adv. [ Pref. a- + wrong. ] Wrongly. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] A kind of cutting weapon similar to a cleaver, with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. (Zool.) A small Asiatic civet of the genus Arctilis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Drongos (Zool.) A passerine bird of the family Dicruridæ. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now let the headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy; as, a headstrong course. Dryden.

Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; untractable; stubborn; unruly; venturesome; heady. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Obstinacy. [ R. ] Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To throng or collect together. [ R. ] Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. prangen to pinch, press, LG. prange a stick, or W. procio to thrust, E. prowl, pang. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A sharp-pointed instrument. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prick it on a prong of iron. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) A sharp projection, as of an antler. (b) The fang of a tooth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The springbuck. (b) The pronghorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hoe with prongs to break the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabrée, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. & p. p. of Ring. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Rung (of a ladder). [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. ronger to gnaw. ] (Surg.) An instrument for removing small rough portions of bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Malay sārung. ] A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago. Balfour (Cyc. of India) [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong done by a person to himself. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Spring. Sprung. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Stronger superl. Strongest ] [ AS. strang, strong; akin to D. & G. streng strict, rigorous, OHG. strengi strong, brave, harsh, Icel. strangr strong, severe, Dan. streng, Sw. sträng strict, severe. Cf. Strength, Stretch, String. ] 1. Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous. [ 1913 Webster ]

That our oxen may be strong to labor. Ps. cxliv. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

Orses the strong to greater strength must yield. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her mother, ever strong against that match. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat. Heb. v. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

14. Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief. [ 1913 Webster ]

15. Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears. Heb. v. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was stronger in prophecy than in criticism. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

17. Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like her sweet voice is thy harmonious song,
As high, as sweet, as easy, and as strong. E. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

18. (Stock Exchange) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strong conjugation (Gram.), the conjugation of a strong verb; -- called also old conjugation, or irregular conjugation, and distinguished from the weak conjugation or regular conjugation. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Vigorous; powerful; stout; solid; firm; hardy; muscular; forcible; cogent; valid. See Robust. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A box of rigid and durable construction fitted with a lock, used for the purpose of protecting valuable items, such as jewelry or money.
Syn. -- lockbox. [ PJC ]

n. Violence; force; power. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat strong. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a vigorous mind; esp., having or affecting masculine qualities of mind; -- said of women. -- Strong"-mind`ed*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. An acid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Distilled or ardent spirits; intoxicating liquor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Zool.) Strongyloid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. Strongylus the genus (from Gr. &unr_; round) + -oid. ] (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Bp. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]

To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too throng. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. þrong, þrang, AS. geþrang, fr. þringan to crowd, to press; akin to OS. thringan, D. & G. dringen, OHG. dringan, Icel. þryngva, þröngva, Goth. þriehan, D. & G. drang a throng, press, Icel. þröng a throng, Lith. trenkti to jolt, tranksmas a tumult. Cf. Thring. ] 1. A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Throng, Multitude, Crowd. Any great number of persons form a multitude; a throng is a large number of persons who are gathered or are moving together in a collective body; a crowd is composed of a large or small number of persons who press together so as to bring their bodies into immediate or inconvenient contact. A dispersed multitude; the throngs in the streets of a city; the crowd at a fair or a street fight. But these distinctions are not carefully observed. [ 1913 Webster ]

So, with this bold opposer rushes on
This many-headed monster, multitude. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
The lowest of your throng. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I come from empty noise, and tasteless pomp,
From crowds that hide a monarch from himself. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Thronged p. pr. & vb. n. Thronging. ] To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have seen the dumb men throng to see him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings. [ 1913 Webster ]

Much people followed him, and thronged him. Mark v. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In throngs or crowds. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the native Malay name. ] (Zool.) A large East Indian nocturnal tree snake (Dipsas dendrophila). It is not venomous. [ 1913 Webster ]

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adv. In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ten censure wrong for one that writes amiss. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. wrang. See Wrong, a. ] That which is not right. Specifically: (a) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right. [ 1913 Webster ]

When I had wrong and she the right. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

One spake much of right and wrong. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong. (c) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person; any injury done to, or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right. [ 1913 Webster ]

Friend, I do thee no wrong. Matt. xx. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

As the king of England can do no wrong, so neither can he do right but in his courts and by his courts. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The obligation to redress a wrong is at least as binding as that of paying a debt. E. Evereth. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Wrongs, legally, are private or public. Private wrongs are civil injuries, immediately affecting individuals; public wrongs are crimes and misdemeanors which affect the community. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

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obs. imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. wrong, wrang, a. & n., AS. wrang, n.; originally, awry, wrung, fr. wringan to wring; akin to D. wrang bitter, Dan. vrang wrong, Sw. vrång, Icel. rangr awry, wrong. See Wring. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (Lev. xxi. 19). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine or human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not morally right; deviating from rectitude or duty; not just or equitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate for an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable; improper; incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end uppermost; to take the wrong way. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have deceived you both; I have directed you to wrong places. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent; not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Injurious; unjust; faulty; detrimental; incorrect; erroneous; unfit; unsuitable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Wronged p. pr. & vb. n. Wronging. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me. [ 1913 Webster ]

I rather choose
To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,
Than I will wrong such honorable men. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who injures another, or who does wrong. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Evil or wicked behavior or action. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. “Wrongers of the world.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wrongheaded. [ R. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not wrong; void or free from wrong. [ Obs. ] -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]

adv. In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. “And yet wouldst wrongly win.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault. [ 1913 Webster ]

The best great wrongnesses within themselves. Bp. Butler. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rightness or wrongness of this view. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]