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Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. -- Brain"sick*ness, n.

In a brainsick manner.

Having an active or vigorous mind. [Colloq.]

A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.

Stupid. [Obs.] Shak.

Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement.

Giddy; rash. Milton.

bonds; to chain; to bond or con He binds in hains The droway prophet, and his limbs constrains. Dryden. When winter frosts constrain the fields with old. Dryden.

Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker.

Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.

By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. Hooker.

One who constrains.

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.

Constraining; compulsory. [R.] "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.

Something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed. Burke.

treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey.

An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.

A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open. [Eng.]

Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.