n. [ Pref. arch- + traitor. ] A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Mil.) A train of artillery for siege operations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Constrained p. pr. & vb. n. Constraining. ] [ OF. constraindre, F. contrainde, L. constringere; con- + stringere to draw tight. See Strain, and. cf. Constrict, Constringe. ] 1. To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe. [ 1913 Webster ]

He binds in chains
The drowsy prophet, and his limbs constrains. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

When winter frosts constrain the fields with cold. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring into a narrow compass; to compress. [ 1913 Webster ]

How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress. [ 1913 Webster ]

My sire in caves constrains the winds. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige. [ 1913 Webster ]

The love of Christ constraineth us. 2. Cor. v. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was constrained to appeal unto Cæsar. Acts xxviii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To violate; to ravish. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice.

Syn. -- To compel; force; drive; impel; urge; press. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. constraignable, F. contraignable. ] Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who constrains. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. constrainte, F. constrainte. ] The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not by constraint, but by my choice, I came. Dryden.

Syn. -- Compulsion; violence; necessity; urgency. -- Constraint, Compulsion. Constraint implies strong binding force; as, the constraint of necessity; the constraint of fear. Compulsion implies the exertion of some urgent impelling force; as, driven by compulsion. The former prevents us from acting agreeably to our wishes; the latter forces us to act contrary to our will. Compulsion is always produced by some active agent; a constraint may be laid upon us by the forms of civil society, or by other outward circumstances. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Constraining; compulsory. [ R. ] “Any constraintive vow.” R. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Contraindicated p. pr. & vb. n. Contraindicating ] (Med.) To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require; especially, to indicate that a particular method of treatment should not be used; as, penicilin is contraindicated in patients who have shown hypersensitivity. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (med.) An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open. [ Eng. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. & t. To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. [ Eng. ] London Graphic. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Distrained p. pr. & vb. n. Distraining. ] [ OE. destreinen to force, OF. destreindre to press, oppress, force, fr. L. distringere, districtum, to draw asunder, hinder, molest, LL., to punish severely; di- = stringere to draw tight, press together. See Strain, and cf. Distress, District, Distraint. ] 1. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. [ Obs. ] “Distrained with chains.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rend; to tear. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither guile nor force might it [ a net ] distrain. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) (a) To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement. (b) To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To levy a distress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon whom I can distrain for debt. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Distrainor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. destrainte distress, force. ] (Law) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ F. See Distract. ] Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + OF. treiller to grate, lattice, F. treille vine, arbor. See Trellis. ] To interweave; to intertwine. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Entanglement; fold. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ F. entrailles, LL. intralia, intranea, fr. interaneum, pl. interanea, intestine, interaneus inward, interior, fr. inter between, among, within. See Internal. ] 1. The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station. [ Recent, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + train. ] To put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment. [ Recent, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. entrainer. ] To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
Syn. -- gearing, gears, power train, train. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Half-bred; imperfect. [ R. ] “A half-strained villain.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a trail for horses. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as housebroken.
Syn. -- housebroken, house-trained. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as housebroken.
Syn. -- housebroken, housetrained. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A railroad train that carries mail. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To train amiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Mitrailleur. ] Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. (Mil.) One who serves a mitrailleuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mitralleuse. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., fr. mitrailler to fire grapeshot, fr. mitraille old iron, grapeshot, dim. of OF. mite a mite. ] (Mil.) A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly. [ obsolescent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To stretch or strain too much; as, to overstrain one's nerves. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Overstrained p. pr. & vb. n. Overstraining. ] To strain one's self to excess. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Too straitly or strictly. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Penetralia. [ Obs. ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., originally p. p. of portraire to portray. See Portray. ] 1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life. [ 1913 Webster ]

In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature. Sir J. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to include a photographic likeness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words. [ 1913 Webster ]

Portrait bust, or
Portrait statue, a bust or statue representing the actual features or person of an individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or statue. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To portray; to draw. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A portrait painter. [ R. ] Hamerton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. portraiture. ] 1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. [ 1913 Webster ]

For, by the image of my cause, I see
The portraiture of his. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The art or practice of making portraits. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [ R. ] Shaftesbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. quatre four, L. quattuor, quatuor. See Four. ] (Pros.) A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]