ple with fair promises, and humouring them with weak, are thereby rendered as useless as if they invectives against the king and government. really were so. Seutó. Bacon. 4. Supplied with forces. It has in this He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind, He strok'd her cheeks. sense a very particular construction. We Dryden. say, a thousand strong; as we say, twenStroke the grim lion til he grow familiar. Dryd. ty years old, or ten zards long. She pluck'd the rising flow'rs, and fed When he was not six-and-twenty strong, The gentle beast, and fündly stroak'd his head. Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low, Addison. My father gave him welcome to the shore. 2. To rub gently in one direction. Sbatspeare. When the big-udder'd cows with patience He was, at his rising from Exeter, between six stand, Bacon. and seven thousand strong. Waiting the strokirgs of the damsel's hand. Gay. In Britain's lovely isle a shining throng TO STROLL, V. n. To wander; to ram. War in his cause, a thousand beauties strong. Tickel. ble; to rove; to gad idly. 5. Violent; forcible ; impetuous. Granville. Heytin. Your wine lock'd up, your butler stroll'd not the sea to flow up its channel. But her own king she likens to his Thames, abroad. Pope. These mothers stroll, to beg sustenance for Serene yet strong, majestick yet sedate, Swift without violence, without terror great. their helpless infants. Swift. Prior. STRO'LLER. n. s. [from stroll.] A va- 6. Hale; healthy. grant ; a wanderer ; a vagabond. Better is the poor, being sound and streng in Two brother-hermits, saints by trade, constitution, than a rich man afflicted in his body Disguis'd in catter'd habits, went Ecclesiasticas. To a small village down in Kent; 7. Forcibly acting on the imagination. Where, in the strollers canting strain, This is one of the strongest examples of a perThey begg’d from door to door in vain. Swift. sonation that ever was. Bicon. The men of pleasure, who never go to church, 3. Ardent ; eager; positive ; zealous. form their ideas of the clergy from a few poor strollers they often observe in the streets. Savifts Her mother, ever strong against the match, And firm for doctor Caius, hath appointed STROND. n. s. [for strand.] The beach; That he shall shuffle her away. Sbakspeare. the bank of the water. Obsolete. In chcice of committees for ripening business So looks the strond whereon th' imperious flood for the council, it is better to chuse indifferent Hath left a witness d usurpation. Sbakspeare. persons, than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides. Bacer. STRONG. adj. [rirang, Saxon.] The knight is a much stronger tory in the j. Vigorous; forceful; of great ability of country than in town, which is necessary for the body. keeping up his interest. Addison. Tho''gan the villain wax so fierce and strong, 9. Full; having any quality in a great deThat nothing may sustain his furious force, gree; affecting the sight forcibly. He cast him down to ground, and all along By mixing such powders, we are not io expect Drew him through dirt and mire. Spenser. a strong and full white, such as is that of paper; The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch thee but some dusky obscure ore, such as might arise up, from a mixture of light and darkness, or from And set thee by Jove's side. Shakspeare. white and black, that is, a grey, or dun, or rusThat our oxen may be strong to labour. Psal. sct brown. Nrectos. The Marsian and Cabellian race, Thus shall there be made two bows of coStrong-limb'd and stout. Dryden. lours; an interior and stronger by one reflexion Orses the strong to greater strength must yield; in the drops, and an exterior and fainter by two; He, with Parthenius, were by Rapo kill'd. for the light becomes fainter by every reflexion. Dryden. Nowica. 2. Fortified ; secure from attack. 10. Potent; intoxicating. Within Troy's strong inimures Gui strong beer to rub your horses heels. The ravish'd Helen with wanton Paris sleeps. Swift, Sbakspeare. 