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verb

Curb v. t. (past & past part. curbed; pres. part. curbing)

To bend or curve. (Obs.) "Crooked and curbed lines."

To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check. "Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed." "Where pinching want must curb thy warm desires."

To furnish with a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.

Curb v. i. To bend; to crouch; to cringe. (Obs.) "Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Curbing" Quotes from Famous Books

... enterprize man hath, For waking love or curbing wrath, 'Tis the first step that makes ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... would finally rest on the principle that the end sanctifies the means. However, I am not in favour of a compromise on a basis of that sort. Religion may be an excellent means of curbing and controlling the perverse, dull, and malicious creatures of the biped race; in the eyes of the friend of truth every fraus, be it ever so pia, must be rejected. It would be an odd way to promote virtue through the medium of lies and deception. The flag to which I have sworn ...

— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer

... artifice, stamped with the trademark of man. Indignity and defeat were symbolized by its overrunning; it was an arrogant defiance, an outrageous challenge offered to every man happening by. But the grass was not satisfied with this irreverence: it was already making demands on curbing and gutter. ...

— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore

... women, abandoned to the lowest depths of degradation and vulgarity, rushed into the apartment, assailing her ears with the most obscene and loathsome epithets the language could afford. The queen stood in the recess of a window, with queenly pride curbing her mortal apprehension. A few friends had gathered around her, and placed a table before her as a partial protection. Her daughter, an exceedingly beautiful girl of fourteen years of age, with her light brown hair floating in ringlets over her fair brow and ...

— Maria Antoinette - Makers of History • John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

... open. Nothing was secreted in them, and eager looks were changed to those of disappointment. Morgan took up the pitcher, drank, and passed to Jeffreys, who handed it to Nick; and so it went round, each drinking a little, curbing his desires in order that some of the precious liquid might remain for the wakeful watches of the night. Darkness came, but it brought little or no rest. Swarms of mosquitoes came in and bit their hapless victims mercilessly as they tossed and turned on the bare earthen floor. The nights of captivity ...

— Sea-Dogs All! - A Tale of Forest and Sea • Tom Bevan

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