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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,521 words match “RID”

STELLERIDAN; STELLERIDEAN n.

A starfish, or brittle star.

passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride. [Prov. Eng.] Howitt. This striding place is called the Strid. Wordsworth.

STRIDE v. 5 definitions

n a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field. Dryden.

Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray.

A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise. Dryden.

STRIDULATE v. 2 definitions

To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically (Zoöl.),

STRIDULATION n. 3 definitions

The act of stridulating. Specifically: (Zoöl.)

That which stridulates. Darwin.

STRIDULATORY a.

Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation. Darwin.

Making a shrill, creaking sound. Sir T. Browne. The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart. Longfellow. Stridulous laryngitis (Med.), a form of croup, or laryngitis, in children, associated with dyspnoea, occurring usually at night, and marked by crowing or stridulous breathing.

Moderalely acrid or harsh.

Any of a group of meteors appearing November 20-23; -- so called because they appear to radiate from a point in Taurus.

A bull Sir W. Scott.

A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.

THRID v. 4 definitions

n the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread. Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair. Pope. And now he thrids the bramble bush. J. R. Drake. I began To thrid the musky-circled mazes. Tennyson.

TORRID a. 2 definitions

Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. "Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil." Milton.

Torridness. [R.]

The quality or state of being torrid or parched.

A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.