n. A frequent need to urinate, when the bladder is largely empty or with little urine production.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.
n. A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Scanty micturition with painful sense of spasm.
n. In horticulture, a disease in plants produced by tight ligatures.
Word Usage
"This kind of strangury recurs by stated periods, and sometimes arises to so great a degree, that convulsion or temporary madness terminates each period of it."