SPage 558
- English Word Stranger Definition One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.
- English Word Stranger Definition One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.
- English Word Stranger Definition One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.
- English Word Stranger Definition One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.
- English Word Stranger Definition One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
- English Word Stranger Definition One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.
- English Word Stranger Definition To estrange; to alienate.
- English Word Strangle Definition To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.
- English Word Strangle Definition To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.
- English Word Strangle Definition To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.
- English Word Strangle Definition To be strangled, or suffocated.
- English Word Strangleable Definition Capable of being strangled.
- English Word Strangled Definition of Strangle
- English Word Strangler Definition One who, or that which, strangles.
- English Word Strangles Definition A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.
- English Word Strangling Definition of Strangle
- English Word Strangulate Definition Strangulated.
- English Word Strangulated Definition Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia.
- English Word Strangulated Definition Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted.
- English Word Strangulation Definition The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.
- English Word Strangulation Definition Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.
- English Word Strangurious Definition Of or pertaining to strangury.
- English Word Strangury Definition A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.
- English Word Strangury Definition A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it.
- English Word Strany Definition The guillemot.
- English Word Strap Definition A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- English Word Strap Definition Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.
- English Word Strap Definition A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.
- English Word Strap Definition A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
- English Word Strap Definition A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.