[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

straw \straw\, v. t.
   to spread or scatter. see strew, and strow. --chaucer.
   1913 webster
see also:
strew strow 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

straw \straw\, n. oe. straw, stre, stree, as. stre'aw, from
   the root of e. strew; akin to ofries. str=e, d. stroo, g.
   stroh, ohg. str=o, icel. str=a, dan. straa, sw. stra.
   root166. 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.
      1913 webster

   2. the gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of
      grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
      1913 webster

   3. anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing;
      a mere trifle.
      1913 webster

            i set not a straw by thy dreamings.   --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   note: straw is often used in the formation of self-explaining
         compounds; as, straw-built, straw-crowned,
         straw-roofed, straw-stuffed, and the like.
         1913 webster

   man of straw, an effigy formed by stuffing the garments of
      a man with straw; hence, a fictitious person; an
      irresponsible person; a puppet.
      1913 webster
see also:
strew man of straw 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

straw
     adj : 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, stubble
     3: a yellow tint; yellow diluted with white syn: pale yellow
     4: a thin paper or plastic tube used to such liquids into the
        mouth syn: 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
see also:
chaff husk shuck stalk stubble pale yellow 
drinking straw strew 

[4] : 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

[5] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

straw
   used in brick-making ex. 5:7-18. used figuratively in job
   41:27; isa. 11:7; 25:10; 65:25.
   

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