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Show ST W . i ST The lark and linnet fing with rival note They firain their warbling throat *o welcome in the fpring Dryden Nor yet content fhe /frains her maljce more And adds new ills to thofe contriv'd before Dryd It is the worft fort of good hufbandry for afather not to ffrain himfelf a little for-his fon's breed ing Locke Qur words flow from us in a {mooth continue ftream, without thofe Prainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majefty of the hand, whic are fo much celebrated in the orators of G reece an Rome /]tt:':‘fimy Strain'd to the root, the ftooping foreft pour A ruftling thower of yet untimely leaves, 7y, mfon 6. To make ftrait or tenfe There can be no other meaning in this expref , fion, however fome may pretend to ffrain it. Swift Your way is to wreft and frain fome principles ~ maintained both by them and me, to a fenfe repugnant with their other known do&@rines. Wateriand 8. To force;; to conftrain ; to make uneaf or unnatural The lark-fings fo out of tune Straining harfh difcords and unpleafing tharps Shakefpeare He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirt Is forc'd and frained: in his looks appear A wild diftradted fiercenefs Denbam To STRAIN, @. 7 1. To make violent efforts To build his fortune I will frain a little Siraining upon the ftart Shake[peare's Henry V They frain That death may not them idly find t" atten Their certain laft, but work to meet their end Daniel Straining with too weak a wing We needs will write epiftles to the king Pope .2 To be filtered by compreffion Cafar thought that all fea fands ha natura fprings of frefh water : but it is the fea water ; b caufe the pit filled according to the meafure of th tide5 and the fea-water, pafling or flraining thro the fands, leaveth the faltnefs behind them Bacon . i STRAIX. 2. /. [from the verb. Aninjury by too much violence Credit is gained by cuftom, and feldom recover a firain5 but, if broken, is never well fet again Temple In all pain there is a deformity by a folution o t'ontinuity, as in cutting or a tendenc tion, as in convulfions or Prains ‘2, [rtenae defcent Saxon. to folu Grew Race to the genius and Jtrain of the boo Orpheus' felf may heave his hea From golden flumber on a be Of heap'd Elyfian flowers, and hea Such frains as would have won the ea And in foft mufick mourn the fall of man When the firft bold veffel dar'd the feas High on the ftern the Thracian rais'd his frai 6. Rank charaer 7. 'Turn tendency Twelve Trojanyouths, born of their nobleft frains 1 took alive; and, yet enrag'd, will empty all thei Chapman's Iliad Why doft thou falfely feig Thyfelf a Sidx?ey ? from whic{l' nooblefirm' that could fo far exalt the nam Waller and Charlemagne 3+ Hereditary difpofition Amongft thefe fwee knave an Prior all this cour tefy | the frain of man's bred out into baboon an monkey Shakefpeare Where one but goes abreaft. Shak., Troil. and Creff Fretum Magellanicum, or Magellan's ffraits The tain 2. Diftrefs ; difficulty The independent party, which abhorred all motions towards peace, were in as great ffreights as th other how to carry on their defigns Clarendon. It was impoffible to have adminiftered fuch advice to the king, in the ffreight he was in, which being purfued, might not have proved inconvenient Clarendon Thyfel Bred up in poverty and freights at home Loft in a defart here, and hunger-bit Milton's Paradife Regained Dryden inborn difpofition Thus Adam, fore befet, replied O Heav'n! in evil fireight this day I ftan Before my Judge Milton's Paradife Loff. Such take too high a ffrain at the firft, and ar magnanimous more than tract of years can uphold as was Scipio Africanus, of whom Livy faith ¢¢ ultima primis cedebant." Bacon #. / [from ffrain. ftrument of filtration Th excrementitiou throug doth i and hai Shav moiftur *Tis hard with me, whatever choice I make I muft not merit you, or muft forfake But in this freight to honour I'll be true And leave my fortune to the gods and you. Dryd Kings reduced to fireights, either by their own or by the negligence of their predeceffors, have bee always involved in dark and mean intrigues An in paffeth in bird a finer and more delicate ffrainer than i beafts; for feathers pafs through quills through fkin Bacon the goat's fhaggy beard, left thou too lat In vain fhouldft feck a ffraine The hufky terrene dregs fro The ftomach and inteftine the laéteal veflels the frainers Dawvenant Some modern authors, obferving what ffraits the have been put to in all ages to find out water enoug for Noah's flood, fay Noah's flcod was not univerfal, but a national inundation Burmer's Thesry Let no man who owns 2 providence grow defperate under any calamity or ffrair what{oever, bu