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;