p. strāc, pl. stricon; pp. stricen. I. to stroke, smooth, rub, wipe :-- Ne delfe hȳ nān man mid īsene and mid wætere ne þweá, acstrīce hȳ mid clāde clǣne, Lchdm. iii. 30, 24. [Baldulf lette striken to þan bare lichen his bærd and his chinne had his beard shaved of quite smoothly. Laym. 20303. To make murrour bryȝt. Stryke theron blak sope, Rel. Ant. i. 108, 23 (15th cent.). StrekyUNCERTAIN or make pleyne complano, slrekyUNCERTAIN or make playne by mesure hostio, strekyUNCERTAIN, as menn do cattys palmito, Prompt. Parhostiare, Cath; Ang. 369. This pecke to conteyne stryken with a strykell as mutche as cur standerd pecke holdeth upheaped, ib. note I. To stryke a bed=to make it smooth, is quoted by Halliwell, who gives strike as a Devonshire word for to rub gently. O. H. Ger. strīhhan linere, fovere. Cf. Icel. strjúka to stroke, rub, wipe: Dan. stryge.] II. to make a stroke, III. to go, move, run :-- Būlon dæm rodere de dās rūman gesceaft ǣghwylce dæge ūtan ymbhwyrfeþ, strīceþ ymbūtan, Met. 20, 140. [Striked a stream ut of ꝥ stanene þruh, Kath. 122, 2479. Comen alle strikinde of eauer euch strete fit ex omni civitate concursus, 35, 732. Hamun him to strac (wende to, 2nd MS.), Laym. 9318. Faraon strac inn affterr Godes follc, Orm. 14810. ꝥ blod strac adun of hire bodí, Marh. 5, 34: 11, 7. Striken men þiderward, 17, 31. Þe strunden þe striken (ran) adun of þine fet, O. E. Homl. i. 187, 28. A mous . . . stroke forth sternly and stode biforn hem alle, Piers P. prol. 183. See also Halliwell, strike, strike (2). The word is still used of motion as in to strike across a country. O. H. Ger. strīhhan ire, meare: Ger. streichen to move, rush, rove. Cf. Icel. strjúka to go, rush: Dan. stryge to go, stryge Landet orn to stroll about the country.] strican