlarge the jurisdiction of the chancery. use of fire, till the Spaniards brought it amongst Clarendon. them. Lockey The landed man finds himself aggrieved by STRAKE, [the obsolete preterit of strike.] the falling of his rents, and the strcightening of his fortune, whilst the monied man keeps up his Struck gain. Locke. Didst thou not see a bleeding hind, Feeling can give us a notion of all ideas that, Whose right haunch earst my stedtast arrow strake? enter at the eye, except colours; but it is very Spenser, much streigbtened and confined to the number, Fearing lost they should fall into the quickbulk, and distance, of its objects. Addison. sands, they strake sail, and so were driven. Acts. The causes which straiten the British com STRAKE. n. s. merce, will enlarge the French. Addison. 1. A long mark; a streak. See STREAK. 3. To make tight; to intend. See 2. A narrow board. STRAIGHT. STRANI). . s. (rirand, Saxon; strande, Stretch them at their length, Dutch ; strend, Islandick.] And pull the streigblend cords with all your 1. The verge of the seit, or of any water. strength. Dryden. Morality, by her false guardians drawn, I saw sweet beauty in her face; Such as the daughter of Agenor had, Chicane in furs, and casuistry in lawn, That made great Jove to humble him to her Gasps, as they straiten at each end the cord, hand, And dies when Dulness gives her page the word. Dunciad. When with his knees he kiss'd the Cretan strand. Sbakspeare: 4. To deprive of necessary room. Some wretched lines from this neglected hand Waters, when straitened, as in the falls of May find my hero on the foreign strand, bridges, give a roaring noise. Bacon. Warm’d with new fires. Priør, He could not be streightened in room or pro Clarendon. visions, or compelled to light. 2. A twist of a rope. I know not whence *The airy crowd derived. Swarm'd, and were straiten'd. Milton. To STRAND. v. a. [from the noun.] TO Suverai congregations find themselves very drive or force upon the shallows. |