Word Meanings - STRUTTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.

STRUTTING
from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
STRUT
1. To swell; to bulge out. The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden. 2. To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity. Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait Shak.
STRUTHIO
A genus of birds including the African ostriches.
STRUTHIAN
Struthious.
STRUTHIONES
A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches. In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to Ratitæ,
STRUTTER
One who struts.
STRUTHIOUS
Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe.
STRUTHIOIDEA
See STRUTHIONES
STRUTHIONINE
Struthious.
ASTRUT
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.