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Corner :: Corner (n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock..

Force :: Force (n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.

Chase :: Chase (v. t.) To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away..

Necessitate :: Necessitate (v. t.) To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.

Force :: Force (n.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon..

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.

Compulsatory :: Compulsatory (a.) Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion..

Compelled :: Compelled (imp. & p. p.) of Compe.

Besiege :: Besiege (v. t.) To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset..

Interpleader :: Interpleader (n.) A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise bring against him..

Stick :: Stick (n.) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat..

Force :: Force (n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind..

Perforce :: Perforce (v. t.) To force; to compel.

Compelling :: Compelling (p. pr. & vb. n) of Compe.

Distringas :: Distringas (n.) A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor..

Driver :: Driver (n.) One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward..

Cogency :: Cogency (n.) The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.

Silence :: Silence (v. t.) To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.

Compeller :: Compeller (n.) One who compels or constrains.

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