Stricture

·noun A stroke; a glance; a touch.

II. Stricture ·noun Strictness.

III. Stricture ·noun A touch of adverse criticism; censure.

IV. Stricture ·noun A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. ·cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic.