Word Meanings - BRIDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the timbler, sear, etc. A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle. A mooring hawser. Bowline bridle. See

Additional info about word: BRIDLE

The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the timbler, sear, etc. A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle. A mooring hawser. Bowline bridle. See under Bowline. -- Branches of a bridle. See under Branch. -- Bridle cable , a cable which is bent to a bridle. See 4, above. -- Bridle hand, the hand which holds the bridle in riding; the left hand. -- Bridle path, Bridle way, a path or way for saddle horses and pack horses, as distinguished from a road for vehicles. -- Bridle port , a porthole or opening in the bow through which hawsers, mooring or bridle cables, etc., are passed. -- Bridle rein, a rein attached to the bit. -- Bridle road. Same as Bridle path. Lowell. A road in a pleasure park reserved for horseback exercise. -- Bridle track, a bridle path. -- Scolding bridle. See Branks, 2. Syn. -- A check; restrain. (more info) 1. The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages. 2. A restraint; a curb; a check. I. Watts.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRIDLE)

• Check Curb
• restrain
• stop
• stay
• repress
• hinder
• impede
• inhibit
• cohibit
• bridle
• control
• obstruct
• Rein
• Curb
• moderate
• govern
• check
• hold

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BRIDLE)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Neglect
• abandon
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to BRIDLE)

• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• INDULGEMENT
  Indulgence. Wood.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• INHIBITION
  A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes,
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• OBSTRUCTIVE
  Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. -- Ob*struct"ive*ly, adv.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• CHECKLATON
  1. Ciclatoun. 2. Gilded leather. Spenser.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• MALLOWWORT
  Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• TALLOW-FACED
  Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
• TALLOWY
  Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.