strout
verb/stɹaʊt/
Etymology From Middle English. See etymology of the corresponding sense of strut
1
Obsolete To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.
- I will make a brief list of the particulars themselves in an historical truth , no ways strouted , nor made greater by languagea. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
2
Alternative, Obsolete Alternative form of strut (“to swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out”).
- The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke) That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 222: