Definition of strong

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Strong (superl.) Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.

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Strong-water :: Strong-minded (a.) Having a vigorous mind; esp., having or affecting masculine qualities of mind; -- said of women..
Strengthen :: Strengthen (v. t.) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority..
Tope :: Tope (v. i.) To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess.
Mum :: Mum (n.) A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany..
Trestle :: Trestle (n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like..
Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored..
Passive :: Passive (a.) Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive..
Place :: Place (n.) A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country..
Empassion :: Empassion (v. t.) To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion.
Sicer :: Sicer (n.) A strong drink; cider.
Vaticanist :: Vaticanist (n.) One who strongly adheres to the papal authority; an ultramontanist.
Solid :: Solid (a.) Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall..
Violent :: Violent (a.) Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease..
Strongish :: Stronghold (n.) A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
High-proof :: High-proof (a.) Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits..
Bitts :: Bitts (n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc..
Palpitate :: Palpitate (v. i.) To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement..
Epanorthosis :: Epanorthosis (n.) A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act!.
Sinewed :: Sinewed (a.) Furnished with sinews; as, a strong-sinewed youth..
Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged..
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