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Titter :: Titter (n.) A restrained laugh.

Let :: Let (v. t.) To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent..

Wanton :: Wanton (n.) One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet.

Subbronchial :: Subbreed (n.) A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed.

Deliver :: Deliver (v. t.) To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death..

Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain..

Strain :: Strain (a.) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.

Wildness :: Wildness (n.) The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.

Free :: Free (superl.) Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty..

Detention :: Detention (n.) Confinement; restraint; custody.

Distress :: Distress (n.) The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc..

Stress :: Stress (n.) Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained..

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..

Bated :: Bated (a.) Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath..

Strained :: Strainably (adv.) Violently.

Constrainedly :: Constrainedly (adv.) By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner.

Licentiate :: Licentiate (n.) One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor..

Strainer :: Strainer (n.) One who strains.

Upseek :: Upseek (v. i.) To seek or strain upward.

Liberal :: Liberal (a.) Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious.

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