straw
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
straw
adj 1: of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored
n 1: plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as
fodder
2: material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of
stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds [syn:
{chaff}, {husk}, {shuck}, {stalk}, {straw}, {stubble}]
3: a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
[syn: {pale yellow}, {straw}, {wheat}]
4: a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the
mouth [syn: {straw}, {drinking straw}]
v 1: cover or provide with or as if with straw; "cows were
strawed to weather the snowstorm"
2: spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all
over the carpet" [syn: {strew}, {straw}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Straw \Straw\, n. [OE. straw, stre, stree, AS. stre['a]w, from
the root of E. strew; akin to OFries. str[=e], D. stroo, G.
stroh, OHG. str[=o], Icel. str[=a], Dan. straa, Sw. str[*a].
[root]166. See {Strew}.]
1. A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc.,
especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of
buckwheat, beans, and pease.
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2. The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of
grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
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3. Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing;
a mere trifle.
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I set not a straw by thy dreamings. --Chaucer.
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Note: Straw is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, straw-built, straw-crowned,
straw-roofed, straw-stuffed, and the like.
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{Man of straw}, an effigy formed by stuffing the garments of
a man with straw; hence, a fictitious person; an
irresponsible person; a puppet.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
261 Moby Thesaurus words for "straw":
a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, adjutage,
afterglow, afterimage, air, anthrophore, aureate, auric, axis,
bagatelle, balance, barley, bauble, bean, beige, bestrew, bibelot,
bird seed, bit, bole, bran, brass farthing, broadcast, bubble,
buff, buff-yellow, butt, butt end, button, canary, canary-yellow,
candle ends, cane, carpophore, cat food, catheter, caudex,
caulicle, caulis, cent, chaff, chicken feed, chip, chop, citron,
citron-yellow, cobweb, cork, corn, cream, creamy, culm, curio,
debris, detritus, disseminate, dog food, down, drainpipe, dust,
eatage, ecru, efflux tube, end, ensilage, ether, fag end, fairy,
fallow, farce, farthing, feather, feed, fig, filings, fire hose,
flaxen, fleabite, flue, flue pipe, fluff, foam, fodder, folderol,
footstalk, forage, fossil, fribble, frippery, froth, funicule,
funiculus, funnel, fuzz, garden hose, gas pipe, gaud, gewgaw,
gilded, gilt, gimcrack, gold, gold-colored, golden, gossamer,
grain, hair, halfpenny, haulm, hay, hill of beans, holdover, hose,
hosepipe, husks, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery,
leafstalk, leavings, leftovers, lemon, lemon-yellow, luteolous,
lutescent, mash, meal, minikin, mockery, molehill, mote, nipple,
oats, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous,
ochry, odds and ends, offscourings, or, organ pipe, orts, parings,
pasturage, pasture, pedicel, peduncle, peppercorn, pet food,
petiole, petiolule, petiolus, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff,
pinprick, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, primrose,
primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, provender, rags, rap, red cent,
reed, reed pipe, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant,
residue, residuum, rest, roach, row of pins, rubbish, ruins, rump,
rush, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow,
sand-colored, sandy, sawdust, scatter, scourings, scraps, scratch,
scratch feed, seedstalk, shadow, shavings, shit, siamese,
siamese connection, silage, siphon, slops, snap, sneeshing,
snorkel, soil pipe, sou, sow, spear, spire, sponge, spume, stalk,
standpipe, steam pipe, stem, stipe, stock, straw-colored, stubble,
stump, survival, sweepings, swill, tap, thistledown, tigella, toy,
trace, trifle, trinket, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet,
tubulure, tuppence, two cents, twopence, vestige, waste,
waste pipe, water pipe, wheat, whim-wham, xanthic, xanthous,
yellow, yellowish
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