Word Meanings - STRAIT-JACKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back.

• Stronghand
  Violence; force; power.
• CLOSEFIGHTS
  Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [Obs.]
• Confiner
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• Handseling
  of Handsel
• Stronghold
  A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
• CLOSESTOOL
  A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.
• Closeness
  The state of being close.
• Confinity
  Community of limits; contiguity.
• Handselling
  of Handsel
• Strongish
  Somewhat strong.
• CLOSETONGUED
  Closemouthed; silent. "Close-tongued treason." Shak.
• Delirious
  Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies.
• Handsome
  Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons.
• Strongly
  In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
• DRESSCIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• Behindhand
  In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
• Closereefed
  Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.

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