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Word Meanings - TITH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tight; nimble. Of a good stirring strain too, she goes tith. Beau. & Fl.

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  • STRAINABLE
    1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
  • TIGHTENER
    That which tightens; specifically , a tightening pulley.
  • 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.
  • TIGHT
    p. p. of Tie. Spenser.
  • STIRRING
    Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life. A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it. Southey. Syn. -- Animating; arousing;
  • STIRRAGE
    The act of stirring; stir; commotion. T. Granger.
  • 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.
  • TIGHTNESS
    The quality or condition of being tight.
  • STRAINT
    Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser.
  • TIGHTEN
    To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner. Just where I please, with tightened rein I'll urge thee round the dusty plain. Fawkes. Tightening pulley , a pulley which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten it.
  • TIGHTER
    A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer.
  • 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.
  • NIMBLE
    Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails. Pope. Note: Nimble is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, nimble-footed, nimble-pinioned,
  • TIGHTLY
    In a tight manner; closely; nearly.
  • STRAINABLY
    Violently. Holinshed.
  • STIRRER
    One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer. Shak. Stirrer up, an instigator or inciter. Atterbury.
  • 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
  • STIRRUP
    Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron. (more info) + rap a rope; akin to G. stegreif a stirrup. *164. See Sty, v. i., 1. A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather,
  • NIMBLENESS
    The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.
  • TIGHTS
    Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.
  • WINDTIGHT
    So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
  • WATER-TIGHT
    So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • DISTRAINER
    See DISTRAINOR
  • HALF-STRAINED
    Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
  • HIGHTY-TIGHTY
    Hoity-toity.
  • CONSTRAINTIVE
    Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
  • RESTRAINEDLY
    With restraint. Hammond.
  • SUPERSTRAIN
    To overstrain. Bacon.
  • GASTIGHT
    So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.
  • RAIN-TIGHT
    So tight as to exclude rain as, a rain-tight roof.
  • 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;

 

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