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One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.

The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten.

Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil.

A racing stroke in which a double over-arm motion is used; -- so called from its use by an amateur named Trudgen, but often erroneously written trudgeon.

Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.

To underline or underscore. Swift.

Not revenged; unavenged. [Obs.] Surrey.

An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made. Some upstroke of an Alpha and Omega. Mrs. Browning.

Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse. Youatt.

p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.

Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

iferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

singer. Alto clef (Mus.) the counter-tenor clef, or the C clef, placed so that the two strokes include the middle line of the staff. Moore.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes. "Anecdotical traditions." Bolingbroke.

Old age. [Obs.] It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak.

f, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke.

. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.