Definition of strain

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Strain (n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement..

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Goggle :: Goggle (v. i.) A strained or affected rolling of the eye.
Diffuse :: Diffuse (a.) Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer..
Song :: Song (n.) More generally, any poetical strain; a poem..
Yearn :: Yearn (v. i.) To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager..
Unpinion :: Unpinion (v. t.) To loose from pinions or manacles; to free from restraint.
Untie :: Untie (v. t.) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
Self-restraint :: Self-restraint (n.) Restraint over one's self; self-control; self-command.
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..
Straining :: Strainer (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid..
Counter Brace :: Counter brace () A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive..
Bind :: Bind (v. i.) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction..
Retch :: Retch (v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting..
Monologue :: Monologue (n.) A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue..
Distrainable :: Distrainable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained..
Diatribe :: Diatribe (n.) A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic..
Tammy :: Tammy (n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc..
Intention :: Intention (n.) The state of being strained. See Intension.
Broad :: Broad (superl.) Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive..
Stay :: Stay (n.) Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
Unrestraint :: Unrestraint (n.) Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
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