Crossword-Solution: STRIG 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The lamiæ, the strigæ, the sorcerers whom they accused of sucking the blood of living persons, and of thus causing their death, the magicians who were said to cause the death of new-born children by charms and malignant spells, are nothing less than what we understand by the name of vampires; even were it to be owned that these lamiæ and strigæ have really existed, which we do not believe can ever be well proved.

Ovid, speaking of the strigæ, describes them as dangerous birds, which fly by night, and seek for infants to devour them and nourish themselves with their blood.[475] These prejudices had taken such deep root in the minds of the barbarous people that they put to death persons suspected of being strigæ, or sorceresses, and of eating people alive.

Joyce, you know the number of nice young men I came across in my day (naming half a dozen of them), and,' said she--nodding towards the bride-groom, who was walking by the car a few perches in front--'isn't it a heart-scald that at the end of all I have now to walk off with that streel of a devil.' Strickle; a scythe-sharpener covered with emery, (Simmons: Armagh.) Strig; the _strippings_ or milk that comes last from a cow.

The Lamiæ of the Greeks and the Strigæ of the Romans evidently belonged to the same category, while the later Tympanites of the Greeks were persons who had died while under the ban of the church and were therefore doomed to become vampires.

STRIGA, str[=i]'ga, _n._ (_bot_.) a sharp bristle or hair-like scale: a stripe, stria: the flute of a column:--_pl._ STR[=I]'GÆ.--_adjs._ STR[=I]'GATE, STR[=I]'GOSE, having strigæ: streaked; STRIG'ILOSE, minutely strigose.