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Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.

Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or of society; as, lawless men or behavior.

Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life. "Licentious wickedness." Shak.

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing. Strained by lifting at a weight too heavy. Locke.

mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate in description.

In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex,…

One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch. Addison.

ds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as:

To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner. "Mouthing big phrases." Hare. Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes. Tennyson.

The state of being constrained, bound, or obliged; that which constrains or obliges; obligation; bond. [R.] Milton.

One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained. Shak.

A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. Ps. cxlii. 7. The tyrant Æolus, . . . With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds, And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds. Dryden.

Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow.

ackstone. Writ of recaption (Law), a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent or service, are distrained again for the same cause.Wharton.

Not having, or not governed by, reins; hence, not checked or restrained.

division of a subject into too many unconnected parts, and also to anything which is overstrained; as, a painting may want repose. Angle of repose (Physics), the inclination of a plane at which a body placed on the plane would remain at rest, or if in motion would roll or side down with uniform velocity; the angle at…

The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.

Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. To all obliging, yet reserved to all. Walsh. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see. Dryden. -- Re*serv"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*serv"ed*ness, n.

o hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge. Though they two were committed, at least restrained of their liberty. Clarendon.