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from Stretch, v. Stretching course (Masonry), a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.

In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time. [Written also stretta.]

loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave. And strewed his mangled limbs about the field. Dryden. On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about. Beaconsfield.…

Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural. Shak.

Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. [Obs.] Shak.

p. p. of Strew.

A female ancestor.

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.

A female baker. [Obs.]

A baker. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To streak.

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.

See Bister.

A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay.

An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property.

See Kestrel.

Belonging to a camp. Sir T. Browne.

Castrensial. [R.]