Strong

strong, adj. firm: having physical power: hale, healthy: able to endure: solid: well fortified: having wealth or resources: moving with rapidity: impetuous: earnest: having great vigour, as the mind: forcible: energetic, determined, positive: affecting the senses, as smell and taste, forcibly offensive or intense in quality, pungent: loud, stentorian: hard, indigestible: having a quality in a great degree: intoxicating, rich in alcohol: bright: intense: well established, firm, steadily going upward without fluctuation: ( gram. ) inflecting by a change of radical vowel instead of by syllabic addition.— n. Strong′hold , a place strong to hold out against attack: a fastne or fortified place: a fortre .— adj. Strong′-knit , firmly jointed or compacted.— adv. Strong′ly .— adj. Strong′-mind′ed , having a vigorous mind: unfeminine, applied to women who unsex themselves to obtain the freedom of men.— ns. Strong′-mind′edne ; Strong′-room , a firmly secured place where valuables are stored; Strong′-wa′ter , ardent spirits.— Strong escape ( Shak. ), an escape accomplished by strength. [A.S. strang , strong; Ice. strangr , Ger. streng , tight.] Strongyle to Sumac fāte, fär; mē, hėr; mīne; mōte; mūte; mōōn; th en.