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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.]

To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. [Eng.] London Graphic.

To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. [Obs.] "Distrained with chains." Chaucer.

Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained. Blackstone.

Same as Distrainor.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.

The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress. Abbott.

To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.

Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.

Half-bred; imperfect. [R.] "A half-strained villain." Dryden.

To train amiss.

To strain one's self to excess. Dryden.

A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately. Dryden.

A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.

One who distrains again.

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.