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A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders. Bowstring bridge, a bridge formed of an arch of timber or iron, often braced, the thrust of which is resisted by a tie forming a chord of the arch. -- Bowstring girder, an arched beam strengthened by a tie connecting its two ends. -- Bowstring hemp (Bot.), the tena…

Put to death with a bowstring; strangled.

The young of an animal. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

onze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals. The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. W. Black.

us manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.

Importunes personal conference. Shak. What business has the tortoise among the clouds L'Estrange.

Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement. A strange bustle and disturbance in the world. South.

A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.

ret purpose; selfish advantage. [Written also bye-end.] "Profit or some other by-end." L'Estrange.

erial, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet. Coleridge.

ance; a circumstance, or all the circumstamces; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes. In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge. Deut. xxiv. 13. If the case of the man be so with his wife. Matt. xix. 10. And when a lady's in the case. You know al…

ually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune. The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London. Bp. Buret. The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. Woodward.

The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia. [Frequently written kelotomy.]

Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. [R.] His strange face, his strange chant. Macaulay. Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian. Chant royal Etym: [F.], in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. -- each of these six parts ending with a common refrain. --…

for their relief; alms; any act of kindness. She did ill then to refuse her a charity. L'Estrange.

Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe.

breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.

That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.

n the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up. L'estrange.

One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide. Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero. Trench.