Strong (superl.) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.
Stronghand (n.) Violence; force; power.
Stronghold (n.) A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
Strongish (a.) Somewhat strong.
Strongly (adv.) In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
Strong-minded (a.) Having a vigorous mind; esp., having or affecting masculine qualities of mind; -- said of women.
Strong-water (n.) An acid.
Strong-water (n.) Distilled or ardent spirits; intoxicating liquor.
Strongylid (a. & n.) Strongyloid.
Strongyloid (a.) Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious.
Strongyloid (n.) A strongyloid worm.
Strontia (n.) An earth of a white color resembling lime in appearance, and baryta in many of its properties. It is an oxide of the metal strontium.
Strontian (n.) Strontia.
Strontianite (n.) Strontium carbonate, a mineral of a white, greenish, or yellowish color, usually occurring in fibrous massive forms, but sometimes in prismatic crystals.
Strontic (a.) Of or pertaining to strontium; containing, or designating the compounds of, strontium.
Strontitic (a.) Strontic.
Strontium (n.) A metallic element of the calcium group, always naturally occurring combined, as in the minerals strontianite, celestite, etc. It is isolated as a yellowish metal, somewhat malleable but harder than calcium. It is chiefly employed (as in the nitrate) to color pyrotechnic flames red. Symbol Sr. Atomic weight 87.3.
Strontium (n.) A radioactive isotope of strontium produced by certain nuclear reactions, and constituting one of the prominent harmful components of radioactive fallout from nuclear explosions; also called radiostrontium. It has a half-life of 28 years.
Strook () imp. of Strike.
Strook (n.) A stroke.
Stroot (v. i.) To swell out; to strut.
Strop (n.) A strap; specifically, same as Strap, 3.
Stropped (imp. & p. p.) of Strop
Stropping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strop
Strop (v. t.) To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.
Strop (n.) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
Strophanthus (n.) A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.
Strophes (pl. ) of Strophe
Strophe (n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.
Strophic (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, strophes.
Strophiolate (a.) Alt. of Strophiolated
Strophiolated (a.) Furnished with a strophiole, or caruncle, or that which resembles it.
Strophiole (n.) A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.
Strophulus (n.) See Red-gum, 1.
Stroud (n.) A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.
Strouding (n.) Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.
Strout (v. i.) To swell; to puff out; to project.
Strout (v. t.) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.
Strove () imp. of Strive.
Strowed (imp.) of Strow
Strown (p. p.) of Strow
Strowed () of Strow
Strow (v. t.) Same as Strew.
Strowl (v. i.) To stroll.
Strown () p. p. of Strow.
Stroy (v. i.) To destroy.
Struck () imp. & p. p. of Strike.
Strucken () p. p. of Strike.
Structural (a.) Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error.
Structural (a.) Of or pertaining to organit structure; as, a structural element or cell; the structural peculiarities of an animal or a plant.
Structure (n.) The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.
Structure (n.) Manner of building; form; make; construction.
Structure (n.) Arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body; as, the structure of a rock or a mineral; the structure of a sentence.
Structure (n.) Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure.
Structure (n.) That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.
Structured (a.) Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.
Structureless (a.) Without a definite structure, or arrangement of parts; without organization; devoid of cells; homogeneous; as, a structureless membrane.
Structurist (n.) One who forms structures; a builder; a constructor.
Strude (n.) A stock of breeding mares.
Struggled (imp. & p. p.) of Struggle
Struggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Struggle
Struggle (v. i.) To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
Struggle (v. i.) To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity.
Struggle (v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
Struggle (n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
Struggle (n.) Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
Struggle (n.) Contest; contention; strife.
Struggler (n.) One who struggles.
Strull (n.) A bar so placed as to resist weight.
Strummed (imp. & p. p.) of Strum
Strumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strum
Strum (v. t. & i.) To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.
Struma (n.) Scrofula.
Struma (n.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.
Strumatic (a.) Scrofulous; strumous.
Strumose (a.) Strumous.
Strumose (a.) Having a struma.
Strumous (a.) Scrofulous; having struma.
Strumousness (n.) The state of being strumous.
Strumpet (n.) A prostitute; a harlot.
Strumpet (a.) Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet.
Strumpet (v. t.) To debauch.
Strumpet (v. t.) To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander.
Strumstrum (n.) A rude musical instrument somewhat like a cittern.
Strung () imp. & p. p. of String.
Strunt (n.) Spirituous liquor.
Struntian (n.) A kind of worsted braid, about an inch broad.
Struse (n.) A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.
Strutted (imp. & p. p.) of Strut
Strutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strut
Strut (v. t.) To swell; to bulge out.
Strut (v. t.) To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.
Strut (n.) The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.
Strut (n.) In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof.
Strut (n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.
Strut (v. t.) To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.
Strut (a.) Protuberant.
Struthian (a.) Struthious.
Struthiones (pl. ) of Struthio
Struthio (n.) A genus of birds including the African ostriches.