STRAW
\stɹˈɔː], \stɹˈɔː], \s_t_ɹ_ˈɔː]\
Definitions of STRAW
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
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a thin paper or plastic tube used to such liquids into the mouth
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a yellow tint; yellow diluted with white
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plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
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of a pale yellow color like straw; straw colored
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spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all over the carpet"
By Princeton University
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material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
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a thin paper or plastic tube used to such liquids into the mouth
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a yellow tint; yellow diluted with white
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plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
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of a pale yellow color like straw; straw colored
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
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A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
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The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The stalk on which grain grows, and from which it is thrashed a quantity of them when thrashed: anything worthless.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The stalk or stem of certain species of grain, as wheat, barley, &c.; a mass of such stalks after being cut and thrashed; anything proverbially worthless.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The stalks or stems of corn after being thrashed, as a bundle or heap of straw-usually in the singular form with a plural sense; a single stalk or straw; anything proverbially worthless.
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To cover with straw; to strew, which see.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.