Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without rein; without restraint; unchecked.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not having, or not governed by, reins; hence, not checked or restrained.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not having, or not governed by,
reins . - adjective by extension Not
checked orrestrained .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For economic performance, appropriate economic programs, and, most of all, reducing reinless corruption are the key.
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And they fled, scattering — lo! with reinless speed
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Apart from this, Washington was holding the reinless tightly on his impatience.
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Apart from this, Washington was holding the reinless tightly on his impatience.
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Apart from this, Washington was holding the reinless tightly on his impatience.
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Apart from this, Washington was holding the reinless tightly on his impatience.
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Erichaetes son of Lycaon, the one when his reinless horse stumbling had flung him to the ground, the other as they met on foot.
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Gaetulian towns, a race unconquerable in war; the reinless Numidian riders and the grim Syrtis hem thee in; on this lies a thirsty tract of desert, swept by the raiders of Barca.
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The reinless steed galloping on, with rider directing its tail, was ludicrous enough to behold.
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Had he fallen asleep and reinless fancy had played him the fantastic trick, from which, cramped and dazed, he had just awakened to the old sweet reality.
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