1.A long narrow leather strap attached to each end of the bit of a bridle and used by a rider or driver to control a horse or other animal. Often used in the plural.
2.A means of restraint, check, or guidance.
3.A means or an instrument by which power is exercised. Often used in the plural: the reins of government.
4.A strap fastened to a bit by which a rider or driver controls an animal.
The flow within him felt so good after the control he normally exerted to rein it in.0 | 0 |
Milne Edwards has identified ten species which occur in Australian seas also, and Rein mentions, as belonging to the same category, the helmet-crab or horse-shoe crab (kabuto-gani, Limulus longispina I-Ioeven).0 | 0 |
Given free rein to improvise as he saw fit, the law student had found the employee and created his own sting.0 | 0 |
The name Rhine, which is apparently of Celtic origin, is of uncertain etymology, the most favoured derivations being either from der Rinnende (the flowing), or from Rein (the clear), the latter being now the more generally accepted.0 | 0 |
If you gave me free rein I'd have every kind of animal there was.0 | 0 |
Rubbing her eyes, she tried to rein in her scattered thoughts.0 | 0 |
I gave him free rein to do what he needs to.0 | 0 |
He treated his most respectable supporters with base ingratitude, reserved his favour for unscrupulous adventurers, and gave a free rein to the licence of his mercenaries.0 | 0 |
It might take all three sisters to rein her in, if even their hands were firm enough.0 | 0 |
" Bitting " or " mouthing," or the familiarizing of an animal to the bit in his mouth, and to answer to the rein without bending his neck, is still a necessity with the galvayning method of breaking.0 | 0 |
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