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state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds. This is to have the same restriction with all other recreations,that it be made a divertisement. Giv. of Tonque.

Restrictive. [R.]

Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight. [Obs.] Milton.

The act of binding; restriction; also, obligation. Milton.

o holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).

A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.

llowed by the Milan decree, issued by Napoleon from Milan Dec. 17, 1807, imposing further restrictions, and declaring every ship going to or from a port of England or her colonies to be lawful prize.

Limitation; restriction. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious metals. Walsh.

To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park. [R.] Spectator.

To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness.

general government; public lands. [U.S.]in the public domain may be used by anyone wihout restriction. -- Right of eminent domain, that superior dominion of the sovereign power over all the property within the state, including that previously granted by itself, which authorizes it to appropriate any part thereof to a…

The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.

Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free. [R.] "It is of frank gift." Spenser.

Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation. Massinger.

cure against objections or censure. They have expressed themselves with as few guards and restrictions as I. Atterbury.

The act of including, or the state of being included; limitation; restriction; as, the lines of inclusion of his policy. Sir W. Temple.

bearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect. These few restrictions, I hope, are no great stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions of despotism. Burke.

overnment by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government.

A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance. I prithee, give no limits to my tongue. Shak.