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Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.

A fortress; a fortification for defense. [Obs.] Bailey.

To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.

A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.

A fortress; also, a royal palace. Prescott.

r; a gallant. [R.] Milton. It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress. But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Ex. vi. 9. Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child. Jer. iv. 31.

A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium. Dunglison.

dvanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

A flying buttress. Gwilt.

, or which is distinguished from the rest (known as the thesis) of the foot by a greater stress of voice. Hermann.

To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak.

Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things. "Thy auspicious mistress." Shak. "Auspicious gales." Pope.

The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking. Cowell.

The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. [Obs.]

An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.

"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.

lls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.

article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in,…