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Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden.

to unfurl it. -- To heave taut (Naut.), to turn a capstan, etc., till the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight. -- To heave the lead (Naut.), to take soundings with lead and line. -- To heave the log. (Naut.) See Log. -- To heave up anchor (Naut.), to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.…

eather. -- To ease the helm, to let the tiller come more amidships, so as to lessen the strain on the rudder. -- To feel the helm, to obey it. -- To right the helm, to put it amidships. -- To shift the helm, to bear the tiller over to the corresponding position on the opposite side of the vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.…

Full of spirit or natural fire; haughty; courageous; impetuous; not brooking restraint or opposition.

hysician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C. Hippocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

A woman's skirt so scant at the bottom as to restrain freedom of movement after the fashion of a hobble. -- Hob"ble-skirt`ed, a.

A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.

l tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] -- Ho"bo*ism (#), n.

To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.

Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See Hog, v. i.

ithin certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain. The loops held one curtain to another. Ex. xxxvi. 12. Thy right hand shall hold me. Ps. cxxxix. 10. They all hold swords, being expert in war. Cant. iii. In vain he seeks, that having can no…

Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond.

e; homely fare; homely manners. Now Strephon daily entertains His Chloe in the homeliest strains. Pope.

A professional rider and trainer of race horses.

The act or art of riding, and of training and managing horses; manege.

f the seasons, or of the hours of the day. Lo! where the rosy-blosomed Hours, Fair Venus' train, appear. Gray.

A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog. Shak.

. Answering his great idea," -to its present use, when this person "has an idea that the train has started," and the other "had no idea that the dinner would be so bad!" Trench.

To manacle; to fetter; hence; to confine; to restrain from free action. Although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled. Milton.

; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter. So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Shak.