Word Meanings - RESTRINGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To confine; to contract; to stringe.

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• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• CONTRACTED
  1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted
• STRINGER
  A longitudinal sleeper. (more info) 1. One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. Be content to put your trust in honest stringers. Ascham. 2. A libertine; a wencher. Beau. & Fl.
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• CONFINE
  To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of
• CONTRACTIBLENESS
  Contractibility.
• CONFINEMENT
  1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
• CONTRACTION
  The process of shortening an operation. 3. The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease. 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word
• STRINGENCY
  The quality or state of being stringent.
• STRINGENDO
  Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.
• CONTRACTILITY
  The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening. Note: When subject to the will, as in the muscles of locomotion, such power is called voluntary contractility; when not controlled by the will, as in the muscles of
• CONTRACTIBILITY
  Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibiliy and dilatability of air. Arbuthnot.
• CONTRACTILE
  tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance.
• CONTRACT
  To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. Syn. -- To shorten; abridge; epitomize; narrow; lessen; condense; reduce; confine; incur; assume. (more info) con- + trahere to draw: cf.
• CONTRACTEDNESS
  The state of being contracted; narrowness; meannes; selfishness.
• CONTRACTURE
  A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.
• CONTRACTOR
  One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.
• CONTRACT SYSTEM
  1. The sweating system. 2. The system of employing convicts by selling their labor (to be performed inside the prison) at a fixed price per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to superintend the work.
• CONTRACT TABLET
  A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• ASTRINGENCY
  The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin.
• SUBASTRINGENT
  Somewhat astringent.
• ASTRINGE
  1. To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress. Which contraction . . . astringeth the moistuBacon. 2. To bind by moral or legal obligation. Wolsey.
• ADSTRINGENT
  See ASTRINGENT
• PERSTRINGE
  1. To touch; to graze; to glance on. 2. To criticise; to touch upon. Evelyn.
• RESTRINGENCY
  Quality or state of being restringent; astringency. Sir W. Petty.
• RESTRINGENT
  Restringing; astringent; styptic. -- n.
• ASTRINGENTLY
  In an astringent manner.
• OBSTRINGE
  To constrain; to put under obligation. Bp. Gardiner.