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▸ noun:  (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
▸ noun:  (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
▸ noun:  (music, poetry) 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, etc.
▸ noun:  Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
▸ noun:  (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Treasure.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To urge with importunity; to press.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
▸ noun:  The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
▸ noun:  A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
▸ noun:  An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) The track of a deer.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.
▸ noun:  A surname.

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