To straíne: to wring: to trusse: ro strike: to make thinne in cutting: to gather: to shaue: to wounde. Metis narrandi preslis stringere aliquid. Sil. To declare a thing shortly and in fewe wordes. Nullum vinculum ad stringendam fidem iureiurando maiotes arctius esse voluerunt. Cic. To binde. Animum patriæ strinxit pictatis imago. Vir. Pearsed his heart: mooued his mind. pectora tua stringuntur nostro delicto. Onid. Stringere srondes. Virg. To cutte off doughes, to shredde. Possunt etiam & folia ficulnea probè dari, si stringere arbores expediat. Colum. To pull off branches srom trees. with hande. Stringere lauri baccas. Virg. To gather hay berries. Stringere ripas. Virgil. To touth banckes in passing by: to beate againste. Metas stringere rota. Ouid. To touch the marke with the wheele in passing lightly by. Aequor stringitur aura. Ouid. The sea is a little mooued with the winde. Vnda stringitur Noto. Ouid. Stringere ensem. Virg. Liu. To drawe a sworde. Gladios stringunt manibus. Virg. Hunc primum leuis hasta strinxerat. Virg. Had wounded.

I. Lit.: te stringam ad carnarium, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 66: stringit vitta comas, Luc. 5, 143: caesariem crinali cultu, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 85: stricta matutino frigore vulnera, Liv. 22, 51: pectora pigro gelu, Luc. 4, 652: strictos insedimus amnes, Val. Fl. 1, 414: mare gelu stringi et consistere, Gell. 17, 8, 16: quercus in duas partes diducta, stricta denuo et cohaesa, having closed together, id. 15, 16, 4: habenam, to draw tight, Stat. Th. 11, 513: ferrum, Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 6.—

B. Transf. (through the intermediate idea of drawing close), to touch, touch upon, touch lightly or slightly, to graze (syn. tango): litus ama, et laevas stringat sine palmula cautes, Verg. A. 5, 163; cf.: stringebat summas ales miserabilis undas, Ov. M. 11, 733: aequor (aurā), id. ib. 4, 136: metas interiore rotā, id. Am. 3, 2, 12: latus, Prop. 3, 11 (4, 10), 24: vestigia canis rostro, Ov. M. 1, 536 et saep.: equos, to stroke, Charis. 84 P.: tela stringentia corpus, i. e. slightly touching, Verg. A. 10, 331; cf. Sen. Ben. 2, 6, 1: coluber Dente pedem strinxit, Ov. M. 11, 776: strictus ac recreatus ex vulnere in tempus, Flor. 4, 12, 44.—

2. To pull or strip off, to pluck off, cut off, clip off, prune, etc. (cf. destringo): oleam ubi nigra erit, stringito, Cato, R. R. 65, 1; so, oleam, Plin. 15, 2, 3, 12: bacam, Varr. R. R. 1, 55, 2: quernas glandes, Verg. G. 1, 305: folia ex arboribus, Caes. B. C. 3, 58; Liv. 23, 30, 3: frondes, Verg. E. 9, 61; Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 28: hordea, Verg. G. 1, 317: arbores, Col. 6, 3, 7: celeriter gladios strinxerunt, drew from the sheath, unsheathed, Caes. B. C. 3, 93: strictam aciem offerre, Verg. A. 6, 291: ensem, id. ib. 10, 577; so, gladios, id. ib. 12, 278; Ov. M. 7, 333: ensem, id. ib. 8, 207; 14, 296: ferrum, Liv. 7, 40 al.: cultrum, id. 7, 5, 5; 3, 50, 3; and poet. transf.: manum, to bare, Ov. Am. 1, 6, 14; id. Tr. 5, 2, 30 al.—

II. Trop.

A. Of speech, to touch upon, treat briefly, Sil. 8, 48.—Hence, to compress, abridge: narrationis loco rem stringat, Quint. 4, 2, 128 Spald.—

B. To hold in check, to rule, sway (syn. coërceo): quaecumque meo gens barbara nutu Stringitur, adveniat, Claud. B. Get. 371.—

C. To waste, consume, reduce: praeclaram stringat malus ingluvie rem, Hor. S. 1, 2, 8.—

D. (Acc. to I. B.) To touch, move, affect; esp. to affect painfully, to wound, pain: atque animum patriae strinxit pietatis imago, Verg. A. 9, 294: quam tua delicto stringantur pectora nostro, Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 21: nomen alicujus, id. ib. 2, 350.—

E. To draw in hostility, attack with: in hostes stringatur iambus, Ov. R. Am. 377: bellum, Flor. 3, 21, 1.—Hence, strictus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I.), drawn together, close, strait, tight, etc.

A. Lit.: laxaret pedem a stricto nodo, Liv. 24, 7, 5: duriora genti corpora, stricti artus, Tac. G. 30: strictissima janua, Ov. R. Am. 233: si strictior fuerit pedatura, Hyg. Grom. 3, 1: emplastrum, thick, Scrib. Comp. 45 fin.: venter, i. e. bound up, costive, Veg. 3, 16: strictior aura, more severe, colder, Aus. Idyll. 14, 3.—

B. Trop.

1. Of language, brief, concise: quo minus (Aeschines) strictus est, Quint. 10, 1, 77: qui (Demosthenes) est strictior multo (quam Cicero), id. 12, 10, 52.—

2. Of character, severe, strict: Catones, Manil. 5, 106: mentes, id. 1, 769: lex, Stat. S. 3, 5, 87.—

3. Rigid, exact (law Lat.): restitutio stricto jure non competebat, Dig. 29, 2, 85; 39, 3, 3 al.—Adv.: strictē and strictim, closely, tightly: in foramen conicies, Pall. Mart. 8, 2.—Comp., Pall. 1, 6.—Sup., Gell. 16, 3, 4.—

2. Fig., accurately: strictius interpretari, Dig. 8, 2, 20.