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Struggler
(Strug"gler) n. One who struggles.

Strull
(Strull) n. A bar so placed as to resist weight.

Strum
(Strum) v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Strummed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Strumming.] [Probably of imitative origin. Cf. Thrum.] To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.

Struma
(||Stru"ma) n. [L., a scrofulous tumor.]

1. (Med.) Scrofula.

2. (Bot.) A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.

Strumatic
(Stru*mat"ic) a. Scrofulous; strumous.

Strumose
(Stru*mose") a. [L. strumosus: cf. F. strumeux.]

1. (Med.) Strumous.

2. (Bot.) Having a struma.

Strumous
(Stru"mous) a. (Med.) Scrofulous; having struma.

Strumousness
(Stru"mous*ness), n. The state of being strumous.

Strumpet
(Strum"pet) n. [OE. strumpet, strompet; cf. OF. stupe debauchery, F. stupe, L. stuprare, stupratum, to debauch, stuprum debauchery, Gael. & Ir. striopach a prostitute.] A prostitute; a harlot. Shak.

Strumpet
(Strum"pet), a. Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet.

Out on thy more than strumpet impudence.
B. Jonson.

Strumpet
(Strum"pet), v. t.

1. To debauch. [Obs.] Shak.

2. To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander.

With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame.
Massinger.

Strumstrum
(Strum"strum) n. A rude musical instrument somewhat like a cittern. [R.] Dampier.

Strung
(Strung) imp. & p. p. of String.

Strunt
(Strunt) n. Spirituous liquor. [Scot.] Burns.

Struntian
(Strun"tian) n. A kind of worsted braid, about an inch broad. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Struse
(Struse) n. [Russ. strug'.] (Naut.) A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.

Strut
(Strut) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Strutted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Strutting.] [OE. struten, strouten, to swell; akin to G. strozen to be swelled, to be puffed up, to strut, Dan. strutte.]

1. To swell; to bulge out. [R.]

The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.
Dryden.


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