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A strained or affected rolling of the eye.

To regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage; as, to govern the life; to govern a horse. Govern well thy appetite. Milton.

To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

g the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb.

With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.

. [Cant] -- To freshen the hawse, to veer out a little more cable and bring the chafe and strain on another part.

ront of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.

Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden.

, to unfurl it. -- To heave taut (Naut.), to turn a capstan, etc., till the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight. -- To heave the lead (Naut.), to take soundings with lead and line. -- To heave the log. (Naut.) See Log. -- To heave up anchor (Naut.), to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.…

weather. -- To ease the helm, to let the tiller come more amidships, so as to lessen the strain on the rudder. -- To feel the helm, to obey it. -- To right the helm, to put it amidships. -- To shift the helm, to bear the tiller over to the corresponding position on the opposite side of the vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.…

Full of spirit or natural fire; haughty; courageous; impetuous; not brooking restraint or opposition.

physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C. Hippocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

A woman's skirt so scant at the bottom as to restrain freedom of movement after the fashion of a hobble. -- Hob"ble-skirt`ed, a.

To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.

Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See Hog, v. i.

within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain. The loops held one curtain to another. Ex. xxxvi. 12. Thy right hand shall hold me. Ps. cxxxix. 10. They all hold swords, being expert in war. Cant. iii. In vain he seeks, that having can n…

Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond.

se; homely fare; homely manners. Now Strephon daily entertains His Chloe in the homeliest strains. Pope.

To manacle; to fetter; hence; to confine; to restrain from free action. Although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled. Milton.

s; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter. So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Shak.