Word Meanings - BY-STROKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An accidental or a slyly given stroke.

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• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• SLYLY
  In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily. Honestly and slyly he it spent. Chaucer.
• STROKESMAN
  The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• ACCIDENTALNESS
  The quality of being accidental; casualness.
• ACCIDENTALITY
  The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. Coleridge.
• ACCIDENTALISM
  Accidental character or effect. Ruskin.
• STROKE
  Struck.
• ACCIDENTAL
  1. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit. 2. Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play. Accidental chords
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• BY-STROKE
  An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
• SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
  In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
• COUNTERSTROKE
  A stroke or blow in return. Spenser.
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
• DEAD-STROKE
  Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat. Dead-stroke hammer , a power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.
• TRUDGEN STROKE
  A racing stroke in which a double over-arm motion is used; -- so called from its use by an amateur named Trudgen, but often erroneously written trudgeon.
• UPSTROKE
  An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made. Some upstroke of an Alpha and Omega. Mrs. Browning.
• INSTROKE
  An inward stroke; specif., in a steam or other engine, a stroke in which the piston is moving away from the crank shaft; -- opposed to outstroke.
• HANDYSTROKE
  A blow with the hand.
• DOWNSTROKE
  A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.
• SUNSTROKE
  Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally;