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An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor. Stalk borer (Zoöl.), the larva of a noctuid moth (Gortyna nitela), which bores in the stalks of the raspberry, strawberry, tomato, asters, and many other garden plants, often doing much injury.

A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.

Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.

To strengthen. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Strengthener.

To make tense; to strengthen. Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood. Dryden.

Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate; as, sustentative citations or quotations. Sustentative functions (Physiol.), those functions of the body which affect its material composition and thus determine its mass.

A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides.

To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

ension, in a structure. -- Tension rod (Engin.), an iron rod used as a tension member to strengthen timber or metal framework, roofs, or the like.

To strengthen; to confirm. [Obs.] And this may to thicken other proofs. Shak.

e a higher tone or sound; to give a higher tone to; to make more intense; to heighten; to strengthen.

To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.

That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it; as;

s of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.

A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.

made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it.