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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.

Race; stock; generation; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring. Darwin.

Capable of being strained.

Violently. Holinshed.

Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.

One who strains.

from Strain. Straining piece (Arch.), a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.

Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. [Obs.] Spenser.

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.

Not trained. Shak.

A train going in the direction of the metropolis or the main terminus. [Eng.]

To train up; to educate. [Obs.] "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.

Same as Vestibule train, under Vestibule.