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A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.

acks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.

istance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.

An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris. "In the suburbs of a town." Chaucer. [London] could hardly have contained less t…

rength, With which he yoketh your rebellious necks, Razeth your cities, and subverts your towns. Shak. This would subvert the principles of all knowledge. Locke.

s been decreed, Both by the Syracusians and ourselves, To admit no traffic to our adverse towns. Shak. Parent of gods and men, propitious Jove! And you, bright synod of the powers above. Dryden.

eaky vessel will take in water. (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.] For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in. Chapman.

Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.

Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.

; a region; a country; a district. He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between. Milton.

demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun; as, this book; this way to town.

. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine. Thorn apple (Bot.), Jamestown weed. -- Thorn broom (Bot.), a shrub that produces thorns. -- Thorn hedge, a hedge of thorn-bearing trees or bushes. -- Thorn devil. (Zoöl.) See Moloch, 2. -- Thorn hopper (Zoöl.), a tree hopper (Thelia cratægi) which liv…

live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can never stand idle long together. Landor.

l. -- Toll hop, a toll dish. [Obs.] Crabb. -- Toll thorough (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost. Brande & C. -- Toll traverse (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for beasts driven across his ground; toll paid by a person for passing over…

In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail. Sir W. Scott.

A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies. Fuller.

One who is skilled in the science of topography; one who describes a particular place, town, city, or tract of land. Dante is the one authorized topographer of the mediæval hell. Milman.

The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.

for a short time. [R.] I made a little voyage round the lake, and touched on the several towns that lie on its coasts. Addison.

person would hardly be secure. Macaulay. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. Cowper.