Word Meanings - UNTRAMMELED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not hampered or impeded; free.
Related words: (words related to UNTRAMMELED)
- IMPEDE
To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops. Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will. Logfellow. - IMPEDIMENT
That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect. Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. Shak. Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance. Syn. -- Hindrance; obstruction; - IMPEDITE
Hindered; obstructed. Jer. Taylor. - IMPEDIMENTAL
Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive. Things so impediental to success. G. H. Lewes. - IMPEDITIVE
Causing hindrance; impeding. "Cumbersome, and impeditive of motion." Bp. Hall. - HAMPER
A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels. - IMPEDIMENTA
Things which impede or hinder progress; incumbrances; baggage; specif. , - IMPEDANCE
The apparent resistance in an electric circuit to the flow of an alternating current, analogous to the actual electrical resistance to a direct current, being the ratio of electromotive force to the current. It is equal to R2 + X2, where R = ohmic - IMPEDIBLE
Capable of being impeded or hindered. Jer. Taylor. - IMPEDITION
A hindering; a hindrance. Baxier. - CHAMPERTOR
One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain. - CHAMPER
One who champs, or bites. - TOP-HAMPER
All the ships of the fleet . . . were so encumbered with tophamper, so overweighted in proportion to their draught of water, that they could bear but little canvas, even with smooth seas and light and favorable winds. Motley. - CHAMPERTY
The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; - MAIN-HAMPER
A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.