noun
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a keeping in check; a curbing; restraint; a curbing.
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a vexing or being vexed; vexation.
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a punishing or being punished; punishment.
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the act of defeating; a defeat.
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pain, distress or suffering.
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the limit or boundary of something.
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something owed by one person or another; debt; loan.
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a severe rebuke; reprimand; blame.
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an arresting or being arrested.
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the Supreme Being; the God.
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that part of a tool, weapon etc. which is to be held while using it; the handle.
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a treating of a disease.
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an intense dislike; aversion; repugnance.
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a fault in an argument by which the arguer is defeated.
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(dance.) a kind of action of the hand used in expressing the action of restraining.