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Concrete having within its mass a system of strengthening iron or steel supports. = Ferro-concrete.

; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet.

e. The rest refresh the scaly snakes that folDryden. To refresh the memory, to quicken or strengthen it, as by a reference, review, memorandum, or suggestion.

e; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town. Now lend assistance and relieve the poor. Dryden.

A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder, beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it.

ally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beame of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame. Totten.

Increasing; strengthening; -- a direction indicating a sudden increase of force (abbreviated rf., rfz.) Cf. Forzando, and Sforzando.

Strengthening. -- n. (Med.)

The act of strengthening. [Obs.] Coles.

r . . . sharpened his visual ray To objects distant far. Milton. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Burke.

The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore.

or pinion having flanges which form closed ends to the spaces between the teeth and thus strengthen the teeth by tying them together.

Fig.: Equipped; strengthened. When he sees Ourselves well sinewed to our defense. Shak.

A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle. Knight.

l; earnest; downright. [Obs. & R.] Frederick, the emperor, . . . has spared no expense in strengthening this city; since which time we find no solemn taking it by the Turks. Fuller.

United; consolidated; made firm; strengthened. [Obs.] O martyr souded for virginity! Chaucer.

A strengthening cross timber.

ch the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc. Spider ant. (Zoöl.) Same as Solitary ant, under Solitary. -- Spider crab (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of maioid crabs having a more or less triangular body and ten long leg…

A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.

An annular reënforce, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.