Verb

(head)

(obsolete)

* {{quote-book, year=1884, author=various, title=Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=My faither had strucken at it, when the mad animal plunged its horns into the side o' the mare, and he fell to the ground. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Wherat all the people wondred greatly, and laughed me to scorne: but I beeing strucken in a cold sweat, crept between their legs for shame and escaped away. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1667, author=John Milton, title=Paradise Lost, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=They destitute and bare Of all their virtue: Silent, and in face Confounded, long they sat, as strucken mute: Till Adam, though not less than Eve abashed, At length gave utterance to these words constrained. }}

* Shakespeare

He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.