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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.

Strontia

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.

Strontianite

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

Strontic

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

Strontium

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.

Strop

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

Strophanthus

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

Strophe

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

Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, strophes.

Strophiole

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

Stroud

A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.

Strouding

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

Strout

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

Structural

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

Structure

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

Structured

Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.

Structureless

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

Structurist

One who forms structures; a builder; a constructor.

Strude

A stock of breeding mares.

Struggle

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

Strull

A bar so placed as to resist weight.

Strum

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.

Strumstrum

A rude musical instrument somewhat like a cittern.

Struntian

A kind of worsted braid, about an inch broad.

Struse

A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.

Struthio

A genus of birds including the African ostriches.

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.

Struvite

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

Strychnic

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

Strychnine

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.

Strychnos

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

Stryphnic

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.

Stub

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

Stubbed

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

Stubble

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

Stubbly

Covered with stubble; stubbled.

Stubborn

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.

Stucco

To overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster.

Stuck-up

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

Stuckle

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

Stud

To adorn with shining studs, or knobs.

Studbook

A genealogical register of a particular breed or stud of horses, esp. thoroughbreds.

Studdery

A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud.

Studding

Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.

Student

A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student.

Studfish

Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, as Fundulus catenatus.

Studied

Closely examined; read with diligence and attention; made the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson.

Studio

The working room of an artist.

Studious

Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.

Study

To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages.

Stufa

A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.

Stuff

To feed gluttonously; to cram.

Stuffer

One who, or that which, stuffs.

Stuffing

That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.

Stuffy

Stout; mettlesome; resolute.

Stull

A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.

Stulm

A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.

Stulp

A short, stout post used for any purpose, a to mark a boundary.

Stultification

The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.

Stultify

To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.

Stultiloquent

Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling.

Stum

To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.

Stumble

A trip in walking or running.

Stump

To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.

Stumpage

Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared.

Stumpy

Full of stumps; hard; strong.

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