A small stream.

The act of one who strips.

A division of passerine birds including the humming birds, swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificial group.

An effort; a striving.

Striven.

p. p. of Strive.

One who strives.

a. n. from Strive.

One of the flutings of a column.

To wander about idly and vacantly.

A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae. A mature tapeworm.

Of or pertaining to a strobile or cone. Producing strobiles.

The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian.

A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.

Shaped like a strobile.

Of or pertaining to a strobile; strobilaceous; strobiliform; as, strobiline fruits.

An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.

A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc.

imp. of Stride.

To strike.

One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking.

The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest.

The act of rubbing gently with the hand, or of smoothing; a stroke.

A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.

One who strolls; a vagrant.

The connective tissue or supporting framework of an organ; as, the stroma of the kidney. The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell.

Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.

The history of the formation of stratified rocks.

Any marine univalve mollusk of the genus Strombus and allied genera. See Conch, and Strombus.

A fossil shell of the genus Strombus.

Of, pertaining to, or like, Strombus.

Formed or shaped like a top.

A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called conch shells, or conchs. See Conch.

A steel-gray mineral of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of silver and copper.

Strand; beach.

Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.

Having a vigorous mind; esp., having or affecting masculine qualities of mind; -- said of women.

An acid.

A box of rigid and durable construction fitted with a lock, used for the purpose of protecting valuable items, such as jewelry or money.

Violence; force; power.

A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.

Somewhat strong.

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.

Strongyloid.

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. A strongyloid worm.

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.

Strontia.

Strontium carbonate, a mineral of a white, greenish, or yellowish color, usually occurring in fibrous massive forms, but sometimes in prismatic crystals.

Of or pertaining to strontium; containing, or designating the compounds of, strontium.

Strontic.

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.

A stroke.

To swell out; to strut.

A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.

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.

Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, strophes.

Furnished with a strophiole, or caruncle, or that which resembles it.

A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.

See Red-gum, 1.

Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.

To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.

imp. of Strive.

Same as Strew.

To stroll.

p. p. of Strow.

To destroy.

imp. p. p. of Strike.

p. p. of Strike.

Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error.

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.

Without a definite structure, or arrangement of parts; without organization; devoid of cells; homogeneous; as, a structureless membrane.

One who forms structures; a builder; a constructor.

A stock of breeding mares.

A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

One who struggles.

A bar so placed as to resist weight.

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.

Scrofula.

Scrofulous; strumous.

Strumous.

Scrofulous; having struma.

The state of being strumous.

To debauch.

A rude musical instrument somewhat like a cittern.

imp. p. p. of String.

Spirituous liquor.

A kind of worsted braid, about an inch broad.

A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.

Protuberant.

A genus of birds including the African ostriches.

Same as Struthiones.

A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches. In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to Ratitae, or Dromaeognathae.

Struthious.

Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe.

One who struts.

a. n. from Strut, v.

A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.

Strychnine.

Of or pertaining to strychnine; produced by strychnine; as, strychnic compounds; strychnic poisoning used to designate an acid, called also igasuric acid.

A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina.

A genus of tropical trees and shrubs of the family Loganiaceae. See Nux vomica.

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, obtained by the action of acetic acid and potassium nitrite on uric acid, as a yellow crystalline substance, with a bitter, astringent taste.

To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.

Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.

The quality or state of being stubbed.

The state of being stubby.

The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.

Covered with stubble.

Covered with stubble; stubbled.

Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.

Abounding with stubs.

To overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster.

One who stuccoes.

Work done in stucco.

A thrust.

Self-important and supercilious, /onceited; vain; arrogant.

A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook.

To adorn with shining studs, or knobs.