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Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To draw back toghtly, as a rein..

Liberty :: Liberty (n.) The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing.

Cage :: Cage (n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes..

Unstrain :: Unstrain (v. t.) To relieve from a strain; to relax.

Familiarity :: Familiarity (n.) The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity..

Indulgent :: Indulgent (a.) Prone to indulge; yielding to the wishes, humor, or appetites of those under one's care; compliant; not opposing or restraining; tolerant; mild; favorable; not severe; as, an indulgent parent..

Machine :: Machine (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to

Check :: Check (n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff..

Compellable :: Compellable (a.) Capable of being compelled or constrained.

Free :: Free (superl.) Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.

Chainless :: Chainless (a.) Having no chain; not restrained or fettered.

Wanton :: Wanton (v. i.) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic..

Distress :: Distress (n.) To seize for debt; to distrain.

Release :: Release (n.) To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go..

Constrainer :: Constrainer (n.) One who constrains.

Fast :: Fast (v.) Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver..

Strain :: Strain (n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement..

Continent :: Continent (a.) Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.

Intemperately :: Intemperately (adv.) In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint.

Liberty :: Liberty (n.) Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion..

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