restrain, rest raine, rest rayne, restreigne, restreine

t. [O. Fr. restraindre (rr. restreindre ), from Lat. restringo =to draw back tightly, to bind back: re -back, and stringo =to draw tight; Sp. & Port. restringir; Ital. restrig nere, restring ere, ristrignere, ristringere.] [STRINGENT.] *1. To strain, to draw tight. 2. To withhold; to hold back; to keep in or back; to hold or keep back from action, advancement, or proceeding, by physical or moral force, or by interposing obstacles. "His troops he succeeded in restraining."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xvi. 3. To keep under; to repre , to subdue, to curb. "The remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain."- Psalm xxvi. 10. 4. To abridge, to limit, to restrict; to hinder from unlimited enjoyment. "Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain'd." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, ii. 5. 5. To limit, to confine, to restrict. "A moral universality also is to be restrained by a part of the predicate." -Watts: Logic. *6. To withhold, to forbear. ( Job xv. 4.) *7. To forbid, to prohibit.