strouding

[STROUD.] Fabric: A coarse kind of cloth employed in the trade with the North American Indians; materials for strouds. *strout, *stroute, *strowt-yn, vero i. & trans. [STRUT, v.] A. Intransitive: 1. To swell, to puff. "His here strouted as a fanne large and brode." Chaucer: C. T., 3,315. 2. To strut. 3. To make a disturbance; to brag. ( Havelok . 1,779.) B. Trans.: To swell; to puff out; to exaggerate. "An historical truth, no ways strouted, nor made greater by language."-Bacon: War with Spain. strōve, pret. of v. [STRIVE, v.] *strōw, a . [STROW, v.] Loose, scattered. strōw, v . t . [STREW.] To strew, to scatter. "With olives ever green the ground is strowed." Dryden: Ovid; Metamorphoses , viii. *strōwl, v . i. [STROLL, v .] *stroy, *stroie, v. t. [A contract. of destroy (q. v.). To destroy. "Her store was stroyed with the floode." Wyat: Meane and Sure Estate. *stroy-al, s . [Eng. stroy; -al.] A waste-all, a spendthrift. ( Tu er .) *stroy-er, *stroi-er, s . [English stroy ; -er.] A destroyer. "The drake, stroier of his owne kinde." Chaucer: A embly of Foules. strück, pret. & pa. par. of v. [STRIKE, ν.] struck-measure, s. A measure, as of grain, in which the top is leveled with a strike. [STRIKE, S., II. 1.] struck-up, adj.: Disagreeably astonished; disconcerted. struck-en, pa. par. of v. [STRIKE, v.] struc-tu-ral, a. [Eng. structur(e); -al.] Pertaining to structure structural-planes, s. pl. Geol: Planes produced in the structure of rocks, either on a large scale by faulting, or on a small one by fi ure or lamination. struc-ture, subst . [Fr. from Lat. structura =a building; prop. fem. sing. of struct urus , fut. part. of struo to build; cogn. with Goth. straujan ; Ger. streuen to strew, to lay.] [STREW.] *1. The act of building; construction or erection of buildings. "His son builds on, and never is content, Till the last farthing is in structure spent." Dryden. ( Todd .) 2. A building of any kind; more especially, a building of some considerable size or pretensions; an edifice. "One of those petty structures." Words worth: Excursion, bk. ii. 3. Manner of building or construction; form, make, construction. "Seneca describes his baths to have been so mean a structure."- Cowley: E ays; Solitude. *4. Figure, outline, form. "An idol that Iphthima did present In structure of her every lineament." Chapman: Homer's Ody ey, iv. 5. The arrangement of the parts in a whole, as of the elements of a sentence or paragraph; the arrangement of the constituent particles of any substance or body. "Insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe."- Woodward , 6. Manner of organization; the manner in which the different organs or parts, as of animals or vegetables, are arranged. Structure of rocks: Min. & Petrol.: The arrangement of the granules in a mineral or rock.