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noun

Rein n.

1.

The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse. "This knight laid hold upon his reyne."

2.

Hence, an instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing; government; restraint. "Let their eyes rove without rein."

To give rein, To give the rein to, to give license to; to leave withouut restrain.

To take the reins, to take the guidance or government; to assume control.

verb

Rein v. t. (past & past part. reined; pres. part. reining)

1.

To govern or direct with the reins; as, to rein a horse one way or another. "He mounts and reins his horse."

2.

To restrain; to control; to check. "Being once chafed, he can not Be reined again to temperance."

To rein in or To rein up,

(a)

to check the speed of, or cause to stop, by drawing the reins. Hence,

(a)

to cause (a person) to slow down or cease some activity; to rein in is used commonly of superiors in a chain of command, ordering a subordinate to moderate or cease some activity deemed excessive.

Rein v. i. To be guided by reins. (R.)

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"Rein" Quotes from Famous Books

... force as he gave it rein. He hurled himself down on the ground again and tore at the grasses with his thin black hands. "Oh, ah want, ah want, ah want tuh heah mah Hannah laff ...

— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan

... mother's looks, But, when they list, their conquering father's heart. This lovely boy, the youngest of the three, Not long ago bestrid a Scythian steed, Trotting the ring, and tilting at a glove, Which when he tainted [37] with his slender rod, He rein'd him straight, and made him so curvet As I cried out for fear he should ...

— Tamburlaine the Great, Part II. • Christopher Marlowe

... her own heart; wisely she never gave rein to self-analysis; she dared not. And so she drifted on, as in some sunny dream of ...

— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath

... more, the waking dove had cooed, The silver daughter of the silver sea With the fond gyves of clinging hands had wooed Her wanton from the chase, and Dryope Had thrust aside the branches of her oak To see the lusty gold-haired lad rein in ...

— Poems • Oscar Wilde

... London—the attitude of the Father continued to be one of extreme solicitude, deepening by degrees into disappointment and disenchantment. He abated no jot or tittle of his demands upon human frailty. He kept the spiritual cord drawn tight; the Biblical bearing-rein was incessantly busy, jerking into position the head of the dejected neophyte. That young soul, removed from the Father's personal inspection, began to blossom forth crudely and irregularly enough, into new provinces ...

— Father and Son • Edmund Gosse

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