rein : Idioms & Phrases

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alaska rein orchid

  • noun similar to coastal rein orchid but with smaller flowers; Alaska to Baja California and east to the Dakotas and Colorado
    Habenaria unalascensis.
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bearing rein

  • noun a rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position
    checkrein.
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Bear"ing rein`
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  1. A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.
Webster 1913

bog rein orchid

  • noun orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America
    Habenaria dilatata; bog candles.
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Bridle rein

  • a rein attached to the bit.
Webster 1913

coastal rein orchid

  • noun stout orchid of central California to northern Washington having racemes of white fragrant bilaterally symmetrical flowers
    Habenaria greenei.
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draw rein

  • verb control and direct with or as if by reins
    draw rein; harness; rein.
    • rein a horse
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free rein

  • noun the removal of constraints
    play.
    • he gave free rein to his impulses
    • they gave full play to the artist's talent
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Gag rein

  • (Harness), a rein for drawing the bit upward in the horse's mouth.
Webster 1913

leading rein

  • noun rein to direct the horse's head left or right
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rein in

  • verb stop or slow up one's horse or oneself by or as if by pulling the reins
    rein.
    • They reined in in front of the post office
  • verb control and direct with or as if by reins
    draw rein; harness; rein.
    • rein a horse
  • verb stop or check by or as if by a pull at the reins
    rein.
    • He reined in his horses in front of the post office
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rein orchid

  • noun any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip
    rein orchid.
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rein orchis

  • noun any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip
    rein orchid.
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round-leaved rein orchid

  • noun orchid having a raceme of large greenish-white flowers on a single flower stalk growing between two elliptic or round basal leaves lying on the ground; from northern Oregon and Montana across Canada to the eastern United States
    Habenaria orbiculata.
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To give rein

  • . See under Rein, n.
Webster 1913

To give rein, To give the rein to

  • to give license to; to leave withouut restrain.
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To rein in ∨ rein up

  • to check the speed of, or cause to stop, by drawing the reins.
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To take the reins

  • to take the guidance or government; to assume control.
Webster 1913