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Check :: Check (v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.

Keeping :: Keeping (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

Styptic :: Styptic (a.) Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.

Colation :: Colation (n.) The act or process of straining or filtering.

Coaction :: Coaction (n.) Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling..

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

Checkless :: Checkless (a.) That can not be checked or restrained.

Thermotension :: Thermotension (n.) A process of increasing the strength of wrought iron by heating it to a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in that state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which the strength is afterward to be exerted..

Straining :: Strained (imp. & p. p.) of Strai.

Easy :: Easy (v. t.) At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint.

Distrainer :: Distrainer (n.) Same as Distrainor.

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity..

Ungovernable :: Ungovernable (a.) Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions..

Siling :: Siling () a. & n. from Sile to strain.

Strain :: Strain (a.) To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship..

Sotto Voce :: Sotto voce () With a restrained voice or moderate force; in an undertone.

Constrain :: Constrain (v. t.) To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.

Self-indulgence :: Self-indulgence (n.) Indulgence of one's appetites, desires, or inclinations; -- the opposite of self-restraint, and self-denial..

Confabulation :: Confabulation (n.) Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation..

Extravagant :: Extravagant (a.) Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse..

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