Part 879

Syn. -- To strive; contend; labor; endeavor.

Strug"gle (?), n. 1. A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

2. Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil. Macaulay.

3. Contest; contention; strife.

An honest might look upon the struggle with indifference.

Addison.

Syn. -- Endeavor; effort; contest; labor; difficulty.

Strug"gler (?), n. One who struggles.

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

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.

||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.

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

Stru*mose" (?), a. [L. strumosus: cf. F. strumeux.] 1. (Med.) Strumous.

2. (Bot.) Having a struma.

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

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

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.

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

Out on thy more than strumpet impudence.

B. Jonson.

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.

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

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

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