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That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint. "Speak without control." Dryden.

Capability of being controlled; controllableness.

Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.

Capability of being controlled.

One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs. The great controller of our fate Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate. Dryden.

The office of a controller.

The power or act of controlling; the state of being rstrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence. You may do it without controlment. Shak.

See Cloche.

A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.

Not controllable; uncontrollable. -- In`con*trol"la*bly, adv. South.

Control of one's self; restraint exercised over one's self; self-command.

Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.

Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events.

Reflexively : 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.

Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.

Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.

powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.

f the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.