Definition of curb

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Curb (n.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness..

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Curb :: Curb (n.) A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in..
Ecballium :: Ecballium (n.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared..
Squashed :: Squash (n.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind..
Kerb :: Kerb (n.) See Curb.
Bridle :: Bridle (n.) A restraint; a curb; a check.
Kerbstone :: Kerbstone (n.) See Curbstone.
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..
Curb Roof :: Curb roof () A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof..
Curb :: Curb (v. t.) To bend or curv.
Puteal :: Puteal (n.) An inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well curb.
Check :: Check (v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint.
Curb :: Curb (v. t.) To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth..
Curbless :: Curbless (a.) Having no curb or restraint.
Bit :: Bit (v.) Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.
Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb..
Mansard Roof :: Mansard roof () A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one..
Padlock :: Padlock (n.) Fig.: A curb; a restraint.
Cucurbitive :: Cucurbitive (a.) Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain small worms.
Limit :: Limit (v. t.) A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
Curbed :: Curbed (imp. & p. p.) of Cur.
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