Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: STRONG'-VOIC-ED – STRUG'GLING
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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.
- 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.
- [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 of Strike, is obsolete.]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.]
- 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.]
- Manner of building; form; make; construction; as, the want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe. – Woodward.
- Manner of organization of animals and vegetables, &c.
- 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.
- In mineralogy, the particular arrangement of the integrant particles or molecules of a mineral. – Brongniart.
A stock of breeding mares. – Bailey.
STRUG'GLE, n.
- Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avoid an evil; properly, a violent effort with contortions of the body.
- Contest; contention; strife. An honest man might look upon the struggle with indifference. – Addison.
- 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.]
- Properly, to strive, or to make efforts with a twisting or with contortions of the body. Hence,
- 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.
- 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.