SPage 864
- English Word Strong Definition Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.
- English Word Strong Definition Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.
- English Word Strong Definition Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.
- English Word Strong Definition Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.
- English Word Strong Definition Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.
- English Word Strong Definition Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination.
- English Word Strong Definition Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful.
- English Word Strong Definition Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.
- English Word Strong Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak.
- English Word Strong Definition Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.
- English Word Strong-minded Definition Having a vigorous mind; esp., having or affecting masculine qualities of mind; -- said of women.
- English Word Strong-water Definition An acid.
- English Word Strong-water Definition Distilled or ardent spirits; intoxicating liquor.
- English Word Stronghand Definition Violence; force; power.
- English Word Stronghold Definition A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
- English Word Strongish Definition Somewhat strong.
- English Word Strongly Definition In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
- English Word Strongylid Definition Strongyloid.
- English Word Strongyloid Definition Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious.
- English Word Strongyloid Definition A strongyloid worm.