Word Meanings - UPSEEK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.
Related words: (words related to UPSEEK)
- STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - UPSEEK
To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey. - 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. - STRAINT
Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser. - SUFFUSION
A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds. (more info) 1. The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading. To those that have the jaundice, - 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. - 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 - SUFFUSE
To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes. When purple light shall next suffuse the skies. Pope. - UPWARD; UPWARDS
1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. - UPWARD
Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course. - 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; - CONSTRAINABLE
Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker. - DISTRAINOR
One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.