Word Meanings - BRIDLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle. Milton.

MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell.
BRIDLE IRON
A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.
MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
BRIDLER
One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle. Milton.
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
HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
UNBRIDLE
To free from the bridle; to set loose.
UNBRIDLED
Loosed from the bridle, or as from the bridle; hence, unrestrained; licentious; violent; as, unbridled passions. "Unbridled boldness." B. Jonson. Lands deluged by unbridled floods. Wordsworth. -- Un*bri"dled*ness, n. Abp. Leighton.