Word Meanings - CONSTRAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.

• BONDSERVICE
  The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.
• CHAINPUMP
  A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water
• Bondslave
  A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.
• Confineless
  Without limitation or end; boundless.
• CHAINSTITCH
  A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads forms a chain on the under side of the work; the loop stitch, as distinguished from the lock stitch. See Stitch.
• Confinement
  Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
• Bondstone
  A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.
• Constringed
  of Constringe
• Bondswoman
  See Bondwoman.
• Constringe
  To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.
• Constringent
  Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing.

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