Stratification (n.) The deposition of material in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a stratified appearance.
Stratified (a.) Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.
Stratiform (a.) Having the form of strata.
Stratified (imp. & p. p.) of Stratify
Stratifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stratify
Stratify (v. t.) To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.
Stratigraphic (a.) Alt. of Stratigraphical
Stratigraphical (a.) Pertaining to, or depended upon, the order or arrangement of strata; as, stratigraphical evidence.
Stratigraphic (a.) Alt. of -ical
-ical (a.) See Stratographic.
Stratigraphy (n.) That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.
Stratocracy (n.) A military government; government by military chiefs and an army.
Stratographic (a.) Alt. of Stratographical
Stratographical (a.) Of or pertaining to stratography.
Stratography (n.) A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army.
Stratonic (a.) Of or pertaining to an army.
Stratotic (a.) Warlike; military.
Stratums (pl. ) of Stratum
Strata (pl. ) of Stratum
Stratum (n.) A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.
Stratum (n.) A bed or layer artificially made; a course.
Stratus (n.) A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. See Cloud.
Straught () imp. & p. p. of Stretch.
Straught (v. t.) To stretch; to make straight.
Straw (v. t.) To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
Straw (n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
Straw (n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
Straw (n.) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.
Strawberry (n.) A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, 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.
Strawboard (n.) Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
Straw-colored (a.) Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.
Straw-cutter (n.) An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
Strawed () imp. & p. p. of Straw.
Strawworm (n.) A caddice worm.
Strawy (a.) Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw.
Strayed (imp. & p. p.) of Stray
Straying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stray
Stray (a.) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
Stray (a.) To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
Stray (a.) Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
Stray (v. t.) To cause to stray.
Stray (v. i.) Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep.
Stray (n.) Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.
Stray (n.) The act of wandering or going astray.
Strayer (n.) One who strays; a wanderer.
Stre (n.) Straw.
Streak (v. t.) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
Streak (n.) A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.
Streak (n.) A strake.
Streak (n.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character.
Streak (n.) The rung or round of a ladder.
Streaked (imp. & p. p.) of Streak
Streaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Streak
Streak (v. t.) To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.
Streak (v. t.) With it as an object: To run swiftly.
Streaked (a.) Marked or variegated with stripes.
Streaked (a.) Uncomfortable; out of sorts.
Streaky (a.) Same as Streaked, 1.
Stream (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
Stream (n.) A beam or ray of light.
Stream (n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
Stream (n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
Streamed (imp. & p. p.) of Stream
Streaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stream
Stream (v. i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.
Stream (v. i.) To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
Stream (v. i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
Stream (v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
Stream (v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
Stream (v. t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
Stream (v. t.) To unfurl.
Streamer (n.) An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.
Streamer (n.) A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
Streamer (n.) A searcher for stream tin.
Streamful (a.) Abounding in streams, or in water.
Streaminess (n.) The state of being streamy; a trailing.
Streaming (a.) Sending forth streams.
Streaming (n.) The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.
Streaming (n.) The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for stream tin.
Streamless (a.) Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel.
Streamlet (n.) A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
Streamy (a.) Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful.
Streamy (a.) Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream.
Stree (n.) Straw.
Streek (v. t.) To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak.
Streel (v. i.) To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.
Streen (n.) See Strene.
Street (a.) Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.
Streetwalker (n.) A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers.
Streetward (n.) An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets.
Streetward (a.) Facing toward the street.
Streight (a., n., & adv.) See 2nd Strait.
Streighten (v. t.) See Straiten.
Strein (v. t.) To strain.
Streit (a.) Drawn.
Streit (a.) Close; narrow; strict.
Streite (adv.) Narrowly; strictly; straitly.
Strelitz (n. sing. & pl.) A soldier of the ancient Muscovite guard or Russian standing army; also, the guard itself.
Strelitzia (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers.