Word Meanings - ASTRUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner. Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper. 2. In a strutting manner; with a strutting gait.

Related words: (words related to ASTRUT)

• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• STRUTTING
  from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• INFLATE
  Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.
• STICKING
  a. & n. from Stick, v. Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. -- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak. --
• INFLATED
  Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. 4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc. (more info) 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. 2. Turgid;
• PUFF-LEGGED
  Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.
• PUFFINESS
  The quality or state of being puffy.
• STICKFUL
  As much set type as fills a composing stick.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• PUFF-LEG
  Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.
• CONCEITEDNESS
  The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
• STICKTAIL
  The ruddy duck.
• STICK
  A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used. 6. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab. A stick of eels, twenty-five eels. -- Stick chimney, a chimney made
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• PUFFERY
  The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.
• STICKLEBACK
  Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling,
• PUFFING
  a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t. Puffing adder. Same as Puff adder , under Puff. -- Puffing pig , the common porpoise.
• PUFF
  1. A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff. " To every puff of wind a slave." Flatman. 2. Anything light and filled with air. Specifically: A puffball. kind of light
• POKING-STICK
  A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.
• PIG-STICKING
  Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. Tackeray.
• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• CHOPSTICK
  One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• MESSAGE STICK
  A stick, carved with lines and dots, used, esp. by Australian aborigines, to convey information.
• CATSTICK
  A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat. Massinger.