Search the Dictionary

Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

98,828 entries. Headwords are matched first, then definition text.

1,113 words match “FORCE”

One who enforces.

Excessive force; violence.

PERFORCE adv. 2 definitions

By force; of necessary; at any rate. Shak.

See Reënforce. [Obs.] Bailey.

REENFORCE v. 2 definitions

To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. [Written also reinforce.]

REENFORCED CONCRETE n.

Concrete having within its mass a system of strengthening iron or steel supports. = Ferro-concrete.

REENFORCEMENT n. 2 definitions

The act of reënforcing, or the state of being reënforced.

REINFORCE v. 2 definitions

See Reënforce, v. t.

REINFORCEMENT n.

See Reënforcement.

off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential ad…

To abandon. [Obs.] Enforced the kingdom to aband. Spenser.

; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Deut. xxxiv. 7.

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force. Sir J. Herschel.

Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to e…

Ability of body or mind; force; vigor. [Obs. or R.]

ABOLITIONISM n.

The principles or measures of abolitionists. Wilberforce.

celerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity. -- Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion. Nichol.

A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. Kent.