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A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.

A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.…

The strong point; that in which one excels. fort"a The construction of a fable seems by no means the forte of our modern poetical writers. Jeffrey.

ce; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.

Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty. Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. Gal. ii. 10. Nor do we find him forward to be sounded. Shak.

Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smeelling.

A strong or sweet scent. [Obs. & Illegitimate.] Sir T. Herbert.

Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women. Man is frail, and prone to evil. Jer. Taylor.

build of a person. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak. No frames could be strong enough to endure it. Prescott.

Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.

To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.

Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce. [Obs.] King.

Having large and strong or complete wings. Shak.

Is. lxv. 11. His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. Macaulay.

A strong, musty smell; mustiness.

Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way. Galactic circle (Astron.), the great circle of the heavens, to which the course of the galaxy most nearly conforms. Herschel. -- Galactic poles, the poles of the galactic circle.

of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish.

A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.

A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.

It is a white, crystalline substance, C6H2(HO)3.CO2H, with an astringent taste, and is a strong reducing agent, as employed in photography. It is usually prepared from tannin, and both give a dark color with iron salts, forming tannate and gallate of iron, which are the essential ingredients of common black ink.…