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Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency. A distemper eminently armed from heaven. De Foe.

swear I use no art at all. Shak. Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength. Crabb.

Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.

Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.

To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease. "What signs avail " Milton. Words avail very l…

To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend. "Parliament would be backed by the people." Macaulay. Have still found it necessary to back and fortify their laws with rewards and punishments. South. The mate backed the captain manfully. Blackw. Mag.

That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability.

A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it. "Band and gusset and seam." Hood.

Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. Zeal too had a place among the rest, with a bandage over her eyes. Addison.

warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat. Basks at the fire his hairy strength. Milton.

rpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc. Batten door (Arch.), a door made of boards of the whole length of the door, secured by battens nailed crosswise.

Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.

A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail.

ge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.

To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation.

here of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one's strength.

To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

al plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.

To frighten or deter from accomplishing a purpose by making a show of confidence in one's strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off. [Colloq.]