A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.
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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.
A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.
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.
A stallion, esp. one kept for breeding.
A genealogical register of a particular breed or stud of horses, esp. thoroughbreds.
A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud.
Material for studs, or joists; studs, or joists, collectively; studs.
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.
A body of students.
The state of being a student.
Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, as Fundulus catenatus.
Closely examined; read with diligence and attention; made the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson.
In a studied manner.
A student.
The working room of an artist.
Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.
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.
A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.
To feed gluttonously; to cram.
One who, or that which, stuffs.
The quality of being stuffy.
That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.
Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
Stucco.
A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones.
A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.
A short, stout post used for any purpose, a to mark a boundary.
The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.
One who stultifies.
To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.
Silly talk; babbling.
Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling.
Foolish talk; silly discource; babbling.
Foolish; silly.
To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
A trip in walking or running.
One who stumbles.
Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error.
A stumbling-block.
In a stumbling manner.
To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
Having a short, thick tail.
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.
One who stumps.
The state of being stumpy.
Full of stumps; hard; strong.
The condition of being stunned.
One of a large sect of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship.
imp. p. p. of Sting.
imp. p. p. of Stink.
One who, or that which, stuns.
Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.
A contraction of Studding sail.
A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill, strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat.
Dwarfed.
Stuntedness; brevity.
See 1st Stupe.
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