Word Meanings - STROUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To swell; to puff out; to project. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to STROUT)

• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• PROJECTURE
  A jutting out beyond a surface.
• PROJECTOR
  One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange.
• SWELL
  1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in
• SWELLDOM
  People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
• PROJECTILE
  1. Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force. 2. Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion. Arbuthnot.
• PROJECT
  of projicere to project; pro forward + jacere to throw. See Jet a 1. The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth. Holland. 2. That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan. Vented much
• SWELLING
  an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring;
• SWELLISH
  Dandified; stylish.
• SWELLFISH
  Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• UNSWELL
  To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• BOSWELLISM
  The style of Boswell.
• COMPRESSION PROJECTILE
  A projectile constructed so as to take the grooves of a rifle by means of a soft copper band firmly attached near its base or, formerly, by means of an envelope of soft metal. In small arms the modern projectile, having a soft core and
• HIGH-SWELLING
  Inflated; boastful.
• OUTSWELL
  1. To exceed in swelling. 2. To swell beyond; to overflow. Hewyt.
• BOSWELLIAN
  Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.