Word Meanings - RESTIFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Restive.

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• RESTIVE
  Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back. Restive or resty, drawing back, instead of going forward, as some horses do. E. Philips . The people remarked with awe and wonder that the beasts which were to drag
• ARRESTIVE
  Tending to arrest. McCosh.