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 ]

v. t. To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Straddled p. pr. & vb. n. Straddling ] [ Freq. from the root of stride. ] 1. To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a “put” and a “call, ” i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities. [ Broker's Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ imp. & p. p. Straggled p. pr. & vb. n. Straggling ] [ Freq. of OE. straken to roam, to stroke. See Stroke, v. t. ] 1. To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wolf spied out a straggling kid. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals. “Straggling pistol shots.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]