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. στρουθύς 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. Ibid., Micah i. 8. Ibid. (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.
