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Fiery :: Fiery (a.) Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.

Flourish :: Flourish (n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare..

Unmew :: Unmew (v. t.) To release from confinement or restraint.

Confinement :: Confinement (n.) Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in..

Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained..

Lawless :: Lawless (a.) Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or of society; as, lawless men or behavior..

Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate..

Close :: Close (n.) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.

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

Qualify :: Qualify (v. t.) To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition..

Deliverance :: Deliverance (n.) The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint..

Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like..

Recheat :: Recheat (n.) A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.

Hog :: Hog (v. i.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form..

Strain :: Strain (a.) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person..

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..

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

Unlimited :: Unlimited (a.) Unconfined; not restrained; unrestricted.

Reserved :: Reserved (a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank..

Broad :: Broad (superl.) Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

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