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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: struggle - stub pen</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="struggle"> struggle, verb, -gled, -gling, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. 1. to make great efforts with the body; work hard against difficulties; try hard. Ex. The poor have to struggle for a living. The swimmer struggled against the tide. She struggled to keep back the tears. (SYN) strive, labor, toil, contend. <DD> 2. to fight. Ex. The dog struggled fiercely with the wildcat. <DD> 3. to get, move, or make one's way with great effort. Ex. to struggle through, to struggle along, to struggle to one's feet. <DD>v.t. 1. to bring, put, do, or otherwise achieve by struggling. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) to contest (a point) persistently. <DD>noun 1. great effort; hard work. Ex. It is a struggle for the widow to send her six children to college. Making the baby eat his spinach is a struggle. (SYN) exertion, labor, endeavor. <DD> 2. the act of fighting; conflict. (SYN) strife, contest. noun struggler. </DL> <A NAME="struggleforexistence"> struggle for existence or life,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) the competition between living animals or plants for survival; natural selection. Often, the circumstances helping one form survive cause another to die out. </DL> <A NAME="struggling"> struggling, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. that struggles. <DD> 2. having a struggle to make a living. Ex. a struggling professional man, a struggling periodical. adv. strugglingly. </DL> <A NAME="strum"> strum, verb, strummed, strumming, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t., v.i. 1a. to play by running the fingers across the strings or keys, often carelessly and with a light touch. Ex. to strum a guitar, to strum on the piano. <DD> b. to play by strumming. Ex. to strum a melody, to strum out a few chords. <DD> 2. to tap against or strike as if strumming. Ex. to strum one's fingers impatiently on a table, to strum on a table with one's fingers. <DD>noun 1. the act of strumming. <DD> 2. the sound of strumming. noun strummer. </DL> <A NAME="struma"> struma, noun, pl. -mae.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Medicine.) <DD> a. scrofula. <DD> b. goiter. <DD> 2. (Botany.) a cushionlike swelling or dilatation of or on an organ, as at one side of the base of the capsule in many mosses, or at the tip of the petiole in many leaves. </DL> <A NAME="strumose"> strumose, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Medicine.) strumous. <DD> 2. (Botany.) having a strumaor strumae. </DL> <A NAME="strumous"> strumous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Medicine.) affected with or characteristic of struma. </DL> <A NAME="strumpet"> strumpet, noun. =prostitute.</DL> <A NAME="strung"> strung, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense and a past participle of string. Ex. The children strung along after the teacher. The vines were strung on poles. expr. strung out, (Slang.) to be or become addicted to a drug. Ex. He is strung out on heroin. </DL> <A NAME="strungout"> strung-out, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> sick, weak, or disturbed, especially from drug addiction. Ex. "These are very strung-out kids with individual hangups," said Jim Fouratt ... describing the modern runaway (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="strunt"> strunt, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD>noun 1. a fit of ill humor; the sulks. <DD> 2. alcoholic liquor. <DD>v.i. 1. to sulk. <DD> 2. to strut. </DL> <A NAME="strunzite"> strunzite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a yellowish mineral consisting chiefly of iron, manganese, and phosphorus, with small amounts of magnesium and zinc. </DL> <A NAME="strut"> strut (1), verb, strutted, strutting, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. to walk in a vain, important, or affected manner. Ex. The rooster struts about the barnyard. <DD>v.t. to walk upon or over with a vain, self-important, or affected manner. Ex. to strut the stage. <DD>noun a strutting walk. Ex. after our little hour of strut and rave (James Russell Lowell). noun strutter. </DL> <A NAME="strut"> strut (2), noun, verb, strutted, strutting.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a supporting piece that resists pressure in a framework, such as a diagonal brace that acts as a support for a beam of a bridge or the rafter of a roof; brace. <DD>v.t. to brace or support by a strut or struts. </DL> <A NAME="struthioid"> struthioid, adjective. =struthious.</DL> <A NAME="struthious"> struthious, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or belonging to a large group of flightless birds including the ostriches and, sometimes, other birds with unkeeled sternums, such as the emus and cassowaries. <DD> 2. of or like the ostrich. Ex. struthious tactics. </DL> <A NAME="strutting"> strutting, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that struts or is like a strut. Ex. a strutting rooster, a strutting drum major. adv. struttingly. </DL> <A NAME="strutty"> strutty, adjective, -tier, -tiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> walking with an affected air of dignity; strutting. Ex. A tough, strutty little man said, "I believe in capital punishment" (Truman Capote). </DL> <A NAME="strychnin"> strychnin, noun. =strychnine.</DL> <A NAME="strychnine"> strychnine, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a highly poisonous drug consisting of colorless crystals. It is an alkaloid obtained from the nux vomica and related plants. Strychnine is used in medicine in small doses as a tonic, and as a stimulant to the central nervous system. </DL> <A NAME="strychninism"> strychninism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a disordered condition produced by too great a use of strychnine. </DL> <A NAME="strychnos"> strychnos, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any tropical tree or shrub of a group with usually poisonous bark, roots, or seeds, such as the nux vomica. </DL> <A NAME="sts"> sts.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. stanzas. <DD> 2. stitches. </DL> <A NAME="sts"> STS (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Serologic Test for Syphilis. </DL> <A NAME="stuart"> Stuart, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of the royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371 to 1603, and England and Scotland from 1603 to 1714. James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II, Mary II, and Queen Anne were the Stuarts who reigned after 1603. </DL> <A NAME="stub"> stub, noun, verb, stubbed, stubbing, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a short piece that is left. Ex. the stub of a pencil, the stub of a cigar. <DD> 2a. the short piece of each leaf, as in a checkbook, kept as a record. <DD> b. a similar part of a motion-picture or theater ticket. <DD> 3. something short and blunt; short, thick, piece or part. <DD> 4. a pen having a short, blunt point. <DD> 5. the stump of a tree, a broken tooth, or lost limb. <DD> 6. =stub nail. <DD>v.t. 1. to strike (one's toe) against something. Ex. He stubbed his toe against the doorsill. <DD> 2. to clear (land) of tree stumps. <DD> 3. to dig up by the roots; grub up (roots). <DD> 4. to put out (a cigarette) by pressing the lighted end of the stub against a hard object. Ex. He hesitated, took it, smoked it only half way before stubbing it out (Cape Times). <DD>adj. squat; stubby. </DL> <A NAME="stubbed"> stubbed, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. reduced or worn down to a stub. <DD> 2. cut close to the skin, stubbly. Ex. stubbed hair. <DD> 3. having many stubs. <DD> 4. sturdy; hardy. noun stubbedness. </DL> <A NAME="stubble"> stubble, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the lower ends of stalks of grain left in the ground after the grain is cut. Ex. The stubble hurt the boy's bare feet. The long-lasting stubbles, with their spilled grain, were also the partridge's winter granaries (London Times). <DD> 2. any short, rough growth. Ex. He had a three days' stubble on his unshaven face. (SYN) bristle. </DL> <A NAME="stubbled"> stubbled, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> covered with stubble. </DL> <A NAME="stubblefield"> stubble field,<DL COMPACT><DD> a field from which grain has been cut; stubbled piece of ground. </DL> <A NAME="stubbly"> stubbly, adjective, -blier, -bliest.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. covered with stubble. Ex. stubbly waste land (Sinclair Lewis). <DD> 2. like stubble; bristly. Ex. a stubbly moustache. </DL> <A NAME="stubborn"> stubborn, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. fixed in purpose or opinion; not giving in to argument or requests; unyielding. Ex. The stubborn boy refused to listen to reasons for not going out in the rain. (SYN) dogged, resolute. <DD> 2. characterized by obstinacy. Ex. a stubborn refusal to listen to reason, a stubborn defense of a belief. (SYN) dogged, resolute. <DD> 3. hard to deal with or manage. Ex. a stubborn cough, a stubborn metal. Facts are stubborn things. Not a plough had ever disturbed a grain of that stubborn soil (Thomas Hardy). (SYN) unruly, ungovernable, refractory. adv. stubbornly. noun stubbornness. </DL> <A NAME="stubby"> stubby, adjective, -bier, -biest.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. short and thick or broad. Ex. stubby fingers, a stubby figure. His stubby-fingered, thick-veined hands and his short, corded arms were like steel and leather (Atlantic). <DD> b. short and blunt as the result of wear. Ex. a stubby pencil. <DD> 2. short, thick, and stiff. Ex. a stubby beard. <DD> 3. having many stubs or stumps. noun stubbiness. </DL> <A NAME="stube"> stube or Stube, noun, pl. -bes, -ben. =bierstube.</DL> <A NAME="stubnail"> stub nail,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a short, thick nail. <DD> 2. a worn or broken nail, especially an old horseshoe nail. </DL> <A NAME="stubpen"> stub pen, =stub (def. 4).</DL> <A HREF="stubwing.dic">NEXT</A>