† strucion Obs.
Forms: 3 strucion, 4 strucioun, struccon, 5 struccyon. Also in med.L. form 4 strucyo, 4–5 strucio, 6 struchio.
[ad. med.L. strūciōnem, a miswriting of L. strūthiōnem, nom. strūthio, a. Gr. στρουθίων, f. στρουθός sparrow (ὁ µέγας σ. the ostrich).]
The ostrich. (By some writers confused with the stork.)
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 132 Þe steorc [MS. C. strucion, MS. T. ostrice]. c 1340 Hampole Prose Tr. 9 Þay are lyke till a fowle þat es callede strucyo or storke. 1382 Wyclif Job xxxix. 13 The fether of a strucioun [1388 ostriche] is lic to the fetheris of a ierfalcoun. ― Micah i. 8. 1388 ― Lev. xi. 16. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 11 Salomon..closede Astructio his bryd in a glas, and þe struccon brouȝte a worme þat hatte Thamir out of wildernesse [1432–50 MS. Harl. Strucio in both places; 1485 Caxton struccyon]. c 1400 Three Kings Cologne 46 Þe which is clepyd strucio. c 1500 Kennedy Passion of Christ 26 As struttioun [MS. A ? structioun] stif, as tigar tiranus. 1592 Lodge Euphues Shadow B 1, The birde Struchio [hath] a big body, but weake wings. |