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Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature. Dryden.

The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted. Line of striction (Geom.), the line on a skew surface that cuts each generator in that point of it that is nearest to the succeeding generator.

In a strict manner; closely; precisely.

Quality or state of being strict.

Strictness. [Obs.] A man of stricture and firm abstinence. Shak.

Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.

See Astrict, and Astriction.

See Astrictory.

To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot.

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

Binding; astringent. -- n.

Astrictive. [R.]

A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

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.

Rigorous; stringent; harsh. [Obs.] Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.

Sudden display; flash; glitter. [R.] A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.