Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STRU'MA, n. [L.]

Scrofulous; the king's evil; a specific morbid condition, considered by many as a peculiar sort of inflammation, manifested, in very many cases, by an indolent enlargement, which sometimes suppurates, but slowly and imperfectly, and heals with difficulty.

STRU'MOUS, a.

Scrofulous; having struma.

STRUM'PET, a.

Like a strumpet; false; inconstant. – Shak.

STRUM'PET, n. [Ir. stribrid, striopach.]

A prostitute.

STRUM'PET, v.t.

To debauch. – Shak.

STRUNG, v. [pret. of String.]

STRUT, n.¹

A lofty proud step or walk with the head erect; affectation of dignity in walking.

STRUT, n.²

In architecture, a piece of timber obliquely placed from a king or queen post to support a rafter, sometimes called a brace. – Brande.

STRUT, v.i. [G. strotzen; Dan. strutter.]

1. To walk with a lofty proud gait and erect head; to walk with affected dignity. Does he not hold up his head and strut in his gait? – Shak.
2. To swell; to protuberate. The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. – Dryden. [Not used.]

STRU'THI-OUS, a. [L. struthio.]

Pertaining to or like the ostrich.

STRUT'TER, n.

One who struts. – Swift.

STRUT'TING, n.

The act of walking with a proud gait.

STRUT'TING, ppr.

Walking with a lofty gait and erect head.

STRUT'TING-LY, adv.

With a proud lofty step; boastingly.

STRYCH'NI-A, n. [or STRYCH'NI-NA, or STRYCH'NINE. Gr. στρύχνος, an ancient Greek name for several plants, most of which were narcotics.]

A vegetable alkaloid, the sole active principle of Strychnos Tieuté, the most active of the Java Poisons, and one of the active principles of Strychnos Ignatii, Nux-vomica, Str. colubrina, etc. This alkaloid has an intensely bitter taste, leaving an impression in the mouth, similar to that from certain metallic salts. It is a most valuable medicine, much used at the present day.

STUB, n. [Sax. steb; Dan. stub; Sw. stubbe, a stock or stem; L. stipes; from setting, fixing. See Stop.]

1. The stump of a tree; that part of the stem of a tree which remains fixed in the earth when the tree is cut down. [Stub, in the United States, I believe is never used for the stump of an herbaceous plant.]
2. A log; a block. [Not in use.] – Milton.

STUB, v.t.

1. To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots. – Grew.
2. To strike the toes against a stump, stone or other fixed object. – New England.

STUB'BED, a.

1. Short and thick like something truncated; blunt; obtuse. [Sw. stubbig.]
2. Hardy; not nice or delicate. Berkeley.

STUB'BED-NESS, n.

Bluntness; obtuseness.

STUB'BING, ppr.

Grubbing up by the roots; extirpating.

STUB'BLE, n. [D. and G. stoppel; Sw. stubb; L. stipula. It is a diminutive of stub.]

The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the sythe or sickle. After the first crop is off; they plow in the stubble. – Mortimer.

STUB'BLE-GOOSE, n. [stubble and goose.]

A goose fed among stubble. – Chaucer.

STUB'BLE-RAKE, n.

A rake with long teeth for raking together stubble.

STUB'BORN, a. [This word is doubtless formed on the root of stub or stiff and denotes fixed, firm. Chaucer writes it stibborne, 6038. But the origin of the latter syllable is not obvious.]

1. Unreasonably obstinate; inflexibly fixed in opinion; not to be moved or persuaded by reasons; inflexible; as, a stubborn son; a stubborn mind or soul. The queen is obstinate … / Stubborn to justice. – Shak.
2. Persevering; persisting; steady; constant; as, stubborn attention. – Locke.
3. Stiff; not flexible; as, a stubborn bow. – Chapman. Take a plant of stubborn oak. – Dryden.
4. Hardy; firm; enduring without complaint; as, stubborn Stoics. – Swift.
5. Harsh; rough; rugged. [Little used.]
6. Refractory; not easily melted or worked; as, a stubborn ore or metal.
7. Refractory; obstinately resisting command, the goad or the whip; as, a stubborn ass or horse.

STUB'BORN-LY, adv.

Obstinately; inflexibly; contumaciously.