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n. The act of binding; restriction; obligation.

n. A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance.

n. constipation

n. astringency

n. An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. (The lands were said to be astricted to the mill.)

n. The act of binding; restriction; also, obligation.

n.

n. A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance on the animal economy.

n. Constipation.

n. Astringency.

n. An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll.

n. Restriction; obligation.

n. In medicine: The act of binding close or compressing with ligatures. A contraction of parts by applications; the stopping of hemorrhages. Constipation.

n. In Scots law, the obligation imposed by the servitude of thirlage, by which certain lands are restricted to the use of a particular mill for the grinding of grain. See thirlage. Formerly also adstriction.

"Besides all this, it comforteth the stomacke by the astriction it hath from other minerals, especially iron, so that (without doubt) of a thousand, who shall use it discreetly and with good advice (their bodies first being well and orderly prepared by some learned and skilfull"

restriction    constipation    astringency