Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Old spellings of strain, strainable.

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Examples

  • Showing hir streight toes as it were incereating hir fingers to handle and streine them, the rest of hir bodie aunswerable to the perfections of these seuerall proportions.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

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