strull

[Etym. doubtful.] A bar so placed as to resist weight. strŭm, v. t. & i. [A word of imitative origin.] A. Transitive: 1. To play, as on a stringed instrument, noisily and unskillfully. "The ability to strum a few airs on the piano."-London Daily Telegraph. 2. To affect, by playing noisily and unskillfully on a stringed instrument. "To strum my father to sleep after a fox-chase."- Sher . idan: School for Scandal, ii. 1. B. In trans.: To play noisily and unskillfully on a stringed instrument; to thrum. jolting step; Icel. strutr =a sort of hood sticking out like a horn; Ger. strutt rigid, stiff; strau =a tuft, a bunch; strotzen =to be puffed up, to strut.] *1. To swell out, to protuberate. IMG:content-0442.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Botany : (1) A swelling or protuberance where the petiole meets the lamina of a leaf, as in Mimosa sensitiva . (2) A dilatation or swelling on one side at the base of the sporangia of some mo es. 2. Pathology: External scrofula, attended by glandular swellings, extensive ulcerations, and indolent absce es. Called also King's evil and tabes glandular is.