What is to bring into a narrow compass; to compress. How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. Gay called?
constrain — To bring into a narrow compass; to compress. How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. Gay. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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