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- English Word Streamy Definition Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream.
- English Word Stree Definition Straw.
- English Word Streek Definition To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak.
- English Word Streel Definition To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.
- English Word Streen Definition See Strene.
- English Word Street Definition Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.
- English Word Streetwalker Definition A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.
- English Word Streetward Definition An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets.
- English Word Streetward Definition Facing toward the street.
- English Word Streight Definition See 2nd Strait.
- English Word Streighten Definition See Straiten.
- English Word Strein Definition To strain.
- English Word Streit Definition Drawn.
- English Word Streit Definition Close; narrow; strict.
- English Word Streite Definition Narrowly; strictly; straitly.
- English Word Strelitz Definition A soldier of the ancient Muscovite guard or Russian standing army; also, the guard itself.
- English Word Strelitzia Definition A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers.
- English Word Strene Definition Race; offspring; stock; breed; strain.
- English Word Strenger Definition Alt. of Strengest
- English Word Strengest Definition the original compar. & superl. of Strong.
- English Word Strength Definition The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
- English Word Strength Definition Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.
- English Word Strength Definition Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.
- English Word Strength Definition That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument.
- English Word Strength Definition One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security.
- English Word Strength Definition Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?
- English Word Strength Definition Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work.
- English Word Strength Definition Intensity; -- said of light or color.
- English Word Strength Definition Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids.
- English Word Strength Definition A strong place; a stronghold.