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

proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.

To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause. Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns. Col. iii. 16. I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy. Milton.

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.

Amaryllidaceæ) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexi…

The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old. Nor wrong mine age with this indignity. Shak.

al; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

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

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

To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong. [Obs.] Chaucer.

oquoian 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.

Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged. The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Macaulay.

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

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

s, 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.

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