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The leader or commander of an army; a general.

A military government; government by military chiefs and an army.

A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army.

Of or pertaining to an army. [R.]

A soldier of the ancient Muscovite guard or Russian standing army; also, the guard itself.

Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea

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. Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shak.

Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.

A viceroy; a governor of a subah; also, a native captain in the British native army. [India]

the adjacent country in order to render it more difficult for the enemy to subsist their army. Robertson.

A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minor stores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of b…

adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country. My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 Cor. xii. 9.

The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.

ntist. -- Surgeon fish. See def. 2, above. -- Surgeon general. (a) In the United States army, the chief of the medical department. (b) In the British army, a surgeon ranking next below the chief of the medical department.

maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.

A person who follows an army, and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, and the like.

some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. [Written also synaloepha.]

subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like. This man was taken of the Jews. Acts xxiii. 27. Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take…

An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army. Milford.

To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.