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A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers. Knight.

Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.

An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.

See Strickle.

See Strickle. [Prov. Eng.]

Awe-struck.

Shocked; dismayed.

See Moonstruck.

Struck with a panic, or sudden fear. Burke.

Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.

Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken. [Obs.] A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. I. Watts.

n the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9.

acteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. "Blank and horror-stricken faces." C. Kingsley. The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness. G. Eliot.

Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken. [Obs.]

A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on stricking the steel ignites the priming.

ecies of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.

Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken. Milton.

Struck with horror; horrified. Blank and horror-stricken faces. C. Kingsley.

Horror-stricken; horrified. M. Arnold.

e; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind. How often has stricken you dumb with his irony! Landor.