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To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.

A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.

ng this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.

Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, strophes.

Furnished with a strophiole, or caruncle, or that which resembles it. Gray.

A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.

See Red-gum, 1.

An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

n Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts;…

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

An argument retorted on an opponent. Milton.

addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.

To address by apostrophe.

See Astrofel. [Obs.]

The application of photography to the delineation of the sun, moon, and stars.

A photometer for measuring the brightness of stars.

The determination of the brightness of stars, and also of the sun, moon, and planets. --As`tro*pho`to*met"ric*al (#), a.

Pertaining to the physics of astronomical science.

The science treating of the physical characteristics of the stars and other heavenly bodies, their chemical constitution, light, heat, atmospheres, etc.