11. Having a deep tincture; affecting the An army of English engaged between an army taste forcibly. of a greater number, fresh and in vigour, on the Many of their propositions savour very strass one side, and a town strong in fortitication, and strong in men, on the other. of the old leaven of innovations. King Charlis. Bacon, 12. Afecting the sme'l pourerfully. Which makes him have so strong a breath, Locke. the demonstrations of Euclid. Hil. Each night he stinks a queen to death. Add with Cecropian thyme siror -scented 3. Powerful; mighty. centaury. While there was war between the houses of Dryden. The heat ot' a human body, as it grows inore Saul and David, Abner made himself strong for inteuse, makes the urine smell more strong, Saul. 2 Samuel. Aréabrot. The merchant-adventurers being a strong com. pany, and well underset with rich men and good 13. Hard of digestion ; not easily nutriorder, held out bravely. Bacon, mental. Those that are strong at sea may easily bring Strong meat belongeth to them that are of them to what terms they please. dison. Hebrews The weak, by thinking themselves strong, are 14. Furnished with abilities for any thing. induced to proclain war against that which ruins I was stronger in prophecy than in criticum. them; and the sirora; by conceiting themselves Diyun. full age. reasons. S T R 13. Valid, confirmed. stones: and some will touch upon gold, that will In process of time, an ungodly custom grown not touch upon silver. Bacon. strong was kept as a law. Wisdom. STROOK. The preterit of strike, used in 16. Violent; veheinent ; forcibie. poetry for struck. In the days of his flesh he cffered up prayers, A sudden terapest from the desart flew with strong crying and tears. Hebrezi's. With horrid wings, and thunder'd as it blew: The scriptures make deep and strong impres- Then, whirling round, the quoins together strook. sions on the ininds of men and whosoever de. Sandys. nies this, as he is in point of religion atheistical, That conqu’ring look, so in understanding brutish. 7. Corbei, When next beheld, like lightning strook 17. Cogent; conclusive. Máy blasted soul, and made me bow. Waller. Messengers He, like a patient angler, ere he strook, Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth. Would let them play a while upon the hook. Sbuckspeare. Dryden. Produce your cause; bring forth your strong STROPHE. n. s. [strophe, Fr. sfoqin.] A Isaiah. stanza. Srrove. The preterit of strive. Having quite lost the way of nobleness, he these which have been controverted; and for strove to climb to the height of terribleness. Sidney that very reason, because they are the strongest. Waterland. TO STROUT. V. 1. (strissen, German.) 18. Able; skilfol; of great force of mind. To swell with an appearance of greatThere is no English soul ness; to walk with affected dignity; to More stronger to direct you than yourself, strut. This is commonly written strut, If with the sap of reason you would quench which seems more proper. Or but allay the fire of passion. Sbaksp:are. To STROUT. v. a. To swell out; to puff 19. Firm; compact; not soon broken. Full on his ankle feil the pond'rous stone, out; to enlarge by affectation. I will make a brief list of the particulars in an Burst the strong nerves, and crash'd the solid historical truth nowise strouted, nor made greatbone. Pope. Bacon. 20. Forcibly written; comprising much TO STRON. v. n. (See To SrRew.] meaning in few words. Like her sweet voice is thy harmonious song, 1. To spread by being scattered. Angel forms lay entranc'd, As high, as sweet, as easy, and as strong. Smiib. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks STRONGFI'STED. adj. (strong and fist.] In Volambrosa. Milton. Stronghanded. 2. To spread by scattering; to besprinkle. John, who was pretty strong fisted, gave liim All the ground such a squeeze as made his eyes water. Arbuth. With shiver'd armour strown. Milton. STRO'NG HAND, n. s. (strong and hand.] Come, shepherds, come, and strow with leaves Force; violence. the plain; When their captain dieth, if the seniory should Such funeral rites your Daphnis did ordain. Dryd, descend to his child, and an infant, another would With osier floats the standing water strow, thrust him out by strong band, being then unable With massy stones make bridges if it flow. Dryd. to defend his right. Spenser. 