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Monotonist :: Monotonist (n.) One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced.

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

Strain :: Strain (n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

Constrain :: Constrain (v. t.) To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.

Unmew :: Unmew (v. t.) To release from confinement or restraint.

Belt :: Belt (n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle.

Free :: Free (superl.) Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.

Modest :: Modest (a.) Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man..

Sifter :: Sifter (n.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell/ of the beak..

Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like..

Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.

Tone :: Tone (n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone..

Distrainer :: Distrainer (n.) Same as Distrainor.

Headstrong :: Headstrong (a.) Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.

Opposition :: Opposition (n.) The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance..

Bold :: Bold (n.) In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent..

Flourish :: Flourish (v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude..

Moderation :: Moderation (n.) The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint..

Strain :: Strain (v. i.) To make violent efforts.

Dacapo :: Dacapo () From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated..

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