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Bind :: Bind (v. i.) To exert a binding or restraining influence.

Colature :: Colature (n.) The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer.

Constraintive :: Constraintive (a.) Constraining; compulsory.

Rein :: Rein (n.) Hence, an instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing; government; restraint..

Control :: Control (v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.

Coaction :: Coaction (n.) Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling..

Distraining :: Distraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distrai.

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development..

Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him..

Obligate :: Obligate (v. t.) To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive..

Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc..

Overstraining :: Overstraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overstrai.

Namation :: Namation (n.) A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding.

Collar :: Collar (n.) A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars..

Unstrained :: Unstrained (a.) Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk..

Limitation :: Limitation (v. t.) That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought..

Strain :: Straining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strai.

Braid :: Braid (v. t.) To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations..

Strain :: Strain (v. i.) To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil..

Easiness :: Easiness (n.) Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining..

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