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STROPPIANA, a small town of the Sardinian states. 
In the Piedmontese province of Vercelli, with 1900 inhabi¬ 
tants. 
STROPPUS, among the Romans, the thong with which 
the oars were tied to the scalmus. 
STROUD, a market town of England, in the county of 
Gloucester, situated on the ridge of a declivity, near the 
confluence of the river Frome and the Slade-water. The 
latter, also called the Stroud-water, has a very clear stream, 
and is particularly celebrated for its pro perties in the dyeing 
of broad cloth, scarlet, and other grain colours. On this 
account an extensive clothing trade has been established 
here, of which the town Stroud may be regarded as the 
centre; all the surrounding valleys exhibiting a continued 
range of houses or villages, inhabited by persous engaged in 
tins manufacture. The clothiers occupy the banks of the 
river for nearly 20 miles together: they have erected many 
fulling mills on it, and some of them are supposed to make 
3000 cloths a-year. The Stroud-water canal has been of 
great advantage to this trade. It accompanies the course of 
the river to the Severn, into which it falls about five miles 
below Gloucester. This canal is extended, in another 
direction, so as to join the Thames at Lechlade, The 
scenery of this district is very beautiful, though the steep¬ 
ness and irregularity of the ground render the roads fatiguing 
to the traveller. At the time of the Domesday Survey, 
the manor of Stroud appears to have been comprehended 
in the adjoining parish of Bisley. The church, dedi¬ 
cated to St. Lawrence, has been erected and repaired at 
different periods. It consists of a nave, chancel, and side 
aisles, with a tower and spire at the west end. Here are 
also commodious chapels for the Independents and Wesleyan 
Methodists. An endowed free school, and several charity 
schools, supported by subscription, have been established 
in the town. Stroud was the birth-place of John Canton, an 
ingenious philosopher and mathematician of the last century. 
In 1811, the town and parish contained 1184 houses, and 
5321 inhabitants. Market on Friday, and two annual fairs ; 
11 miles south-east of Gloucester, and 103 west-by-north 
of London. Lat. 51. 44. N. long. 2. 12. W. 
STROUD, a village and parish of England, in the county 
of Kent, situated on the river .Medway, which separates it 
from Rochester, and over which it has a stone bridge of ] 1 
arches. The church is a handsome building, consisting of 
a nave and two aisles, 100 feet in length. In the south 
aisle is a stone chapel, the pavement of which contains 
several specimens of Mosaic work. The remains of an an¬ 
cient mansion-house of the knights templars is still discerni¬ 
ble in a farm-house on the banks of the river, now called 
the Temple house; 28J miles east of London. 
STROUD’S BAY, a bay on the north-west coast of Bar- 
badoes; 4 miles north of Speightstown. 
STROUDEND, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Painswich, Gloucestershire. 
STROUDSBURG, a post village of the United States, in 
Northampton county, Pennsylvania. 
STROVE. The preterite of strive. —Having quite lost the 
way of nobleness, he strove to climb to the height of terrible¬ 
ness. Sidney. 
SROVISI, or Verdogna, a small town of Greece, in 
the south-east of the Morea, in the province of Zaconia. 
To STROUT, v. n. [strotzen, German.] To swell with 
an appearance of greatness ; to walk with affected dignity; 
to strut. This is commonly written strut, which seems 
more proper. To protuberate; to swell out. 
The daintie clover grows, of grass the only silke, 
That makes each udder strout abundantly with milke. 
Drayton. 
To STROUT, v. a. To swell out; to puff out; to enlarge 
by affectation.—-I will make a brief list of the particulars in 
an historical truth in nowise strouted, nor made greater by 
language. Bacon. 
To STROW, v. a. [See To Strew.] To spread by 
being scattered. 
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Angel forms lay entranc’d. 
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks 
In Vallombrosa. Milton. 
To spread by scattering; to besprinkle. 
Come, shepherds come, and strow with leaves the plain; 
Such funeral rites your Daphnis did ordain. Dry den. 
To spread.—There have been three years’ dearth of corn, 
and every place strow'd with beggars. Swift. —To scatter; 
to throw at random.—But little need to strow my store. 
Spenser. 
The tree in storms 
The glad earth about her strows. 
With treasure from her yielding boughs. Waller. 
STROW, a petty village in Bohemia, not far from the 
town of Sanz, remarkable for nothing but the partial sinking 
of the mountain on which it stands, on 21st March, 1820. 
The removal was gradual, and no lives were lost; but the 
walls of every house in the village gave way during, this sin¬ 
gular convulsion. 
STROW AN, a parish of Scotland, in Perthshire, united 
to Blair-Athol.—Also a parish of Perthshire, united to 
Monivaird. 
STROW AY, a small river of England, in Monmouth¬ 
shire, which falls into the Ebwith, at Kirton. 
To STROWL, v. n. To range; to wander. [See To 
Stroll.] ’Tis she who nightly strowls with saunt’ring 
pace. Gay. 
STROXTON, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 4 
miles south-south-west of Grantham. 
To STROY, v. a. [For destroy .] Dig garden, stray 
mallow, now may you at ease. Tusser. 
STROZZI (Tito Vespasiano), a Latin poet of the 15th 
century, belonging to the famous Florentine family of that 
name. He was one of four sons, whose father caused them 
to be well instructed in public literature. Tito studied in 
poetry and eloquence under Guarino, at Verona. He mar¬ 
ried in 1470, and was made a cavalier by duke Borso. He 
sustained some considerable offices at Ferrara, and was 
employed as the ambassador of duke Hercules at the papal 
and other courts. His death is said to have occurred in 
1505. He wrote many Latin poems, amorous, serious, and 
satirical; and having planned a long poem in praise of duke 
Borso, he wrote ten books, but did not live to finish it. 
Aldus printed a collection of his productions, but many 
more were left in MS. As an author he displayed a degree 
of facility and elegance, which was not common so soon 
after the revival of literature. 
STRUBBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 3 
miles north-by-west of Alford. 
STRUCK. The old preterite and participle passive of 
stri/ce. 
This message bear: the Trojans and their chief 
Bring holy peace, and beg the king’s relief; 
Struck with so great a name, and all on fire. 
The youth replies; whatever you require. Dry den. 
STRU'CKEN. The old participle passive of strike. 
Down fell the duke, his joints dissolv’d asunder, 
Blind with the light, and strucken dead with wonder. 
Fairfax. 
STRU'CTURE, s. [structure, Fr., structure, from 
structus, Latin.] Act of building; practice of building. 
His son builds on, and never is content. 
Till the last farthing is in structure spent. Dry den. 
Manner of building; form; make.—Several have gone 
about to infonn them, but for want of insight into the struc¬ 
ture and constitution of the terraqueous globe, have not 
given satisfaction. Woodward .—Edifice; building.—High 
on a rock of ice the structure lay. Pope. 
STRUDE, or Strode, s. A stock of breeding mares. 
Bailey. 
STRUENSEE (John Frederic), was the son of a clergy¬ 
man of Halle, in Saxony, and bom at Halle in 1737. At 
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