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Discountenance :: Discountenance (v. t.) To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage..

Bond :: Bond (n.) The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint..

Filter :: Filter (n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air..

Fetter :: Fetter (n.) Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.

Tension :: Tension (a.) The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx..

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast..

Hamshackle :: Hamshackle (v. t.) To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb..

Unfetter :: Unfetter (v. t.) To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind..

Biggin :: Biggin (n.) A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor..

Trammeler :: Trammeler (n.) One who, or that which, trammels or restrains..

Interdict :: Interdict (n.) A prohibition of the pope, by which the clergy or laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church..

Reinless :: Reinless (a.) Not having, or not governed by, reins; hence, not checked or restrained..

Enforcement :: Enforcement (n.) That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied..

Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb..

Curb :: Curb (n.) That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse..

Restrained :: Restrained (imp. & p. p.) of Restrai.

Incorrection :: Incorrection (n.) Want of correction, restraint, or discipline..

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..

Strenger :: Strene (n.) Race; offspring; stock; breed; strain.

Bind :: Bind (v. i.) To exert a binding or restraining influence.

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