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Strain (?), n. [See
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He is of a noble
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With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another
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2. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
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Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the
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3. Rank; a sort. “The common
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4. (Hort.) A cultural subvariety that is only slightly differentiated.
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Strain, v. t.
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2. (Mech.) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.
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3. To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
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He sweats,
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They
To welcome in the spring.
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4. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.
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There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to
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5. To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
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6. To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.
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Prudes decayed about may track,
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7. To squeeze; to press closely.
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Evander with a close embrace
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8. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
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He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth
Is forced and
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The quality of mercy is not
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9. To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.
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Note, if your lady
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10. To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.
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Strain (str&ā;n), v. i. 1. To make violent efforts. “
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To build his fortune I will
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2. To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.
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Strain, n. 1. The act of straining, or the state of being strained. Specifically: --
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Whether any poet of our country since Shakespeare has exerted a greater variety of powers with less
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Credit is gained by custom, and seldom recovers a
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2. (Mus.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
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Their heavenly harps a lower
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3. Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career. “A
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Such take too high a
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The genius and
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It [Pilgrim's Progress] seems a novelty, and yet contains
Nothing but sound and honest gospel
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4. Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st
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Because heretics have a
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