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Temperance :: Temperance (v. t.) Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors..

Fit :: Fit (n.) In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus..

Stint :: Stint (v. t.) Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

Overstrain :: Overstrain (v. i.) To strain one's self to excess.

Easiness :: Easiness (n.) Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc..

Strain :: Strain (n.) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career..

Bound :: Bound (p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.

Check :: Check (v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint.

Riot :: Riot (n.) Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.

Dam :: Dam (v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.

Enforcive :: Enforcive (a.) Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.

Stintedness :: Stintance (n.) Restraint; stoppage.

Tentiginous :: Tentiginous (a.) Stiff; stretched; strained.

Burst :: Burst (v. t.) To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors..

Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb..

Transcolate :: Transcolate (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve..

Freely :: Freely (adv.) In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.

Incontinent :: Incontinent (a.) Unable to restrain natural evacuations.

Revoke :: Revoke (v. t.) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

Dump :: Dump (v. t.) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.

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