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Word Meanings - HALF-STRAINED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.

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  • STRAINABLE
    1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
  • 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.
  • IMPERFECT
    1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential
  • VILLAINOUS
    1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine
  • IMPERFECTIBLE
    Incapable of being mad perfect.
  • STRAINED
    1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
  • VILLAINY
    1. The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer. "Lucre of vilanye." Chaucer. The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy. Shak. 2. Abusive, reproachful
  • STRAINT
    Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser.
  • IMPERFECTIBILITY
    The state or quality of being imperfectible.
  • STRAIN
    1. Race; stock; generation; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring.
  • VILLAIN
    One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant. If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant, and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must
  • STRAINABLY
    Violently. Holinshed.
  • IMPERFECTNESS
    The state of being imperfect.
  • STRAINER
    1. One who strains. 2. That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an
  • IMPERFECTION
    The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish. Sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. Shak. Syn. -- Defect; deficiency; incompleteness; fault; failing; weakness;
  • OUTVILLAIN
    To exceed in villainy.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • DISTRAINER
    See DISTRAINOR
  • HALF-STRAINED
    Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
  • CONSTRAINTIVE
    Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
  • RESTRAINEDLY
    With restraint. Hammond.
  • SUPERSTRAIN
    To overstrain. Bacon.
  • 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.
  • CONSTRAINED
    Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
  • UNRESTRAINT
    Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
  • RESTRAIN
    restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down;
  • RESTRAINMENT
    The act of restraining.
  • CONSTRAINT
    The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden. Syn. -- Compulsion;

 

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