stridere

stridĕre, stridēre [CL] 1 to make a strident, penetrating, or shrill noise. garrio voce carens rauco cum murmure stridens Aldh. Aen. 21 (Lima) 5; ne dentes strideant fuscati peste maligna Bonif. Aen. prol. 18; ~entibus, gryllendum GlP 733; diversarum rerum ratiocinationes conglobans ad instiganda vestri pectoris precordia ~ente calamo percurram W. Malm. GP V 192; stridunt deinde fores, es sonat, arma strepunt L. Durh. Dial. II 464; circa pedes ferrum durat, ~unt catene Ailr. Sanct. 795D; plaustrum ~et onustum feno G. Hoyland Serm. 88C; ~ebant ad lapides platearum ille bige ferrate W. Fitzst. Thom. 19 p. 31; dum adhuc in scintillis est, facillime opprimitur; cum vero flammis jam ~entibus ‥ robur excreverit, difficilius extinguitur Gir. EH I 7; fulmen [Jovis] ‥ urit, ~it, afflat Natura Deorum 15; nube tamen quociens extinguitur ignis aquosa, / fit stridor, candens lamina stridet aqua Neckam DS IV 176. 2 (of person or animal, also fig.) to produce a shrill utterance or a grating, squeaking sound (e. g. by gnashing teeth) (also w. internal acc.); b (transf., of language or sim.); c (w. mus. instrument). elefanti barriunt vel ~unt Aldh. PR 131; serpens sibilium, bos balatum ‥ horrisonis vocibus ~ebant [gl.: scriccettan] Felix Guthl. 36; 793 nil audiet nisi voces flentium et ~entium dentibus horrorem Alcuin Ep. 18; cum ‥ vinculis astrictus dentibus ~eret V. Gund. 11; Turchi ‥ nescio quid dirum ~entes ululatibus in caelum actis diffugere W. Malm. GR IV 357; coram omni plebe dentibus ~ere ‥ cepit Id. GP IV 142; pauper loquens male stridet, / dives ‥ / semper pulcre loquitur Walt. Wimb. Van. 30.  b tota lingua Nordanhimbrorum, et maxime in Eboraco, ita inconditum ~et ut nichil nos australes intelligere possimus W. Malm. GP III 99; nomina scribere ultro refugio, quia barbarum quiddam ~unt Ib. IV 186.  c stridentem cannula / me ‥ / ad celum trahite de carnis casula Walt. Wimb. Palpo 193. 3 (in list of words said to belong variably to second or third conjugation). ferveo, ~eo, oleo, tueor Abbo QG 14 (32).