Definition of Sturdied

1. sturdy [adj] - See also: sturdy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sturdied

stupor
stuporlike
stuporous
stuporously
stuporousness
stupors
stupose
stupour
stuprate
stuprated
stuprates
stupration
stuprations
stuprous
stur
sture
sturgeon
sturgeonlike
sturgeons
sturionian
sturionians
sturm and drang

Literary usage of Sturdied

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sheep: Their Breeds, Management and Diseases by William Youatt (1867)
"The victim of these diseases can scarcely be induced to move; the sturdied sheep is wandering about or scampering everywhere, without apparent motive or ..."

2. Sheep Husbandry: With an Account of the Different Breeds, and General by Henry Stephens Randall (1856)
"By-and-by the sturdied sheep commences a rotatory motion, even while grazing, and always in one way, and with the head turned on the same side. ..."

3. Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts: In All the Useful and Domestic Arts by Colin MacKenzie (1854)
"1 mentioned in these Transactions, that when I was я shepherd boy, for a number of years I probed the skull of every sturdied sheep that I could lay my ..."

4. Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts: In All the Useful and Domestic Arts by Colin MacKenzie (1867)
"... for a number of years I probed the skall of every sturdied sheep that I could lay my handa on, without any regard to whom they belonged, and likewise ..."

5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1850)
"... for struggling girded, The holier heights of thought would dare to scale ; Then would their puny strength be grown and sturdied In calmer solitudes and ..."

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