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To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation. The flax and the barely was smitten. Ex. ix. 31.

The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray.

To make smug, or spruce. [Obs.] Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair. Dryton.

linder or condenser of a steam engine, to allow the escape of air when the piston makes a stroke; -- so called from the noise made by its action.

To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke. [Obs.]

A stroke; a glance; a touch. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.

A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed. Deut. xxv. 3.

The act of rubbing gently with the hand, or of smoothing; a stroke. I doubt not with one gentle stroking to wipe away ten thousand tears. Milton.

A stroke. [Obs.] Chaucer.

orce; strong; lusty; violent; as, a sturdy lout. How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Gray.

cutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer. Send the successive ills through ages down. Prior.

sunbird, and tiger bittern. -- Sun fever (Med.), the condition of fever produced by sun stroke. -- Sun gem (Zoöl.), a Brazilian humming bird (Heliactin cornutus). Its head is ornamented by two tufts of bright colored feathers, fiery crimson at the base and greenish yellow at the tip. Called also Horned hummer. -- S…

Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke; as, sun-struck soldiers.

A blow; a stroke. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

To strike with a long stroke. Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre. Pope.

To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail. Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point. Shak.

Chaucer. For which men swink and sweat incessantly. Spenser. The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho." Sir Samuel Freguson.

The stroke in beating time.

To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.