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To inclose or fortify as with a wall. Spenser.

persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers. Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak.

To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify. "Theodosius having manned his soul with proper reflections." Addison.

To fortify or inclose with a mound.

To prepare for defense; to fortify. [Obs.]

To fortify; to strengthen. [Obs.]

; to cuddle up; to settle, as in a nest; to harbor; to take shelter. Their purpose was to fortify in some strong place of the wild country, and there nestle till succors came. Bacon.

To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.

To fortify with pointed stakes.

To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection. [Obs.] Fotherby.

The act of fortifying or guarding against objections. [Obs.]

To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire. [Archaic] Chapman. "Rampired walls of gold." R. Browning.

commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory.

A fortifying anew, or a second time. Mitford.

To strengthen again; to fortify anew.

To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.

To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak.

To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify. The terror of his name that walls us in. Denham.