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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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... so pleasing {1710.}. At the age of ten he was taken by his mother to Professor Franke's school at Halle; and by mistake he overheard a conversation between her and the pious professor. She described him as a lad of parts, but full of pride, and in need of the curbing rein. He was soon to find how much these words implied. If a boy has been trained by gentle ladies he is hardly well equipped, as a rule, to stand the rough horseplay of a boarding-school; and if, in ...

— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton

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— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott

... amid the dapper, swiftly moving, high-heeled boots and gaiters, I catch a glimpse of the naked human foot. Nimbly it scuffs along, the toes spread, the sides flatten, the heel protrudes; it grasps the curbing, or bends to the form of the uneven surfaces,—a thing sensuous and alive, that seems to take cognizance of whatever it touches or passes. How primitive and uncivil it looks in such company,—a real barbarian in the parlor! We are so unused to the human anatomy, to simple, unadorned nature, that ...

— Winter Sunshine • John Burroughs

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— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee

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