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ow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride. [Prov. Eng.] Howitt. This striding place is called the Strid. Wordsworth.

in a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field. Dryden.

Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray.

A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise. Dryden.

To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically (Zoöl.),

The act of stridulating. Specifically: (Zoöl.)

That which stridulates. Darwin.

Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation. Darwin.

Making a shrill, creaking sound. Sir T. Browne. The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart. Longfellow. Stridulous laryngitis (Med.), a form of croup, or laryngitis, in children, associated with dyspnoea, occurring usually at night, and marked by crowing or stridulous breathing.

side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.

To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.

To surpass in striding.

To stride over or beyond.

One who rides over a post road to carry the mails. Bancroft.

Astride; with a part on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse.

To bestride.

imp. & p. p. of Bestride.

A dipterous insect of the family (Estridæ, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvæ of which (bots) are taken into the stom…

Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue. "A colossal stride." Motley.