3. To spread. They wanting land wherewith to sustain their There have been three years dearth of corn, people, and the Tuscanshaving more than enough, and every place strowed with beggars. Swift. it was their meaning to take what they needed 4. To scatter; to throw at random. by strongband. Raleigh. Synah, can I tell thee more? SIRO'NGLY. adv. [from strong.) And of our ladies bowre; But little need to strow my store, 1. With strength ; powerfully, forcibly. The colewort is an enemy to any plant, be Suffice this hill of our. Spenser. The tree in storms cause it draWeth strongly the fattest juice of the earth. Bacon, The g’ad earth about her strows With treasure from her yielding boughs. Waller. Had flash'd too strongly on his aking sight. Possession kept the beaten road, And gather'd all his brother strow'd. Swin. Water impregnated with salt attenuates To Strowl. v. n. To range; to wander. strongly. dirbuthnot. When the attention is strongly fixed to any [See STROLL.) 'T is she who nightly strowls with saunt'ring subject, all that is said concerning it makes a Watts. pace. deeper impression. Gay. To Stroy. v. a. [for destroy ] 2. With strength; with firmness; in such Dig garden, stroy mallow, now may you at a manner as to last; in such a manner Tusser. as not easily to be forced. STRUCK. The old preterit and participle Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifics. Sbaksp. passive of strike. Let the foundations be strongly laid. Ezra, This message bear: the Trojans and their chief 3. Vehemently ; forcibly ; cagerlv. Bring holy peace, and beg the king's relief; All these accuse him strongly. Shakspeare. Struck with so great a name, and all on fire, The ruinous consequences of Wood's patent The youth replies, whatever you require. Dryd. have been strongly represented by both houses. Swift. In a regular plantation, I can place myself in its several centers, so as to view all the walks STRONGWA'TER. n. s. (strong and wa- struck from them. Spectator. ter. r.) Distilled spirits. High on his car Sesostris struck my view, Metals receive in readily strongwaters; and Whom scepter'd slaves in golden harness drew. strong quaters do readily pierce into metals and Pope VÖL. IV. Aa ease. or cancerous. L'Estrange Pope. . Some to conceit alone their taste confine, ing swellings in the glands; tainted with And glite’ring thoughts struck our at ev'ry line, the king sevil. Pope. How to treat them when strumous, scirrhous, STRUCKEN. The old participle passive Wisemania of strike. A glandulous consumption, such as does not Down fell the duke, his joints dissolv'd asunder, affect the lungs with a rupture of its vessels, Blind with the light, and strucken dead with won- and coughing up blood, is produced by strmous der. ruirfax. or scrophulous humouss. Blackmore. All liquors strucken make round circles, and STRU'MPET. n. s. [of doubtful original. dash. Bacon. Stropo vieux mot palliardise. Trevour. Silent, and in fice Stuprum, Lat.) A whore; a prostitute. Confounded, long they sat as strucken mute. How like a younker or a prodigal The skarfed bark pucs from her native bay, STRUCTURE. n. s. (structure, Fr. siruc- Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind! tura, from structus, Lat.) How like a prodigal doth she return, 1. Act of building ; practice of building. Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind! His son builds on, and never is content, Sbakspeare. Till the last farthing is in structure spent. Dryd. Ne'er could the strumpet, 2. Minner of building; form; make. With all her double vigour, art and nature, Several have gone about to inform them; but, Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid for want of insight into the structure and constie Subdues me quite. Sbakspeare. tution of the terraqueous globe, have not given If to preserve this vessel for my lord satisfaction. Woodward, From any other foul unlawful touch, 3. Edifice; building. Be not to be a strumpe, I an none. Sbakspeare. Ecbatana her struciure vast there shers, Common fame is as false and impudent as a common strumpet. And Hecatompyios her hundred gates. Milton. Honour had his due; High on a rock of ice the structure lav: Pope. Before the holy priest my vows were tyd; There stands a structure of majestick framé. So came I not a strumpit, but a bride. Dryden. SIrude or Strode. n. s. A stock of breed. To STRUʻMPET. v. a. To make a whore; to debauch. ing mares. Bailey. If we two be one, and thou play false, To Srru'GGLE, v. n. (of uncertain ety I do digest the poison of thy flesh, mology. ] Being strumpeted by the contagion. Sbakspeare. 1. To labour; to act with effort. STRUNG. The pret. and part. pass. of 2. To strive ; to contend; to contest. string: No man is guilty of an act of inteniperance but The string bow points out the Cynthian queen. hc might have forborne it; not without some Gay. trouble from the strugglings of the contrary ha- To Strut. v. n. (strussen, German.) bit, but still the thing was possible. South. 