[var. of OSTRICH, q.v.; and cf. Pr. estruz.]
† 1. = OSTRICH. Obs.
c. 1450. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 585. Fungus, a ffynch [vel an Estrich, secundum quosdam].
a. 1528. Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe, 478. The estryge, that wyll eate An horshowe.
1579. Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 124. The Estrich disgesteth harde yron to preserue his health.
1606. Shaks., 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.
a. 1653. G. Daniel, Idyll, iv. 7. The Estrich may digest A Broken Rocke, and on a Plough-Share feast.
1687. A. Lovell, trans. Bergerac’s Com. Hist. Moon, II. 72. A kind of Estridge.
2. (See quot.)
1842. Brande, Dict. Sc., Estrich, the commercial name of the fine down of the ostrich.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Estridge, the fine soft down which lies under the feathers of the ostrich.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1460. Will of Tame (Somerset Ho.). Ciphum cum esterige-feders.
a. 1528. Skelton, Speke Parrot, 80. Ic dien serueth for the erstrych fether.
1613. S. Rowlands, Paire of Spy-Knaves, B iij a. Point the Feather-maker not to faile To plume my head with his best Estridge tayle.
a. 1634. Randolph, Muses Looking-gl., III. iii. He shall eat something else too that rides here; Ile try his estridg stomack.
1634. S. R., Noble Soldier, IV. i. Bullen, O. Pl., I. 307. Taught me Estridge-like, To digest Iron and Steele.
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. V., cxcvii. Everie Bow … May weare a Scarfe, each Shaft, an Estrich Plume.
1685. [see ESTERY FEATHER].
1715. trans. Pancirollus’ Rerum Mem., II. i. 276. This Tree bears a Flower … about the bigness of an Estrich-Egg.
1812. J. Smyth, Pract. of Customs, 255. Ostrich, or Estridge wool, is used as a substitute for beaver.
