noun. Restriction; obligation.

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

noun. 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.

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

noun. undefined

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

noun. Constipation.

noun. Astringency.

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

noun. The act of binding; restriction; obligation.

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

noun. constipation

noun. astringency

noun. 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.)

"From which doctrine I gather, that the Author of _Marchena_, was in an errour, who, writing of _Chocolate_, saith that it causeth Opilations, because _Cacao_ is astringent; as if that astriction were not corrected, by the intimate mixing of one part with another, by meanes of the grinding, as is said before."

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