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Keeping :: Keeping (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

Swingdevil :: Swing (n.) Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.

Measure :: Measure (n.) Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure..

Bound :: Bound (n.) The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary..

Restraining :: Restraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Restrai.

Silence :: Silence (v. t.) To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel..

Poinder :: Poinder (n.) One who distrains property.

Fierce :: Fierce (superl.) Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind..

Strait :: Straint (n.) Overexertion; excessive tension; strain.

Runaway :: Runaway (n.) One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive..

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To rend; to tear.

Duress :: Duress (n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense..

Pedigree :: Pedigree (n.) A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse..

Cadence :: Cadence (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord..

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

Roundelay :: Roundelay (n.) A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively.

Bottle :: Bottle (v. t.) To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath..

Prison :: Prison (v. t.) To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty..

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

Rein :: Rein (v. t.) To restrain; to control; to check.

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