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A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament.

• Strayer
  One who strays; a wanderer.
• Stringer
  One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
• Strychnine
  A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystallin
• Straight-joint
  Having straight joints.
• Streek
  To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak.
• Strisores
  A division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificial group.
• STRANGLEHOLD
  In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.
• Straint
  Overexertion; excessive tension; strain.
• Strength
  The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
• Stroboscope
  An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.
• STRIATESTRIATED
  Marked with striaæ, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.
• Stramazoun
  A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword.
• Strepsipteran
  One of the Strepsiptera.
• Stromb
  Any marine univalve mollusk of the genus Strombus and allied genera. See Conch, and Strombus.
• Strangler
  One who, or that which, strangles.
• Stretto
  The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue.
• Strontia
  An earth of a white color resembling lime in appearance, and baryta in many of its properties. It is an oxide of the metal strontium.
• Strapwork
  A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.
• Stricken
  Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.
• Strophiolated
  Furnished with a strophiole, or caruncle, or that which resembles it.

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