1. To walk with affected dignity; to swell In the time of Henry vin. differences of religion tore the nation into two mighty factions; with stateliness. and, under the name of Papist and Protestant, Adore our errours, laugh at 's while we strut To our contusion. struggled in her bowels with many various events. Sbakspeare. Temple. Does he not hold up his head, and strut in his I repent, like some despairing wretch gait ? Sbakspeare. Though thou strut and paint, Yet art thou both shrunk up and old. B. JAJCH. And catches every slender reed to save him. Tiie false stren Struts on the waves, and shews the brute below. 3. To labour in difficulties; to be in ago Dryden, We will be with you cre che crowing cock nies or distress. Salutes the light, and struts before his feather'd Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, tiock. Exerts itself, and then throws ott'the ill. Dryd. Dryden. 2. To swell; to protuberate. "T is wisdoni to beware, And better shun the bait than struggle in the The goats with struiting dugs shall homeward Dryden. speed. Dryder. The pow'r apreas'd, with winds suffic'd the sail, If men struggle through as many troubles to The bellying canvas strutled with the gale. be miserable as to be happy, my readers may be persuaded to be good. Spectator. Drydenis As thy strutting bags with money rise, STRUGGLE. n. s. [from the verb.] The love of gain is of an equal size. Dryska. 1s Labour; effort. STRUT. ». s. (from the verb.] An affecta2. Contest; contention. tion of stateliness in the walk. Wher, in the division of parties, men only Certain gentlemen, by smirking countenances strove for the first place in the prince's favour, and an ungainly strut in their walk, have got an honest man might look upon the struggle preferment. Srrift. with indifference. Addison. STUB. n. s. (rreb, Sax. stubbe, Danish ; It began and ended without any of those un stob, Dutch; stipes, Latin.] natural siruggles for the chair, which have disurbed the peace of this great city. Atterbury. I. A thick short stock left when the rest 3. Azony ; tumultuous distress. is cut off. STKU”MÅ, n. s. [Latin.] A glandular Dametas guided the horses so ill, that the wheel coming over a great stub of a tree, overswelling; the kingsevil. turned the coach. Sidney. A gentlewoman had a struma about tho instep, All about oid stocks and stubs of trees, very hard and deep about the tendons. Wiseman. Whereon nor fruit nor leat was ever seen, STRU’MOUS, adj. [from struma.]. Hav. Did hang upon the rassed rocky knees.. Spens. snare. mass. ܪ To buy at the stieb is the best for the buyer, The queen is obstinate, More cimely provision, the cheaper is tire. Stubborn to justice, apt t'accuse it, and Tusser. Disclainful to be tried by't. Shakspeare. Upon cutting down of an old timber tree, the He believed he had so humbled the garrison, stub hath put out sometimes a tree of another chat they would be no longer so stubiorn. kind. Bacon. Clarendon. We here I 'll not flatter this tempestuous king, Live on tough roots and stubs, to thirst inurid, But work his stubborn soul a nobler way. Dryd. Men to much misery and hardships born. Milt. 2. Persisting ; pereevering ; steady. Prickiy stubs instead of trees are found, All this is to be had only from the epistles Or woods with knots and knares deform'd and themselves, with stubborn attention, and more old; thin common application. Locke, Headless the most, and hideous to behold. Dryd. ġ. Stiff'; not pliable; inflexible ; not easily 2. A log; a block. admitting impression. You shall have more ado to drive our dullest Love softens me, and blows up fires which pass and laziest youth, our stocks and stubs, from the Through my tough heart, and melt the stubborn infinite desire of such a happy nurture, than we Dryden. have now to haul our choicest wits to that asin Take a plant of stubborn oak, ine feast of sow thistles and brambles. Milton. And labour l.im with many a sturdy stroke. Dryd. TO STUB. v. a. (from the noun.] To 4. Hardy ; firm. force up; to extirpate. Patience under torturing pain, His two tusks serve for fighting and feeding; Where stubborn stoicks would complain. Swift. by the help whereof he stu's up edible roots out 5. Harsh : rough; rugged. of the ground, or tears off the bark of trees. He will not oppose any thing that is hard