struggle, strogel, strogell, stroggell, strogle, struggel, strugle

i. [Etym. doubtful. According to Skeat Mid. Eng. strogelen is a softened form for stroke len, a frequent. from strike (q. v.).] 1. To make efforts with a twisting or with movements of the body. "Struggling in blood the savage lies." Scott: Cadyow Castle. 2. To make great efforts; to labor hard; to strive with effort. "She struggleth and striveth to get up and to breake lowse in vain." -Tyndall : Works , p. 186. 3. To labor in pain, anguish, difficulty, or distre ; to be in pain or agony. 4. To contend, to vie. 'The sunbeams sought the Court of Guard, And, struggling with the smoky air, Deadened the torches' yellow glare." Scott: Lady of the Lake, vi. 2. strŭg'-gle, s. [STRUGGLE, v.] 1. A violent effort or series of efforts with contortions of the body; agonized effort; agony. "The uneasy struggles of a man fast bound and fettered."-Water land: Works , iv. 54. 2. A forcible and strong effort to obtain an object or to avert an evil; an effort. "Then came a desperate struggle for a tremendous stake."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. vi. 3. Contest, contention, strife; as, a struggle between troops. T Struggle for existence: Biol.: A term introduced by Darwin to signify the result of the increase of animal life in a greater ratio than the means of subsistence. "All organic beings, without exception, tend to increase at so high a ratio, that no district, no station, not even the whole surface of the land or the whole ocean, would hold the progeny of a single pair after a certain number of generations. The inevitable result is an ever recurring struggle for existence."- Darwin : Variation of Animals and Plants , i. 5. 3893 A. As subst.: A prostitute, a harlot. "I am no strumpet ; but of life as honest, As you that thus abuse me." Shakesp.: Othello , v. 1 *B. As adj .: Like a strumpet; false, inconstant. "The strumpet wind." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, ii. 6. *strum'-pět, v . t . [STRUMPET, 8.] 1. To debauch. ( Shakesp .: Comedy of Errors , ii. 2.) 2. To call or give the reputation of a strumpet to hence, to belie, to slander. "Pen the a, poor Pen the a's name is strumpeted ." Ford: Broken Heart , iv. 2. *strŭm-strŭm, s. [A red up. of strum (q. v.).] A rude musical instrument, a tom-tom. "The strum strum is made somewhat like a cittern; most of those that the Indians use are made of a large gourd cut in the midst, and a thin board laid over the hollow, and which is fastened to the sides; this serves for the belly, over which the strings are placed."- Dampier : Voyages (an. 1684).