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- English Word Strut Definition To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.
- English Word Strut Definition Protuberant.
- English Word Struthian Definition Struthious.
- English Word Struthio Definition A genus of birds including the African ostriches.
- English Word Struthioidea Definition Same as Struthiones.
- English Word Struthiones Definition of Struthio
- English Word Struthiones Definition A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches.
- English Word Struthiones Definition 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.
- English Word Struthionine Definition Struthious.
- English Word Struthious Definition Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe.
- English Word Strutted Definition of Strut
- English Word Strutter Definition One who struts.
- English Word Strutting Definition of Strut
- English Word Strutting Definition a. & n. from Strut, v.
- English Word Struvite Definition A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.
- English Word Strychnia Definition Strychnine.
- English Word Strychnic Definition Of or pertaining to strychnine; produced by strychnine; as, strychnic compounds; strychnic poisoning
- English Word Strychnic Definition used to designate an acid, called also igasuric acid.
- English Word Strychnine Definition 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.
- English Word Strychnos Definition A genus of tropical trees and shrubs of the order Loganiaceae. See Nux vomica.
- English Word Stryphnic Definition 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.
- English Word Stub Definition The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.
- English Word Stub Definition A log; a block; a blockhead.
- English Word Stub Definition The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar.
- English Word Stub Definition A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.
- English Word Stub Definition A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- English Word Stub Definition A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
- English Word Stub Definition To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.
- English Word Stub Definition To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.
- English Word Stub Definition To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object.