Definition of strain

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Strain (v. i.) To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil..

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Half-strained :: Half-strained (a.) Half-bred; imperfect.
Unmoralized :: Unmoralized (a.) Not restrained or tutored by morality.
Limbus :: Limbus (n.) Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo..
Bond :: Bond (n.) The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint..
Gavot :: Gavot (n.) A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over..
Spontaneity :: Spontaneity (n.) The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force..
Fetter :: Fetter (n.) Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
Intention :: Intention (n.) The state of being strained. See Intension.
Restrainment :: Restrainment (n.) The act of restraining.
Efforce :: Efforce (v. t.) To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.
Constrainable :: Constrainable (a.) Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint..
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..
Disport :: Disport (v. i.) To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self.
Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development..
Abandoned :: Abandoned (a.) Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain..
Curb :: Curb (v. t.) To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check..
Astrict :: Astrict (v. t.) To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to limit.
Curb :: Curb (v. t.) To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth..
Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.
Strainable :: Strainable (a.) Capable of being strained.
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