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An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail. Note: If the embargo is laid on an enemy's ships, it is called a hostile embargo; if on

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An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail. Note: If the embargo is laid on an enemy's ships, it is called a hostile embargo; if on the ships belonging to citizens of the embargoing state, it is called a civil embargo. (more info) restrain; pref. em- + Sp. barra bar, akin to F. barre bar.

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  • CHECKWORK
    Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
  • DISMISSIVE
    Giving dismission.
  • RELEASE
    To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • DISMISSAL
    Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
  • ALLOWEDLY
    By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
  • ALLOW
    allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
  • INTERDICT
    To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual. An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same. Ayliffe. (more info)
  • CHECKREIN
    1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
  • ALLOWER
    1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
  • INDULGEMENT
    Indulgence. Wood.
  • DISMISS
    1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
  • ARRESTIVE
    Tending to arrest. McCosh.
  • INHIBITION
    A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes,
  • DETAINMENT
    Detention. Blackstone.
  • LOOSE
    laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
  • RESTRAINEDLY
    With restraint. Hammond.
  • CHECKLATON
    1. Ciclatoun. 2. Gilded leather. Spenser.
  • INDULGENCE
    Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of
  • ARRESTEE
    The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • SALLOWISH
    Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
  • MALLOWWORT
    Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
  • SWALLOWFISH
    The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
  • TALLOW-FACED
    Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
  • TALLOWY
    Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
  • UNHALLOWED
    Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked. In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence . . . is either necessary or admissible. E. D. Griffin.

 

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