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To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

ot forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare. A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums! Shak.

Flutter wheel, a water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes.

The size or strike with the talon. [Poet.] Shak.

To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.

low beam, to determine the depth of the furrow. -- Joiner's gauge, an instrument used to strike a line parallel to the straight side of a board, etc. -- Printer's gauge, an instrument to regulate the length of the page. -- Rain gauge, an instrument for measuring the quantity of rain at any given place. -- Salt gaug…

To strike aghast; to affright. [Obs.] Ghasted by the noise I made. Full suddenly he fled. Shak.

To strike; to smite. [Obs.] To slay him and to girden off his head. Chaucer.

To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". Shak. On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground. Milton.

To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.

One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.

dualness of this movement. M. Arnold. The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which strikes the simplest observer. H. Drummond.

To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded on the bar.

That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.

Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.

thine hand to. Deut. xxiii. 20. -- To stand one in hand, to concern or affect one. -- To strike hands, to make a contract, or to become surety for another's debt or good behavior. -- To take in hand. (a) To attempt or undertake. (b) To seize and deal with; as, he took him in hand. -- To wash the hands of, to disclai…

A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun. Harpoon fork, a kind of hayfork, consisting of bar with hinged barbs at one end a loop for a rope…

To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies. Dryden. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. Shak.

A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.

ve similar to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece of paper.