and Grew. stubborn, but by a soft answer deaden their force. The other tree was griev'd, Burnet. Grew scrubby, dried a-top, was stunted; 6. In all its uses it commonly implies So the next parson stubb'd and burnt it. Swift. something of a bad quality, though STU'BBED. adj. (from stub.] Truncated; Locke has catachrestically used it in a short and thick. sense of praise. A pain he in his head-piece feels; Sru'B BORNLY.adv. [from stubborn.] ObAgainst a stubbed tree he reels, stinately; contumaciously; inflexibly. And up went poor Hobgoblin's heels. Drayton. Stubbornly he did repugn the truth, To spighe the cov nymphs, About a certain question in the law. Shakspeare. Hang upon our stubbed horns He wilfully neglects his book, and stubbornly Garlands, ribbons, and fine poesies. Ben Jonsor, refuses any thing he can do. Locke. STUBBEDNESS. n. s. [from stubbed.] So close they cling, so stubbornly retire, Their love's more violent than the chymist's fire. The state of being short, thick, and Gartb. truncated. STU'BBORNNESS. n. s. [from stubborn.] STUBBLE. ". s. [estouble, Fr. stoppel, Obstinacy; vitious stoutness ; contu. Dutch ; stipula, La:in.] The stålks of macy ; inflexibility. Dryden has used corn left in the field by the reaper. it in commendation. This suggested Happy is your grace, At some time, when his soaring insolence That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Shall reach the people, will be the fire Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Shadspeare. To kindle their dry' stubble, and their blaze Shall darkun hin for ever. He chose a course least subject to erivy, beSbakspear. tween stilf stubbornness and filthy flatt ry. You, by thus much scene, Hayward. Know by the stubble what the corn hath bene. Patriots, in peace, assert the people's right, With noble stublornness resisting might. Dryd. If a small red flower in the stubbis fields, called Stubbernness, and an obstinate disobedience, the wincopipe, open in the morning, be sure of a must be mastered with blow's. Locke. Bacon. It failed, partly by the accidents of a storm, and His succeeding years aford him lietle more partly by the stubbornness or creachery of that than the stubble of his own harvest. Dryden. Thrice-happy Duck, employ'd in threshing Sil'387. adj. [from stub.] Short and colony for whose relief it was designed. Swifi. stubble, Thy toil is lessen'd, and thy profits double. thick; short and strong. Swift. The base is surrounded with a garland of black After the first crop is off, they plow in the and stubby bristles. Grezu. wheat stubble, Mortimer. STUBNAIL. n. s. [stub and nail.] A nail STU’BBORN. adi. [This word, of which broken off; a short thick nail. no obvious etymology appears, is de- STU'CCO. n. s. [Ital. stuc, Fr.) A kind of rived by Minshew from stout-born; re- fine plaster for walls ferred by Junius to çobajos; and deduced Palladian walls, Venetian doors, better by Lye, from stub, perhaps from Grotesco roofs, and stucto floors. Pope. stub-horn.] STUCE. The pret. and var. p?ss. of stick. i. Obstinate ; in flexible ; contumacious. What more infamous brands have records Strifeful Atin in their stubborn mind stuck upon any, than those who used the best Coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'. parts for the worsi ends? Decay of Piety. Spenser. The partners of their crime will learn obeThen stood he necre the doore, and proud to dience, draw When they look up and see their fellow-craitors The stubborne bow, thrice cried, and thrice gave Stuck on a fork, and black'uing in the suu. law. Clupmur, Addison fair day. When the polypus, from forth his cave SU U’DIER. n. s. [from study. ] One tic Lipsius was a great studier of the stoical philo- sophy: upon his death-bed his friend told him, Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with that he needed not use arguments to persuade strings, him to patience; the philosophy which he had That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of studied' would furnish him: he answers him, kings. Pape. Lord Jesus, zive me christian patience. Tillatser. Srick. n. s. A thrust. There is a law of nature, as intelligible to a I had a pass with rapier, scabbard and all; and rational creature and studier of that law, as the he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal mo- positive laws of commonwealths. Locke. tion, that it is inevitable. Shakspeare. Studious, adj. (studieux, Fr. studiosus, STUCKLE. n. s. (stool, Scottish.] A num. Latin.] ber of sheaves laid together in the field 1. Given to books and contemplation; to dry. Ainsworth. given to learning STUD. n. s. (rtudu, Saxon.] A proper remedy for wandering thoughes he 1. A post; a stake. In some such mean- that shall propose, wound do great service to the ing perhaps it is to be taken in the fol- studious and contemplative part of mankind. Lock. lowing passage, which I do not understand. 2. Diligent; busy. Studious to find new friends and new allies. A barn in the country, that hath one single Ticke! stud, or one height of siuds to the roof, is ewo shillings a foot. Mortimer. 3. Attentive to ; careful: with of. 2. A nail with a large head driven for or Disines must become studious of pious and ve nerable antiquity. W bite. nament; any ornamental knob or pro The people made tuberance. Stout for the war, and studious of their trade. Handles were to add, Dryden. For which he now was making studs. Chapmarz. There are who, fondly studions of increase, A belt of straw, and ivy buds, Rich foreign mold on their ill-natur'd land With coral clasps and amber studs. Raleigh. Induce. Phili Crystal and myrrhine cups, emboss'd with geins And studs of pearl. 4. Contemplative; suitable to meditation.' Milton. Let my due feet never fail Upon a plane are several small oblong studs, To walk the studious cloisters pale. placed regularly in a quincunx order. Woodward. Him for the studious shade A desk he had of curious work, Kind niture form’d. Tbomion. With litt'ring studs about. Szwift. Sru'DIOUSLY.adv. (from studious.] 3. roo A collection of breeding horses 1. Contemplatively; with close application 3. [rrods, Saxon; stod, Islandick, is a .] and mares. to literature, In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, 2. Diligently ; carefully; attentively. we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, On a short pruning-hook his head reclines, and size. Tempic. And sére.diously sztus his gen'rous vines. Dryde To Stun, v. a. (from the noun.) To All of them swoiously cherished the memory of their honourable extraction. adorn with studs or shining knobs. Atterbury. Thy horses shall be trappa, SIU'MIOUSNESS.nis. [from studious.] Ad'Their harness studded all with gold and pearl. diciion to sturly. Shakespeare. STUDY. ". s. fistude, Fr. studium, Lat. A silver studded ax, alike bestow'd. Dryden. 1. Application of inind to books and STU'DENT, M.S. (sildens, Lat.) A man learning given to books; a scholar; a bookishi During the whole time of his abode in the university, Hammond generally spent thirtee a Keep a gamester from dice, and a good student hours of the day in study. from his book. Shaisgiare. Standy gives strength to the mind; conversaThis grave advice some siber strident bears, tion, grace. Temples And loudly rings it in his fello:r's ears. Dryden. En age the mind in study by a consideration of A student shall do more in one hour, when all the divine pleasures of truth and knowledge: Watts. things cancur to invite him to any special study, than in four at a dull season. Waits. Perplexity ; deep cogitation. I sighly couch the subject, and recoinmend it Th' idea of her life shall sireetly creep, to some student of the profession. Arburbrot. Into his study of imagination. Sbakspeare. The king of Castile, a little confused, and in 1 Sri'nieD. adj. [from study.] study, said, that can I not do with my honour. 1. Learneci ; versed in any study; quali Baten. fied by siudy: 3. Attention ; meditation ; contrivance. He died What can happen As one that had been studied in his death, To me above this wretchedncss? All your studies To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd, Mike me a curse like this. Sbalspears As 't !vere a careless trife. Sbakspeare. Without study this art is not attained, nor fit I am well studie: for a liberal thanks to be attained. Which I do ove you. Shakspeare. Just men they seem'd, and all their sta'; bent It will be fit that some min, reasonably studied To worship God aright, and know his works, in th: lav, go as chancellor. Bacon. 4. Any particular kind of learning. Stridies serve for delight in privateness and reA prince should not be so loosely studied as to tiring, for ornament in discourse, and for ability remember su weak a composition. Shakspeare. in the judgment and disposition of business. Bacon. Fell. 3n. 2. Hahday. of use. |