Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STRAT'A-GEM, n. [L. stratagema; Fr. stratageme; It. stratagemma; Gr. στρατηγημα, from στρατηγεω, to lead an army.]

1. An artifice, particularly in war; a plan or scheme for deceiving an enemy. – Shak.
2. Any artifice; a trick by which some advantage is intended to be obtained. Those oft are stratagems which errors seem. – Pope.

STRAT-A-GEM'IC-AL, a.

Containing stratagem, or artifice. [Little used.]

STRA'TEGE, or STRAT'E-GUS, n. [Gr. στρατηγος.]

An Athenian general officer. – Mitford.

STRA-TE'GIC, or STRA-TE'GIC-AL, a.

Pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice.

STRAT'E-GIST, n.

One skilled in the art of arranging an army for conflict.

STRAT'E-GY, n.

That branch of military science which consists in teaching or knowing how to conduct an army in conflict and the preparation for battle. The science of military command.

STRATH, n. [W. ystrad.]

A vale, bottom or low ground between hills. [Not in use.]

STRATH'SPEY, n.

A lively dance of the Scotch.

STRAT-I-FI-CA'TION, n. [from stratify.]

1. The process by which substances in the earth have been formed into strata or layers.
2. The state of being formed into layers in the earth.
3. The act of laying in strata.

STRAT'I-FI-ED, pp.

Formed into a layer, as a terrene substance.

STRA'TI-FORM, a.

In the form of strata.

STRAT'I-FY, v.t. [Fr. stratifier, from L. stratum.]

1. To form into a layer, as substances in the earth. Thus clay, sand, and other species of earth are often found stratified.
2. To lay in strata.

STRAT'I-FY-ING, ppr.

Arranging in a layer, as terrene substances.

STRA-TI-GRAPH'IC-AL, a.

Belonging to stratography. – Sedgwick.

STRA-TI-GRAPH'IC-AL-LY, adv.

In a stratigraphical manner. – Sedgwick.

STRA-TOC'RA-CY, n. [Gr. στρατος, an army, and κρατεω, to hold.]

A military government; government by military chiefs an an army. – Guthrie.

STRA-TOG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. στρατος, an army, and γραφω, to describe.]

Description of armies, or what belongs to an army.

STRA-TON'IC, a.

Pertaining to an army.

STRA-TOT'IC, a.

Warlike; military.

STRA'TUM, n. [plur. Stratums or Strata. The latter is most common. L. from sterno, to spread or lay; Sax. streone.]

1. In geology and mineralogy, a layer; any species of earth, sand, coal and the like, arranged in a flat form, distinct from the adjacent matter. The thicker strata are called beds; and these beds are sometimes stratified.
2. A bed or layer artificially made.

STRAUGHT, pp. [for Stretched. Obs.]

– Chaucer.

STRAW, n. [Sax. streow, straw, and a stratum or bed; G. stroh; D. stroo; Dan. straae; Sw. strå; L. stramentum, from sterno, stravi, stratum. See Strew.]

1. The stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, &c. chiefly of wheat, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat and peas. When used of single stalks, it admits of a plural, straws. Straws may show which way the wind blows. We say grain while growing, the straw is large, or it is rusty.
2. A mass of the stalks of certain species of grain when cut and after being thrashed; as, a bundle or a load of straw. In this sense, the word admits not the plural number.
3. Any thing proverbially worthless. I care not a straw for the play. I will not abate a straw. – Hudibras.

STRAW, v.t.

To spread or scatter. [See Strew and Strow.]

STRAW'BER-RY, n. [straw and berry; Sax. straw-berie.]

A plant and its fruit of the genus Fragaria. Strawberries are of various kinds, all delicious fruit.

STRAW'BER-RY-TREE, n.

An evergreen tree of the genus Arbutus; the fruit is of a fleshy substance, like a strawberry. – Lee. Miller.