strout

present singular third person strouts · participle present strouting · participle past strouted · past strouted

1. obsoletetransitiveTo cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly

   I will make a brief list of the particulars themselves in an historical truth , no ways strouted , nor made greater by language

   a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC

   Synonyms: strut

2. alternativeintransitiveobsoleteAlternative form of strut (“to swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out”).

   strouting dugs that paggles to the ground

   c. 1589, Robert Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay

   2 more examples

   The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke) That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.

   1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 222

   their belly strouted out big like a great tun

   1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5)

plural Strouts

1. A surname.