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n.
A huge bow fixed on the wall of a fortified town for casting javelins.
v. t.
To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
n.
A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
n.
One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.
n.
That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.
a.
Having fortitude; courageous.
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Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
prep.
Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the law; the condition under which one enters upon an office; under the necessity of obeying the laws; under vows of chastity.
v. t.
To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
imp. & p. p.
of Fortify
n.
A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
n.
One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.
n.
The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.
v. t.
To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish.
n.
A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
v. i.
To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Fortify
a.
Capable of being fortified.
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Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.
n.
A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
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