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_To_ STRENKEL.
V. ~Strinkil~.
_To_ STRENTH, _v. a._ To strengthen.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
~Strenthly~, _adv._ By main strength.
_Barbour._
STRESS, _s._
1. An ancient mode of taking up indictments for circuit courts.
_Erskine._
2. The act of distraining.
_Acts Ja. II._
A. S. _strece_, violentia; or O. Fr. _straind-re_.
STRESTELY, _adv._ Perh. for _trestely_, faithfully.
V. ~Traist~.
_Wallace._
_To_ STRY, _v. a._ To overcome.
_Sir Gawan._
O. Fr. _estri-er_, presser, empecher d'echapper.
STRIAK. _Striak of the swesch_, sound of the trumpet.
_Stat. Gild._
Perh. for _straik_, q. stroke; or like ~Streik~, _s._ sense 2.
_To_ STRICK _lint_, to tie up flax in small handfuls, for being milled, S. B.
Teut. _strick-en_, nectare, connectare; Isl. _strik-a_, lineam ducere.
~Strick~, _s._ A handful of flax knit at the end, in order to its being milled, S. B.
Teut. _strick_, vinculum.
STRICT, _adj._ Rapid, applied to a stream, S.
_Z. Boyd._
Sw. _streke_, main current of a river.
_To_ STRIDDLE, _v. n._ To straddle, S.
Dan. _strett-a_, pedibus divaricare.
STRIDE-LEGS, _adv._ Astride, S.
_J. Nicol._
STRIDELINGIS, _adv._ Astride.
_Lyndsay._
_To_ STRYK _a battle_, or _field_; to fight.
_Wyntown._
STRYND, STREIND, _s._
1. Kindred, race.
_Wyntown._
E. _strain_, id., A. S. _strynd_, stirps, genus; _strin-an_, gignere.
2. A particular cast or disposition of any person, who in this respect is said to resemble another, generally used as to those related by blood, S.
_Rudd._
~Strynd~, _s._ A spring; shallow run of water; synon. _strype_.
_Douglas._
