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The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.

The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

Ornamental work, mostly carved in olivewood, decorated with inlay, made at or near Sorrento, Italy. Hence, more rarely, jig-saw work and the like done anywhere.

Southern. [Obs.] "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.

The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.

Vegetable tissue composed of thin-walled rounded cells, -- a modification of parenchyma.

To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Pet. i. 2).

A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator; -- named from the inventor.

p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled. All the ground with purple blood was sprent. Spenser.

The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.

Stepfather or stepmother.

A pipe wrench having an adjustable L-shaped jaw piece sliding in a sleeve that is pivoted to, and loosely embraces, the handle. Pressure on the handle increases the grip.

Race; offspring; stock; breed; strain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, the original compar. & superl. of Strong. [Obs.] Two of us shall strenger be than one. Chaucer.

ertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment. All his [Samson's] strength in his hairs were. Chaucer. Thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty. Milton.

To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority. Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shak.

One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.

That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster (Med.), a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.

Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.

A stronghold. [Obs.]