Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Half-bred; imperfect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Half-bred; imperfect.
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Examples
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All the dogs were fighters except the big, soft-throated Mackenzie hounds, with the slow strength of oxen in their movements, and the quarter-strained and half-strained mongrels from the south; and upon these unfortunates the others preyed.
The Honor of the Big Snows James Oliver Curwood 1903
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With a half-strained movement she advanced a chilly hand to meet the girl's warm grasp.
Flaming June George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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-- Damn these half-strained shopkeepers, got between gentlemen and city wives; how naturally they quake, and run away from their own fathers! twenty souls a penny were a dear bargain of them.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 John Dryden 1665
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