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A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny. Carlyle

Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian.

Discoverable by scrutiny, inquiry, or critical examination. [R.] r. H. More.

Search; scrutiny. [Obs.]

One who scrutinizes; a close examiner or inquirer. Ayliffe.

voting for the candidates for the whole department in which he lived, as disting. from scrutin d'arrondissement (da`rôN`des`mäN"), or voting by each elector for the candidate or candidates for his own arrondissement only.

A scrutinizer; specifically, an examiner of votes, as at an election.

mine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals. Whose votes they were obliged to scrutinize. Ayliffe. Thscrutinized his face the closest. G. W. Cable.

One who scrutinizes.

Closely examining, or inquiring; careful; sctrict. -- Scru"ti*nous*ly, adv.

on; minute inspection; critical observation. They that have designed exactness and deep scrutiny have taken some one part of nature. Sir M. Hale. Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view And narrower scrutiny. Milton.

A escritoire; a writing desk.

To swell; to bulge out. [R.] The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden.

Struthious.

A genus of birds including the African ostriches.

Same as Struthiones.

A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches.

Struthious.

Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe.

One who struts.