=Strong= (_Dr._), a benevolent old schoolmaster, to whom David Copperfield was sent whilst living with Mr. Wickfield. The old doctor doted on his young wife, Annie, and supported her scapegrace cousin, Jack Maldon.--C. Dickens, _David Copperfield_ (1849). =Strong Men and Women.= Antæos, Atlas, Dorsănês, the Indian Herculês, Guy, earl of Warwick, Herculês, Macĕris, son of Amon, Rustam, the Persian Herculês, Samson, Starchatĕrus, the Swede (first Christian century). BROWN (_Miss Phœbe_), about five feet, six inches in height, well proportioned, round-faced and ruddy. She could carry fourteen score, and could lift a hundredweight with each hand at the same time. She was fond of poetry and music, and her chief food was milk.--W. Hutton. MILO, of Crotōna, could carry on his shoulders a four-year-old bullock, and kill it with a single blow of his fist. On one occasion, the pillar which supported the roof of a house gave way, and Milo held up the whole weight of the building with his hands. POLYD´AMAS, the athlete. He killed a lion with a blow of his fist, and could stop a chariot in full career with one hand. TOPHAM (_Thomas_) of London (1710-1749). He could lift three hogsheads, or 1836 lbs.; could heave a horse over a turnpike gate; and could lift two hundredweight with his little finger. =Strongback=, one of the seven attendants of Fortunio. He could never be overweighted, and could fell a forest in a few hours without fatigue.--Comtesse D’Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ (“Fortunio,” 1682). The brothers Grimm have introduced the tale of “Fortunio” in their _Goblins_. =Strongbow=, Gilbert de Clare, who succeeded to the title of his brother, the earl of Hertford, in 1138, and was created earl of Pembroke (died 1149). Henry II. called him a “false” or “pseudo-earl.” _Strongbow_ (Richard of Strigal) was Richard de Clare, earl of Pembroke, son of Gilbert de Clare. He succeeded Dermot, king of Leinster, hiss father-in-law, in 1170, and died 1176. The earl of Strigale then, our Strongbow, first that won Wild Ireland with the sword. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xviii. (1613). =Struldbrugs=, the inhabitants of Luggnagg, who never die. He had reached that period of life ... which ... entitles a man to admission into the ancient order of Struldbrugs.--Swift, _Gulliver’s Travels_ “Laputa,” (1726). =Strutt= (_Lord_), the king of Spain; originally Charles II. (who died without issue), but also applied to his successor, Philippe, duc d’Anson, called “Philip, Lord Strutt.” I need not tell you of the great quarrels that happened in our neighborhood since the death of the late Lord Strutt; how the parson [_Cardinal Portocarero_] ... got him to settle his estate upon his cousin, Philip Baboon [_Bourbon_], to the great disappointment of his cousin, Squire South [_Charles of Austria_].--Dr. Arbuthnot, _History of John Bull_, i (1712).