noun
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a restraining or being restrained; restraint; restriction.
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a rule ordinance or law by which something is regulated; regulation.
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an order; a command.
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an assigning or entrusting with or being assigned, entrusted with.
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an established order, manner or practice.
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a religious observance, as fasting, meditation, etc. to propitiate a deity.
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that which is decided; decision.
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(dial.) worshipping or propitiation of a daemon or heathen god.
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a vow by a woman of not wearing green bangles, green sari (sīre, a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder), till the marriage of her first-born son.
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any of several spots on the body of a woman by touching of which sexual desire is roused in her.