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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.

To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or ause to shrink. Such things as constrict the fibers. Arbuthnot. Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction constrict. Todd & Bowman.

Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.

The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.

Serving or tending to bind or constrict.

That which constricts, draws together, or contracts.

To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink. [R.] Strong liquors . . . intoxicate, constringe, harden the fibers, and coagulate the fluids. Arbuthnot.

Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing. Thomson.

To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice.

One who, or that which, constructs or frames.

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.

One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.

Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. The constructive fingers of Watts. Emerson.

In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.