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See Strene. [Obs.] Chaucer.

illage, bordered by dwellings or business houses. He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field. Coverdale. At home or through the high street passing. Milton.

A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.

An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets. [Obs.] Cowell.

See 2nd Strait. [Obs.]

See Straiten. [Obs.]

To strain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Drawn. [Obs.] Pyrrhus with his streite sword. Chaucer.

Narrowly; strictly; straitly. [Obs.]

A soldier of the ancient Muscovite guard or Russian standing army; also, the guard itself.

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.

Race; offspring; stock; breed; strain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, the original compar. & superl. of Strong. [Obs.] Two of us shall strenger be than one. Chaucer.

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. All his [Samson's] strength in his hairs were. Chaucer. Thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty. Milton.

To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority. Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shak.

One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.

That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster (Med.), a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.

Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.

A stronghold. [Obs.]

Destitute of strength. Boyle.