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Rheae :: Rheae (n. pl.) A suborder of struthious birds including the rheas.

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut..

Cock :: Cock (v. i.) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing..

Strut :: Strut (v. t.) To swell; to bulge out.

Astrut :: Astrut (a. & adv.) Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner..

Spur :: Spur (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut..

Strop :: Stroot (v. i.) To swell out; to strut.

Strut :: Strut (n.) In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof..

Brace :: Brace (n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell..

Latticing :: Latticing (n.) A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut..

Lacing :: Lacing (n.) A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut..

Struthioidea :: Struthio (n.) A genus of birds including the African ostriches.

Struthiones :: Struthioidea (n. pl.) Same as Struthiones.

Strut :: Strut (n.) The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.

King-post :: King-post (n.) A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post..

Astrut :: Astrut (a. & adv.) In a strutting manner; with a strutting gait.

Madnep :: Madnep (n.) The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).

Jetter :: Jetter (n.) One who struts; one who bears himself jauntily; a fop.

Strove :: Strout (v. t.) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.

Saponin :: Saponin (n.) A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type..

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