n. [ See Stride. ] A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride. [ Prov. Eng. ] Howitt. [ 1913 Webster ]
This striding place is called the Strid. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step;
God never meant that man should scale the heavens
By strides of human wisdom. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
I mean to stride your steed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Mars in the middle of the shining shield
Is graved, and strides along the liquid field. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. stridens, -entis, p. pr. of stridere to make a grating or creaking noise. ] Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. “A strident voice.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ L., from stridere to make any harsh, grating, or creaking sound. ] A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ See Stridulous. ] To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically (Zool.), to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of stridulating. Specifically: (Zool.)
☞ The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong nervures of the fore wings. Many grasshoppers stridulate by rubbing the hind legs across strong nervures on the fore wings. The green grasshoppers and katydids stridulate by means of special organs at the base of the fore wings. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ NL. ] That which stridulates. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]