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To train amiss.

To strain one's self to excess. Dryden.

One who distrains again.

l force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb. Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose! Shak.

Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.

With restraint. Hammond.

One who, or that which, restrains.

The act of restraining.

The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental. No man was altogether above the restrains of law, and no man altogether below its protection. Macaulay.

Restrained by one's self or itself; restrained by one's own power or will.

Restraint over one's self; self-control; self-command.

To overstrain. Bacon.

Freedom from constraint; ease. Felton.

Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.

To relieve from a strain; to relax. B. Jonson.

Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk.

ly : To give (one's self) up without attempt at self- control ; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly ; -- often in a bad sense. He abandoned himself . . . to his favorite vice. Macaulay.

Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.

Unrestrainedly.

Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining. Farrar.