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Amazement. Coleridge.

See Astrakhan.

In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse.

Pertaining to the genus Astræa or the family Astræidæ. -- n.

A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle.

Of or pertaining to the astragalus.

Resembling the astragalus in form.

Divination by means of small bones or dice.

See Astragal, 1.

Of or pertaining to Astrakhan in Russia or its products; made of an Astrakhan skin. -- n.

rtaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike. Shines only with an astral luster. I. Taylor. Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer. Dryden. Astral lamp, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained. -…

Stranded. Sir W. Scott.

Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.

To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot.

A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance on the animal economy. Dunglison.

Binding; astringent. -- n.

Astrictive. [R.]

With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.

Bearing stars. [R.] Blount.

To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress. Which contraction . . . astringeth the moistuBacon.