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ˈestrich, ˈestridge
[var. of ostrich, q.v.; and cf. Pr. estruz.]
†1. = ostrich. Obs.
c1450Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 585 Fungus, a ffynch [vel an Estrich, secundum quosdam]. a1528Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe 478 The estryge, that wyll eate An horshowe. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 124 The Estrich disgesteth harde yron to preserue his health. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. xiii. 197 To be furious, Is to be frighted out of feare, and in that moode The Doue will pecke the Estridge. a1653G. Daniel Idyll iv. 7 The Estrich may digest A Broken Rocke, and on a Plough-Share feast. 1687A. Lovell tr. Bergerac's Com. Hist. Moon II. 72 A kind of Estridge.
2. (See quot.)
1842Brande Dict. Sc., Estrich, the commercial name of the fine down of the ostrich. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade. Estridge, the fine soft down which lies under the feathers of the ostrich.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1460Will of Tame (Somerset Ho.), Ciphum cum esterigefeders. a1528Skelton Speke Parrot 80 Ic dien serueth for the erstrych fether. 1613S. Rowlands Paire of Spy-Knaves B iij a, Point the Feather-maker not to faile To plume my head with his best Estridge tayle. a1634Randolph Muses Looking-gl. iii. iii, He shall eat something else too that rides here; Ile try his estridg stomack. 1634S. R. Noble Soldier iv. i. Bullen O. Pl. I. 307 Taught me Estridge-like, To digest Iron and Steele. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, cxcvii, Everie Bow..May weare a Scarfe, each Shaft, an Estrich Plume. 1685[see estery feather]. 1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. II. i. 276 This Tree bears a Flower..about the bigness of an Estrich-Egg. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs 255 Ostrich, or Estridge wool, is used as a substitute for beaver. |