Word Meanings - STRAINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser.

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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.
• 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.
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• STRAINT
  Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser.
• OVEREXERTION
  Excessive exertion.
• 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.
• TENSION
  The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight. 5. A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to
• TENSIONED
  Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension. "A highly tensioned string." Tyndall.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• STRAINABLY
  Violently. Holinshed.
• 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
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• INTENSION
  The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere. This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio
• PROTENSION
  A drawing out; extension. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• PORTENSION
  The act of foreshowing; foreboding. Sir T. Browne.
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
  The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers.
• COEXTENSION
  The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.
• INEXTENSION
  Want of extension; unextended state.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• OBTENSION
  The act of obtending. Johnson.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• SUPERSTRAIN
  To overstrain. Bacon.
• COINTENSION
  The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3 : 6 and 6 : 12 are relations of cointension. Cointension . . . is chosen indicate the equality of relations in respect of the contrast between their terms. H. Spencer.
• 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.