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Destitute of strength. Boyle.

See Strengthener.

Having strength; strong. [Obs.]

Strenuousness; activity. [Obs.] Chapman.

Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country. And spirit-stirring wine, that strenuous makes. Chapman. Strenuous, continuous labor is pain. I. Taylor. -- Stren"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Str…

Subterraneous. [Obs.]

Not perfectly transparent.

Being above ground, or above the earth. [R.]

A suprarenal capsule. Suprarenal capsules (Anat.), two small bodies of unknown function in front of, or near, the kidneys in most vertebrates. Also called renal capsules, and suprarenal bodies.

The state of being sure; certainty. For more sureness he repeats it. Woodward. The law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Emerson.

ther; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.

The person to whom a surrender is made. Mozley & W.

One who surrenders.

One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.

Surrender. [Obs.]

See Siren. [R.]

Same as Bothrenchyma.

A harmless lizard of the Gecko family (Platydactylus Mauritianicus) found in Southern Europe and adjacent countries, especially among old walls and ruins.

See Tarantism.

See Tarantula.