Obs. In later use only Sc. Forms: 1 (ʓi)strýnd, 3 strund, strend, 5–6 strynd(e, 3–6 strind, 7, 9 strine, 9 stryne, streind. See also STRAND sb.3 [OE. (Anglian) strýnd fem., also ʓestréond, ʓistrýnd, f. (ʓe)stríenan to produce, beget: see STRENE v. Cf. STRAIN sb.1]
1. Generation, descent, lineage; a race, breed, stock; offspring, progeny; = STRAIN sb.1 4–7.
c. 900. Bæda’s Hist., V. vii. (1890), 406. Se wæs eac of ðære cynelican strynde [L. de stirpe regia].
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. xix. 28. Sittes ʓie ofer seatla tuelf doemende twoelf strynda israeles.
c. 1000. Rit. Dunelm. (Surtees), 29. Progeniem, soð ʓistrynd.
c. 1205. Lay., 2736. Swiðe riche cnihten of Troinisce cunne þa weoren in Lumbardie of heore strund.
a. 1225. Juliana, 55. Wel bi semeð þe … to beo streon of a swuch strunde.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter ix. 27 [x. 6]. Fra strend in strende [L. a generatione in generationem].
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Orig. Cron., I. vii. 332. In Egipt … Giandis grew, and of þat strynd Come Anachyn.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VI. x. 47. Heir was the noble kyn and ancyant strynd, The maist dochty lynage sprang be kynd Fra king Teucer.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xxiv. 13. Degenerat Stewartis of ane Hieland strynde.
1603. Proph. of Merlin (Bannatyne Club), 12. That commed are of strodlings strynd.
2. An inherited quality or disposition; individual nature or character; = STRAIN sb.1 8.
1508. Dunbar, Flyting, 55. Thy trechour tung hes tane ane heland strynd.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VIII. viii. 129. Ne war that of the blude of this ilk land Admixit standis he, taikand sum strynd, Apone his moderis syd, of Sabyn kynd.
a. 1568. A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.), iii. 5. For, knew ȝe wemenis natur, course, and strynd, Ȝe wald nocht be so trew to thair vntrewth.
1710. Ruddiman, Gloss. Douglas’ Æneis, s.v., The word strynd or strain is Metaphorically used for the resemblance of the features of the body, or of the dispositions of the mind. As we say, He has a strynd or strain of his Grand-Father, i. e. resembles him. [Jam. 1808 adds: It is also said, He takes a streind of such an one.]
a. 1807. J. Skinner, Amusem. Leis. Hours (1809), 95. And do ’t he will, I ken his stryne, As far ’s he can.
3. (In form strine.) = STRAIN sb.1 3.
a. 1667. Skinner, Etymol., A cocks Stride, vel, ut melius in agro Linc. efferunt, a cocks Strine, Aristot. χάλαζαι seu Grandines.
1886. S. W. Linc. Gloss., Strine.
