Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STRONG'-VOIC-ED, a.

Having great strength of voice. – Scott.

STRONG'-WA-TER, n. [strong and water.]

Distilled or ardent spirits. [Not in use.] – Bacon.

STRON'TIAN, or STRON-TIT'IC, a.

Pertaining to strontian.

STRON'TIAN, n. [from Strontian, in Argyleshire, where it was first found.]

An earth which, when pure and dry, is perfectly white, and resembles baryte in many of its properties. It is a compound of oxygen and a base to which is given the name strontium, in the proportion of 16 per cent of the former, to 84 per cent, of the latter. – Davy.

STRON'TIAN-ITE, n.

Carbonate of strontian, a mineral that occurs massive, fibrous, stellated, and crystalized in the form of a hexahedral prism, modified on the edges, or terminated by a pyramid. – Phillips. Prismatic baryte, a species of heavy spar. – Ure.

STRON'TI-UM, n.

The base of strontian. – Davy.

STROOK, v.

for Struck. [Not in use.]

STROP, n.

1. A strap. [See Strap.] This orthography is particularly used for a strip of leather used for sharpening razors and giving them a fine smooth edge; a razor-strop. But strap is preferable.
2. [Sp. estrovo.] A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it. – Mar. Dict.

STRO'PHE, or STRO'PHY, n. [Fr. strophe; It. strofa, strofe; Gr. στροφη, a turn, from στρεφω, to turn.]

In Greek poetry, a stanza; the first member of a poem. This is succeeded by a similar stanza called antistrophy.

STRO'PHI-O-LATE, or STRO'PHI-O-LA-TED, a. [L. strophium, a garland.]

Furnished with a garland, or that which resembles a garland. – Smith.

STROUT, v.i. [for strut.]

To swell; to puff out. [Not in use.] – Bacon.

STROVE, v. [pret. of Strive.]

STROW, v. [is only a different orthography of Strew. See Strew.]

STROWL, v. [or n. For Stroll, is not in use. See Stroll.]

STROY, v. [for Destroy, is not in use. See Destroy.]

STRUCK, v. [pret. and pp. of Strike. See Strike.]

STRUCK'EN, pp. [the old pp. of Strike, is obsolete.]

STRUC'TUR-AL, a.

Pertaining to structure. – Marshall Hall.

STRUC'TURE, n. [Fr. from L. structura, from struo, (for strugo,) to set or lay; It. struttura.]

1. Act of building; practice of erecting buildings. His son builds on and never is content, / Till the last farthing is in structure spent. – Dryden. [Rarely used.]
2. Manner of building; form; make; construction; as, the want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe. – Woodward.
3. Manner of organization of animals and vegetables, &c.
4. A building of any kind, but chiefly a building of some size or of magnificence; an edifice. The iron bridge over the Seine in Paris, is a beautiful structure. There stands a structure of majestic frame. – Pope.
5. In mineralogy, the particular arrangement of the integrant particles or molecules of a mineral. – Brongniart.

STRUDE, or STRODE, n.

A stock of breeding mares. – Bailey.

STRUG'GLE, n.

1. Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avoid an evil; properly, a violent effort with contortions of the body.
2. Contest; contention; strife. An honest man might look upon the struggle with indifference. – Addison.
3. Agony; contortions of extreme distress.

STRUG'GLE, v.i. [This word may be formed on the root of stretch, right, &c., which signifies to strain; or more directly on the same elements in L. rugo, to wrinkle, and Eng. wriggle. In W. ystreiglaw, is to turn.]

1. Properly, to strive, or to make efforts with a twisting or with contortions of the body. Hence,
2. To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend; as, to struggle to save life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle against the stream; to struggle with adversity.
3. To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress. 'Tis wisdom to beware, / And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. – Dryden.

STRUG'GLER, n.

One who struggles, strives or contends.

STRUG'GLING, n.

The act of striving; vehement or earnest effort.

STRUG'GLING, ppr.

Making great efforts; using violent exertions; affected with contortions.