Word Meanings - UNSTRAINED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to UNSTRAINED)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• 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.
• FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• FORCUT
  To cut completely; to cut off. Chaucer.
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• NATURALIZE
  1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
• FORCING
  The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat. Forcing bed or pit, a plant bed having an under layer of fermenting manure, the fermentation yielding bottom
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• 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.
• FORCEFUL
  Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
• CLEAR-SEEING
  Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
• FORCEMENT
  The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster.
• NATURALNESS
  The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• ENFORCIBLE
  That may be enforced.
• REENFORCE
  To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
• DEFORCE
  To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.