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rs of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.

A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle.

A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.

Unbridled license; unruliness. [Obs.] Cockeram.

A blinder on a horse's bridle.

reasons strong and forcible. Shak. That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin. Hooker. He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented. Lowth (Transl. )

Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem. The gemmy bridle glittered free. Tennyson.

A bridle iron.

That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.

A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler. [Obs.] Holinshed.

A part of a bridle, the slavering bit. [Written also mastigador.]

That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.

The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.

The nose band of a horse's bridle.

That part of the headstall of a bridle which passes over a horse's nose.

r of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face. Air port, Bridle port, etc. See under Air, Bridle, etc. -- Port bar (Naut.), a bar to secure the ports of a ship in a gale. -- Port lid (Naut.), a lid or hanging for closing the portholes of a vessel. -- Steam port, and Exhaust port (Ste…

To move by leaps, or by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence. Their bridles they would champ, And trampling the fine element would fiercely ramp. Spenser.

ome random truths he can impart. Wordsworth. So sharp a spur to the lazy, and so strong a bridle to the random. H. Spencer. Random courses (Masonry), courses of unequal thickness. -- Random shot, a shot not directed or aimed toward any particular object, or a shot with the muzzle of the gun much elevated. -- Random w…

The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse. This knight laid hold upon his reyne. Chaucer.

A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.