Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: STRANGE – STRA'TA
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STRANGE, v.t.
To alienate; to estrange. [Not in use.]
STRANGE-LOOK-ING, a.
Having an odd or unusual look.
STRANGE-LY, adv.
- With some relation to foreigners. [Obs.] – Shak.
- Wonderfully; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder. How strangely active are the arts of peace. – Dryden. It would strangely delight you to see with what spirit he converses. – Law.
STRANGE'NESS, n.
- Foreignness; the state of belonging to another country. If I will obey the Gospel, no distance of place, no strangeness, of country can make any man a stranger to me. – Sprat.
- Distance in behavior; reserve; coldness; forbidding manner. Will you not observe / The strangeness of his alter'd countenance? – Shak.
- Remoteness from common manners or notions; uncouthness. Men worthier than himself / Here tend the savage strangeness he puts on. – Shak.
- Alienation of mind; estrangement; mutual dislike. This might seem a means to continue a strangeness between the two nations. – Bacon. [This sense is obsolete or little used.]
- Wonderfulness; the power of exciting surprise and wonder; uncommonness that raises wonder by novelty. This raised greater tumults in the hearts of men, than strangeness and seeming unreasonableness of all the former articles. – South.
STRAN'GER, n. [Fr. etranger.]
- A foreigner; one who belongs to another country. Paris and London are visited by strangers from all the countries of Europe.
- One of another town, city, state, or province in the same country. The Commencements in American colleges are frequented by multitudes of strangers from the neighboring towns and states.
- One unknown. The gentleman is a stranger to me.
- One unacquainted. My child is yet a stranger to the world. – Shak. I was no stranger to the original. – Dryden.
- A guest; a visitor. – Milton.
- One not admitted to any communication or fellowship. Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, / And strangers to the sun yet ripen here. – Granville.
- In law, one not privy or party to an act.
STRAN'GER, v.t.
To estrange; to alienate. [Not in use.] – Shak.
STRAN'GLE, v.t. [Fr. etrangler; It. strangolare; L. strangulo.]
- To choke; to suffocate; to destroy life by stopping respiration. Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself. – Ayliffe.
- To suppress; to hinder from birth or appearance. – Shak.
STRAN'GLE-A-BLE, a.
That may be strangled. – Chesterfield.
STRAN'GLED, pp.
Choked; suffocated; suppressed.
STRAN'GLER, n.
One who strangles.
STRAN'GLES, n.
Swellings in a horse's throat.
STRAN'GLING, n.
The act of destroying life by stopping respiration.
STRAN'GLING, ppr.
Choking; suffocating; suppressing.
STRAN'GU-LA-TED, a.
In surgery, having the circulation stopped in any part, by compression. A hernia is said to be strangulated, when it is so compressed as to obstruct the circulation in the part, and cause dangerous symptoms. – Cyc.
STRAN-GU-LA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. strangulatio.]
- The act of strangling; the act of destroying life by stopping respiration; suffocation. – Wiseman.
- That kind of suffocation which is common to women in hysterics; also, the compression of the intestines in hernia, so as to suspend the circulation in the part. – Cyc.
STRAN-GU'RI-OUS, a.
Laboring under strangury; of the nature of strangury; denoting the pain of strangury. – Cheyne.
STRAN'GU-RY, n. [L. stranguria; Gr. στραγγουρια; στραγξ, a drop, and ουρον, urine.]
A painful and stillatitious discharge of urine.
STRAP, n. [D. strop, a rope or halter; Dan. and Sw. strop; Sax. stropp.; L. strupus. Strap and strop appear to be from stripping, and perhaps stripe also; all having resemblance to a strip of bark peeled from a tree.]
- A long narrow slip of cloth or leather, of various forms and for various uses; as, the strap of a shoe or boot; straps for fastening trunks or other baggage, for stretching limbs in surgery, &c.
- In botany, the flat part of the corollet in ligulate florets; also, the leaf exclusive of its sheath in some grasses. – Martyn.
STRAP, v.t.
- To beat or chastise with a strap.
- To fasten or bind with a strap.
- To rub on a strap for sharpening, as a razor.
STRAP-PA'DO, n. [It. strappata, a pull, strappado; strappare, to pull.]
A military punishment formerly practiced. It consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall, by which means a limb was sometimes dislocated. – Shak.
STRAP-PA'DO, v.t.
To torture. – Milton.
STRAP'PED, pp.
Drawn or rubbed on a strap; beaten with a strap; fastened with a strap.
STRAP'PING, ppr.
- Drawing on a strap, as a razor.
- Binding with a strap.
- adj. Tall; lusty; as, a strapping fellow.
STRAP'-SHAP-ED, a.
In botany, ligulate.
STRA'TA, n. [plur. See Stratum.]
Beds; layers; as, strata of sand, clay, or coal.