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test of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. Doting about questions and strifes of words. 1 Tim. vi. 4. Thus gods contended -- noble strife -Who most should ease the wants of life. Congreve.

Contentious; discordant. The ape was strifeful and ambitious. Spenser.

Bearing stars. [R.] Blount.

The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color.

Producing oysters; containing oysters.

A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.

ural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.

To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition. [Obs.] In strifeful terms with him to balk. Spenser.

Strife; contention. [Obs.] Shak.

To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. He beat them in a bloody battle. Prescott. For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. M. Arnold.

ly devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others. "Bigoted to strife." Byron.

A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel. [Obs.] Chesterfield.

To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife. Give me a bowl of wine In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. Shak. Burying beetle (Zoöl.), the general name of many species of beetles, of the tribe Necrophaga; the sexton beetle; -- so called from their habit of burying small dead animals by d…

The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.

n end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased "To cease from strife." Prov. xx. 3.

Strife; contention; controversy. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper.

ing, or endevearing to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before…

ose which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt. I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife. Shak. To compound a felony, to accept of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding being an indictable offense. See Theftbote.

Strife; contention. [Obs.] Bailey.