Word Meanings - ADSTRICT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See ASTRICTION (more info) -- Ad*stric"tion, n.

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• STRICT
  Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
• STRICKLE
  An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
• STRICTNESS
  Quality or state of being strict.
• STRICTURED
  Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.
• STRICTURE
  A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. Arbuthnot. (more info) 1. Strictness. A man of stricture and firm abstinence. Shak. 2. A stroke; a glance;
• STRICK
  A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers. Knight.
• STRICKEN
  1. Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer. Note: 2. Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21. Abraham was old and well stricken in age. Gen. xxiv. 1. 3. Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.
• STRICTLY
  In a strict manner; closely; precisely.
• ASTRICTION
  An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. Bell. Note: The lands were said to be astricted to the mill. (more info) 1. The act of binding; restriction; also, obligation. Milton. A
• STRICKLESS
  See STRICKLE
• STRICTION
  The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted. Line of striction , the line on a skew surface that cuts each generator in that point of it that is nearest to the succeeding generator.
• STRICKLER
  See STRICKLE
• STRICH
  An owl. Spenser.
• ASTRICT
  To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to
• BOA CONSTRICTOR
  A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction.
• ORCHESTRIC
  Orchestral.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• ANTIMAGISTRICAL
  Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates. South.
• CONSTRICTION
  1. The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression. 2. The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.
• VASOCONSTRICTOR
  Causing constriction of the blood vessels; as, the vasoconstrictor nerves, stimulation of which causes constriction of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasohypertonic. n.
• CONSTRICT
  To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or ause to shrink. Such things as constrict the fibers. Arbuthnot. Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction constrict. Todd & Bowman.
• ADSTRICT
  See ASTRICTION (more info) -- Ad*stric"tion, n.
• MESOGASTRIC
  Of or pertaining to the middle gastric lobe of the carapace of a crab. (more info) Of or pertaining to the middle region of the abdomen, or of the stomach. Of or pertaining to the mesogaster.
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• METAGASTRIC
  Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.
• HEPATOGASTRIC
  See GASTROHEPATIC
• STOMATOGASTRIC
  Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.
• UROGASTRIC
  Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.