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Tine :: Tine (n.) Trouble; distress; teen.

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink..

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement..

Needful :: Needful (a.) Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing.

Blackmail :: Blackmail (v. t.) To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud..

Gripe :: Gripe (v. t.) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances..

Pain :: Pain (n.) Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.

Struggle :: Struggle (n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

Labor :: Labor (n.) Any pang or distress.

Struggle :: Struggle (v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.

#NAME? :: -ess () A suffix used to form feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess, songstress..

Strut :: Strut (n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie..

Distraint :: Distraint (n.) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.

Yearn :: Yearn (v. i.) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.

Seamstress :: Seamstress (n.) A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.

Distressing :: Distressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distres.

Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..

Distress :: Distress (n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.

Strait-handed :: Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances..

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