16. Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a
strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination.
I was stronger in prophecy than in criticism.
Dryden. 17. Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful.
Like her sweet voice is thy harmonious song,
As high, as sweet, as easy, and as strong.
E. Smith. 18. (Stock Exchange) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.
19. (Gram.) (a) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation
in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of
the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk.
Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak. (b) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain
the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings
most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are
irregular. F. A. March.
Strong conjugation (Gram.), the conjugation of a strong verb; — called also old, or irregular, conjugation,
and distinguished from the weak, or regular, conjugation.
Strong is often used in the formation of self- explaining compounds; as, strong-backed, strong-based,
strong-bodied, strong-colored, strong-fisted, strong-handed, strong-ribbed, strong-smelling, strong-
voiced, etc.
Syn. — Vigorous; powerful; stout; solid; firm; hardy; muscular; forcible; cogent; valid. See Robust.
Stronghand
(Strong"hand`) n. Violence; force; power.
It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand.
Sir W. Raleigh. Stronghold
(Strong"hold`) n. A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
Strongish
(Strong"ish), a. Somewhat strong.
Strongly
(Strong"ly), adv. In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with
great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
Strong-minded
(Strong"-mind`ed) a. Having a vigorous mind; esp., having or affecting masculine qualities
of mind; — said of women. — Strong"-mind`ed*ness, n.
Strong-water
(Strong"-wa`ter) n.
1. An acid. [Obs.]
2. Distilled or ardent spirits; intoxicating liquor.
Strongylid
(Stron"gy*lid) a. & n. (Zoöl.) Strongyloid.
Strongyloid
(Stron"gy*loid) a. [NL. Strongylus the genus (from Gr. round) + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like, or pertaining
to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals.
Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very
injurious. - - n. A strongyloid worm.
