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A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

To secure by 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.

se; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores contain bring forth. Milton.

Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.

A container.

One who, or that which, contains.

That which is contained; the extent; the substance. [Obs.] The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.

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

reatment 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 female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.

To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.

A more or less viscid, vellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba. [Written also capivi.]…

Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top. [Obs.] A copatain hat made on a Flemish block. Gascoigne.