to difpar purer muft. Philips are the prefs, an to feparate the pur emulfion from its feces Arbuthnot Thefe, when condens'd, the airy region pour On the dry earth in rain or gentle thowers Th' infinuating drops fink through the fand And pafs the porous frainers of the land. Blackm STRAIT Italian. adj [effroit French compofe the anguith of his. thoughts upon thi one confideration, that he comprehends not thof ftrange unaccountable methods: by which provi dence may difpofe of him Ceefar fee The fireights to which you 're driven know Sretto they are mor afraid to fe her, if they are laced as ffrair as they can poflibl be 2. Clofe ; intimate and as h Ulyfles made ufe of the pretence of natura Witnefles, like watches, g Juft as they "re fet, too faft or flow but the Soutb Cato's high worth;.is anxious for your life. Add 1. Narrow ; clofe ; not wide the church went forth unt Abbot the fPraits of the moun- Fudith The Saracens brought, together with their vic tories, their language and religion into all that coaf of Africk, even from Egypt to the freights of Gib raltar Brerewood on Languages Becaufe hereticks have a flrain of madnefs, h applied her with fome corporal chaftifements, whic with refpite of time might haply reduce her to goo order Hayward STRAI'NER the fhreights an Spenfer Honour travels in a ffreight fo narrow Wert one of us, if ftill thou doft retai The fame ill habits, the fame follies too Still thou art bound to vice, and fill a fiave They are afraid to meet her, if they have mifie And the long heroes of the Gallic Jfrain Plant garrifons to comman narrow paflages But thou who, lately of the common ffrain Shake[peare love Turn then to Pharamon STRAIT, 7. / 1. A narrow pafs, or frith While Argo faw her kindred tree Defcend from Pelion to the main. Pope's St. Cecil Thus far Tcan praife him ; he isof a noble frain e fprung A bell or a cannon may be heard beyond a hil which intercepts the fight of the founding body and founds are propagated as readily through crooke pipes as through ffraight ones Newton's Opticks Some future ffrain, in which the mufe fhall tel How fcience dwindles, and how volumes fwell Young to crooked, bu is then more properly written fraight [See STraIGHT. Dryd And, where in confcience they *re firaight lac'd *Tis ten to one that fide is caft Hudibras vein Of vital fpirits 4. Difficult ; diftrefsful 5. It is ufed in oppofitio Of Pluto, to have quite fet fre His half-regain'd Eurydice Milton Their heav'nly harps a lower ffrain began generation f approv'd valour He be approv'd in praétice culpable, Shak, Hena V1 Wilt thou love fuch a woman ? what, to mak thee an inftrument, and play falfe frains upon thee Shakefpeare Shak Proceed no fraiter *gainft our uncle Glo'fter Than from the evidence of good eftee 8. Manner of {peech or a&ion For 'tis a bond in men Shakefpeare's Timon You ftand like greyhounds in the flips g That lay too heavy on the commonwealth 5. Song ; note ; found 7. To puth beyond the proper extent Addifon Some certain edicts, and fome ffrait decree of Proverbs, the words wifdom" and righteoufnef are ufed fo fignify all religion and virtue Tillotf In our liturgy are as great firains of true fublim eloquence, as are any where to be found in our language Savift Macrobius fpeaks of Hippocrates® knowledge i very lofty ffrains Baker Dryden's Virgil Tillotfon fpoil the ffrain of a nation Accordin To frain his fetters with a ftricer care See they fuffer death But in their deaths remember they are men, ' Strain not the laws to make their torture grievous He now, forfooth, takes on him to refor 4. A ftyle or manner of fpeaking Thou, the more he varies forms, bewar Intemperance and luft breed difeafes, which pro pagated A bigger ftring more firained, and a lefler ftrin lefs firainedy may fall into the fame tone Bacon g, ST Law He, forgetting all former injuries, had receive that naughty Plexirtus into a ffraight degree of favour; his goodnefs being as apt to be deceived, a the other's craft was to deceive Sidne 3. Stri& ; rigorous Therefore hold I ffrait all thy commandments and all falfe ways I utterly abhor, Pfa/ms, Com. Pr Fugitives are not relieved by the profit of the lands in England, for there is a ffraighter order taken Spenfer firmity, to conceal the ffraits h in his thoughts She watches their time o and, if fhe can difcover tha Jreights or affliGion, fhe give was in a that tim Broonte need and adverfity they are in grea them fpecdy relief Zo StrarT. @. a. [from the noun. put to difficulties Of happ Bpyoloi 7o STRAI'TEN 1 To mak in Law T are's Winter's Tale w. 4. [from fra narrow The city of Sidon has a fecure haven, yet wit fomething a dangerous entrance, Sraitened on th north fide by the fea-ruined wall of the mole Sandys's Fourney i |