Vocabulary : Strifeful to Strike

Strifeful : Contentious; discordant.
Strigate : Having transverse bands of color.
Striges : The tribe of birds which comprises the owls.
Strigil : An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.
Strigillose : Set with stiff, slender bristles.
Strigine : Of or pertaining to owls; owl-like.
Strigment : Scraping; that which is scraped off.
Strigose : Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.
Strigous : Strigose.
Strike : A sudden finding of rich ore in mining; hence, any sudden success or good fortune, esp. financial. ;; Act of leveling all the pins with the first bowl; also, the score thus made. Sometimes called double spare. ;; Any actual or constructive striking at the pitched ball, three of which, if the ball is not hit fairly, cause the batter to be put out; hence, any of various acts or events which are ruled as equivalent to such a striking, as failing to strike at a ball so pitched that the batter should have struck at it. ;; Same as Ten-strike. ;; To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile. ;; To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef. ;; To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast. ;; To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars
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