Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To compress; bind together; constrict.
- Figuratively, to oblige; constrain; bind by obligation.
- To become solid; congeal.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive, obsolete To constrict, to compress
- v. intransitive, obsolete To become constricted or compressed
- v. To bind by moral or legal obligation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress.
- v. To bind by moral or legal obligation.
WordNet 3.0
- v. become constricted or compressed
- v. constrict or bind or draw together
Examples
“Oxford, of that dread sacrament by which Catiline bound the soul of his fellow-conspirators, in order that both by the daring of the deed he might have proof of their sincerity, and by the horror thereof astringe their souls by adamantine fetters, and”
“-- The root of this plant is used medicinally and the resin that exudes from the tree is employed to astringe the gums.”
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
“Malt, and extracts its Virtue; whereas the hard Waters astringe and bind the Parts of the Malt, so that its Virtue is not freely communicated to the”
“n. - morbid fear of thunder and lightning. astringe v. - bind; brace; restrict; constipate. v. - guide (spaceship, etc.); v.i. navigate in space. astrogony”
“John Brimblecombe," said Frank, in a sepulchral tone, "you cannot be ignorant, as a scholar and bachelor of Oxford, of that dread sacrament by which Catiline bound the soul of his fellow-conspirators, in order that both by the daring of the deed he might have proof of their sincerity, and by the horror thereof astringe their souls by adamantine fetters, and Novem-Stygian oaths, to that wherefrom hereafter the weakness of the flesh might shrink.”
“Primary action: This describes the primary mode of the herb, which may dispel (move), astringe (restrain), purge (expel), or tonify (strengthen). ”
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Squeeze
constringe, squeeze, constrain, constrict, strangle, strangulate, pinch, astringe, compress, hidebind, restringe, confine and 4 more...
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To Link, Connect, Join, Attach or Bind
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