Definition of curb

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Curb (v. t.) To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check..

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Padlock :: Padlock (n.) Fig.: A curb; a restraint.
Deck :: Deck (v.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
Curb :: Curb (v. i.) To bend; to crouch; to cringe.
Curb :: Curb (v. t.) To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check..
Rein :: Rein (n.) The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse..
Curb :: Curb (n.) A curbstone.
Limit :: Limit (v. t.) A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
Cucurbit :: Cucurbit (n.) Alt. of Cucurbit.
Curbless :: Curbless (a.) Having no curb or restraint.
Curbing :: Curbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cur.
Bridle :: Bridle (v. t.) To restrain, guide, or govern, with, or as with, a bridle; to check, curb, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to bridle a muse..
Ecballium :: Ecballium (n.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared..
Cucurbitaceous :: Cucurbitaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples..
Bridoon :: Bridoon (n.) The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein..
Curb :: Curb (n.) A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in..
Beard :: Beard (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle..
Curb :: Curb (n.) That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse..
Collar :: Collar (n.) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft..
Squashed :: Squash (n.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind..
Pumpkin :: Pumpkin (n.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion..
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