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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,932 words match “RAIN”

TRAINY a.
Belonging to train oil. [Obs.] Gay.
UNCONSTRAINT n.
Freedom from constraint; ease. Felton.
UNDERDRAIN n. 2 definitions
An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.
UNRESTRAINT n.
Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
UNSTRAIN v.
To relieve from a strain; to relax. B. Jonson.
UNSTRAINED a. 2 definitions
Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk.
UNTRAINED a. 2 definitions
Not trained. Shak.
UP-TRAIN n. 2 definitions
A train going in the direction of the metropolis or the main terminus. [Eng.]
UPTRAIN v.
To train up; to educate. [Obs.] "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
VESTIBULED TRAIN n.
Same as Vestibule train, under Vestibule.
WATER BRAIN n.
A disease of sheep; gid.
WATER DRAIN n.
A drain or channel for draining off water.
WATER DRAINAGE n.
The draining off of water.
WATER MURRAIN n.
A kind of murrain affecting cattle. Crabb.
WELLDRAIN v.
To drain, as land; by means of wells, or pits, which receive the water, and from which it is discharged by machinery.
WRAIN-BOLT n.
Same as Wringbolt.
ABANDON v. 2 definitions
: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self- control ; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly ; -- often in a bad sense. He abandoned himself . . . to his favorite vice. Macaulay.
ABANDONED a.
Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.
ABANDONEDLY adv.
Unrestrainedly.
ABATE v.
To reduce in estimation; to deprive. [Obs.] She hath abated me of half my train. Shak.
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