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ed and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.

Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.

An instrument to cut straw for fodder.

of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, F. vesca. There are also other less common species. Strawberry bass. (Zoöl.) See Calico bass, under Calico. -- Strawberry blite. (Bot.) See under Blite. -- Strawberry borer (Zoöl.…

Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.

imp. & p. p. of Straw. [Obs.]

A caddice worm.

Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw. Shak.

Straw put into a bed. Bacon.

An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton.

The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels.

To overstrew. [Obs.] Shak.

A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Shelley.

sely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in smal…

ge of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw Bale of dice, a pair of dice. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

ings. He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches and thatched with straw. Gibbon.

sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. Byron. I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. Shak. In bed he slept not for my urging it. Shak.

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.