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Incoacted :: Incoacted (a.) Not compelled; unconstrained.

Easiness :: Easiness (n.) Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining..

Figure :: Figure (n.) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.

Efforce :: Efforce (v. t.) To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.

Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To limit; to confine; to restrict.

Constraintive :: Constraintive (a.) Constraining; compulsory.

Strain :: Straining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strai.

Immodest :: Immodest (a.) Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc..

Truss :: Truss (n.) An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style..

Hold :: Hold (n. i.) To restrain one's self; to refrain.

Distraint :: Distraint (n.) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state..

Famish :: Famish (v. t.) To force or constrain by famine.

Uneasy :: Uneasy (a.) Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing.

Restrainable :: Restrainable (a.) Capable of being restrained; controllable.

Stintedness :: Stintance (n.) Restraint; stoppage.

Strain :: Strain (a.) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it..

Cohibit :: Cohibit (v. t.) To restrain.

Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams..

Cullender :: Cullender (n.) A strainer. See Colander.

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