ASTRICTION

Definition: ASTRICTION

ASTRICTION

Noun

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

2. Astringency.

3. Constipation.

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

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Astriction \As*tric"tion\, noun. [Latin expression astrictio.]. (Websters 1913)

Junction

Noun: junction; joining; Verb: joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation; annexion, annexation, annexment; astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation; accouplement; marriage; (wedlock,); infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation; meeting, reunion; assemblage.

Crosswords: ASTRICTION

Italian

restrizione (bar, qualification, reservation, restraint, restriction, stint), costrizione (compulsion, constraint, duress, enforcement, force). (various references)

Pig Latin

astrictionay

Portuguese

restrição (barrier, bridle, check, cramp, limitation, qualification, reservation, reserve, restriction, stint). (various references)

Spanish

astricción. (various references)

Ukrainian

стягування (constriction), запор (constipation, fast, obstruction, oppilation). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự r� ng buộc sự l� m cho táo bón sự hạn chế, sự buộc chặt sự thắt buộc. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: citations, striation, tractions.

-2 letters: antiriot, aoristic, artistic, carotins, citation, citators, contrast, introits, oscitant, ostinati, ricottas, stiction, strontia, strontic, tactions, traction.

-3 letters: actions, aroints, astrict, atonics, attorns, cantors, carotin, cartons, cations, cistron, citator, citrins, citrons, contras, cortins, cottars, cratons, incisor, intorts, introit, ironist, narcist, noritic, octants, rations, rattons, ricotta, satiric, soritic, station, taction, tantric.

+1 letter: creationist, distraction, nonartistic, recitations, romanticist, rustication, urtications.

+2 letters: anorthositic, anticipators, antistrophic, creationists, crepitations, distractions, extrications, incrustation, interactions, metrications, obstetrician, ratiocinates, romanticists, rustications, scintillator, vaticinators.

+3 letters: acetonitriles, actinometries, antifrictions, antiromantics, antiscorbutic, articulations, contrarieties, exercitations, incrustations, indoctrinates, instructional, intersocietal, obstetricians, pantisocratic, petrifactions, pontificators, practitioners, protactiniums, ratifications, ratiocinators, rationalistic, reactivations, recreationist, resuscitation, reticulations, scintillators, theoreticians, transcription, trifurcations, triplications, voluntaristic.