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Something cleansing. The strong abstersive of some heroic magistrate. Milton.

The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.

The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. Strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder. Shak.

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

Strongly inclined; -- with to. [Obs.] Bacon.

A strong declaration; affirmation. Cowper.

Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror. He looks behind him with affright, and forward with despair. Goldsmith.

rishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.

A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque. [Mexico and Spanish America.]

Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfeet. -- n.

Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working)

of helium) having enormous velocities but small masses. They are slightly deflected by a strong magnetic or electric field.

ons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

A tall, strong, masculine woman; a virago.

pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.

Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something. I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony. Evelyn. Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain. Cowper.

One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.

A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals.