Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STRANGE, v.t.

To alienate; to estrange. [Not in use.]

STRANGE-LOOK-ING, a.

Having an odd or unusual look.

STRANGE-LY, adv.

1. With some relation to foreigners. [Obs.] – Shak.
2. 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.

1. 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.
2. Distance in behavior; reserve; coldness; forbidding manner. Will you not observe / The strangeness of his alter'd countenance? – Shak.
3. Remoteness from common manners or notions; uncouthness. Men worthier than himself / Here tend the savage strangeness he puts on. – Shak.
4. 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 [This sense is obsolete or little used.]
5. 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.]

1. A foreigner; one who belongs to another country. Paris and London are visited by strangers from all the countries of Europe.
2. 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.
3. One unknown. The gentleman is a stranger to me.
4. One unacquainted. My child is yet a stranger to the world. – Shak. I was no stranger to the original. – Dryden.
5. A guest; a visitor. – Milton.
6. 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.
7. 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.]

1. To choke; to suffocate; to destroy life by stopping respiration. Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself. – Ayliffe.
2. 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.]

1. The act of strangling; the act of destroying life by stopping respiration; suffocation. – Wiseman.
2. 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.]

1. 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.
2. 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.

1. To beat or chastise with a strap.
2. To fasten or bind with a strap.
3. 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.

1. Drawing on a strap, as a razor.
2. Binding with a strap.
3. 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.