AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
stricture: strictness.-a stroke; a glance; a touch.-a touch of adverse criticism; censure.-a localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body.  cf. organic stricture, and spasmodic stricture, under organic, and spasmodic.
strid: a narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride.-of stride-of stride
stride: to walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner.-to stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.-to pass over at a step; to step over.-to straddle; to bestride.-the act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride.
stridulate: to make a shrill, creaking noise-to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.
stridulation: the act of stridulating.-the act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.-the noise itself.
stridulatory: stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation.
strife: the act of striving; earnest endeavor.-exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.-altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.-that which is contended against; occasion of contest.
strigil: an instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.
strigose: set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.
striker: one who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge.-a harpoon; also, a harpooner.-a wencher; a lewd man.-a workman who is on a strike.-a blackmailer in politics; also, one whose political influence can be bought.
striking: of strike-a. & n. from strike, v.-affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible; impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance.
string: a small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.-a thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.-a strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.-the cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.-the line or cord of a bow.-a fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.-a nerve or tendon of an animal body.-an inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.-the tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.-a small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.-same as stringcourse.-the points made in a game.-to furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.-to put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.-to put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.-to make tense; to strengthen.-to deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. see string, n., 9.
stringcourse: a horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.
stringent: binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules.
stringer: one who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.-a libertine; a wencher.-a longitudinal sleeper.-a streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.-a long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.
stringhalt: an habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.
stringpiece: a long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:-one of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.
stringy: consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.-capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
strip: to deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark.-to divest of clothing; to uncover.-to dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc.-to pare off the surface of, as land, in strips.-to deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow.-to pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.-to pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses.-to tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.-to tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped.-to remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.-to remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.-to pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).-to take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering; to undress.-to fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. see strip, v. t., 8.-a narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land.-a trough for washing ore.-the issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
stripe: a line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe.-a pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.-a strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed upon a garment.-a stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark.-a long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like.-color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe.-the chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.-to make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.-to strike; to lash.
stripling: a youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.
stripper: one who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
stripping: of strip-the act of one who strips.-the last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.
strisores: a division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. it is now generally considered an artificial group.
strive: to make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.-to struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.-to vie; to compete; to be a rival.-an effort; a striving.-strife; contention.
stroam: to wander about idly and vacantly.-to take long strides in walking.
strobila: a form of the larva of certain discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. the body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae.-a mature tapeworm.
strobilation: the act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. see illust. under syllidian.
strobile: a scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. see cone, n., 3.-an individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.-same as strobila.
strobiline: of or pertaining to a strobile; strobilaceous; strobiliform; as, strobiline fruits.
stroboscope: an instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.-an optical toy similar to the phenakistoscope. see phenakistoscope.
strockle: a shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc.
stroke: struck.-the act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.-the result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.-the striking of the clock to tell the hour.-a gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.-a mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.-hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.-a sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.-a throb or beat, as of the heart.-one of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.-the rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.-the oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.-the rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.-a powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.-the movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.-power; influence.-appetite.-to strike.-to rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.-to make smooth by rubbing.-to give a finely fluted surface to.-to row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.
strokesman: of strokesman-the man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest.
stroking: the act of rubbing gently with the hand, or of smoothing; a stroke.-the act of laying small gathers in cloth in regular order.-see stripping, 2.
stroll: to wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.-a wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.
stroma: the connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney.-the spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.-a layer or mass of cellular tissue, especially that part of the thallus of certain fungi which incloses the perithecia.
stromb: any marine univalve mollusk of the genus strombus and allied genera. see conch, and strombus.
strombuliform: formed or shaped like a top.-coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.
strombus: a genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. it includes many large and handsome species commonly called conch shells, or conchs. see conch.
stromeyerite: a steel-gray mineral of metallic luster. it is a sulphide of silver and copper.
strong: having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.-having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.-solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.-having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.-having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants.-reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.-moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.-adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.-ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong whig or tory.-having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.-full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.-affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.-solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.-well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.-violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.-having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination.-vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful.-tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.-pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. opposed to weak, or regular. see weak.-applied to forms in anglo-saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. in the teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.
strong-minded: having a vigorous mind; esp., having or affecting masculine qualities of mind; -- said of women.
strong-water: an acid.-distilled or ardent spirits; intoxicating liquor.
stronghold: a fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
strongly: in a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
strongyloid: like, or pertaining to, strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious.-a strongyloid worm.
strontia: an earth of a white color resembling lime in appearance, and baryta in many of its properties. it is an oxide of the metal strontium.
strontianite: strontium carbonate, a mineral of a white, greenish, or yellowish color, usually occurring in fibrous massive forms, but sometimes in prismatic crystals.
strontic: of or pertaining to strontium; containing, or designating the compounds of, strontium.
strontium: a metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc. it is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium. it is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. symbol sr. atomic weight 87.3.-a radioactive isotope of strontium produced by certain nuclear reactions, and constituting one of the prominent harmful components of radioactive fallout from nuclear explosions; also called radiostrontium. it has a half-life of 28 years.
strop: a strap; specifically, same as strap, 3.-to draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.-a piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
strophanthus: a genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. one species (strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.
strophe: in greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. see the note under antistrophe.
strophiolated: furnished with a strophiole, or caruncle, or that which resembles it.
strophiole: a crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.
stroud: a kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the north american indians.
strouding: material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the north american indians.
strout: to swell; to puff out; to project.-to cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.
structural: of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error.-of or pertaining to organit structure; as, a structural element or cell; the structural peculiarities of an animal or a plant.
structure: the act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.-manner of building; form; make; construction.-arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body; as, the structure of a rock or a mineral; the structure of a sentence.-manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure.-that which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.
structureless: without a definite structure, or arrangement of parts; without organization; devoid of cells; homogeneous; as, a structureless membrane.
struggle: to strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.-to use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity.-to labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.-a violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.-great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.-contest; contention; strife.
strum: to play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.
struma: scrofula.-a cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.
strumpet: a prostitute; a harlot.-of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet.-to debauch.-to dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander.
strut: to swell; to bulge out.-to walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.-the act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.-in general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. see brace, and illust. of frame, and roof.-any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.-to hold apart.  cf. strut, n., 3.-protuberant.
struthiones: of struthio-a division, or order, of birds, including only the african ostriches.-in a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. in this sense it is equivalent to ratitae, or dromaeognathae.
struvite: a crystalline mineral found in guano. it is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.
strychnic: of or pertaining to strychnine; produced by strychnine; as, strychnic compounds; strychnic poisoning-used to designate an acid, called also igasuric acid.
strychnine: a very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the st. ignatius bean (strychnos ignatia) and from nux vomica. it is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.
strychnos: a genus of tropical trees and shrubs of the order loganiaceae. see nux vomica.
stryphnic: pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, obtained by the action of acetic acid and potassium nitrite on uric acid, as a yellow crystalline substance, with a bitter, astringent taste.
stub: the stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.-a log; a block; a blockhead.-the short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar.-a part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.-a pen with a short, blunt nib.-a stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.-to grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.-to remove stubs from; as, to stub land.-to strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object.
stubbed: of stub-reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.-abounding in stubs; stubby.-not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged.
stubble: the stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.
stubborn: firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.
stubby: abounding with stubs.-short and thick; short and strong, as bristles.
stucco: plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for internal decorations and fine work.-work made of stucco; stuccowork.-to overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster.
stuck-up: self-important and supercilious, /onceited; vain; arrogant.
stud: a collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.-a stem; a trunk.-an upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.-a kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss.-an ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.-a short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.-a stud bolt.-an iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.-to adorn with shining studs, or knobs.-to set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs.