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Word Meanings - ASHORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground ; -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. Here shall I die ashore. Shak. I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak.

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  • STRAINABLE
    1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
  • STRAINING
    from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
  • STRAINED
    1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
  • STRAINT
    Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser.
  • STRAIN
    1. Race; stock; generation; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring.
  • AGROUND
    On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.
  • ASHORE
    On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground ; -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. Here shall I die ashore. Shak. I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak.
  • STRAINABLY
    Violently. Holinshed.
  • STRAINER
    1. One who strains. 2. 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
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • SEASHORE
    All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
  • DISTRAINER
    See DISTRAINOR
  • HALF-STRAINED
    Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
  • CONSTRAINTIVE
    Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
  • RESTRAINEDLY
    With restraint. Hammond.
  • SUPERSTRAIN
    To overstrain. Bacon.
  • UNSTRAINED
    1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
  • CONSTRAINED
    Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
  • UNRESTRAINT
    Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
  • RESTRAIN
    restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down;
  • RESTRAINMENT
    The act of restraining.
  • CONSTRAINT
    The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden. Syn. -- Compulsion;
  • CONSTRAINABLE
    Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker.
  • DISTRAINOR
    One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.
  • UNCONSTRAINT
    Freedom from constraint; ease. Felton.

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