A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.
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A fortress; also, a royal palace.
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A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fi…
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A place of defense; a fortress; a garrison; a fortress; a garrison or guardhouse.
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A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.
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To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.
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See Defense.
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Alt. of Defence
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To inclose. See Inclose.
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Same as Forgather.
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To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.
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To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.
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To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a to…
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To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…
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Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…
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Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
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To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
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The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
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To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
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The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.
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The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.
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A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
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A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
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A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.
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A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.
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One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
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The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.
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To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.
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A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
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A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.
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