Definition of Strowings

1. strowing [n] - See also: strowing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strowings

stroup
stroupan
stroupans
stroups
strout
strouted
strouting
strouts
strove
strow
strowed
strowen
strower
strowers
strowing
strowings
strowl
strowled
strowling
strowls
strown
strows
stroy
stroyed
stroyer
stroyers
stroying
stroys
strozzapreti
strs

Literary usage of Strowings

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

1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1859)
"Why would you venture so fondly on the strowings, There's mighty matter in them, I assure you, And in the spreading of a bough-pot." B. and F. Coxcomb. iv. ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"A Book of Studies and Strowings. Philadelphia, 1893, XIV. 292 pp. 8vo. Treats of the possibility of happiness, the definition of happiness, the relative ..."

3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"Halfe for lights, both waxe and Tallow, weh halfe all winter is near 5' a day. Halfe for coles to all the Roomes. Halfe for rushes, flowers, and strowings ..."

4. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1849)
"Halfe for rushes, flowers, and strowings on the stage. Halfe for all the boyes' new gloves at every new play, and every revived play not lately plaid. ..."

5. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... On strowings laid, of never-fading flowers, Which on this hill's serenest top had grown, She in sweet dreams did pass the silent hours; Upon her a light ..."

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