n. (Med.) Strabismus. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Strabismus + -meter. ] (Med.) An instrument for measuring the amount of strabismus. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to squint, fr. &unr_; distorted, squinting. ] (Med.) An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; squinting + &unr_; to cut. ] (Surg.) The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
v. t. To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of;
v. i.
a. Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ It. strada street or road + E. metrical. ] Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
The wolf spied out a straggling kid. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]
Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]
They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]