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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rein  \Rein\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Reined}  (r?nd);  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Reining}.] 
  1.  To  govern  or  direct  with  the  reins;  as  to  rein  a  horse 
  one  way  or  another. 
 
  He  mounts  and  reins  his  horse.  --Chapman. 
 
  2.  To  restrain;  to  control;  to  check. 
 
  Being  once  chafed,  he  can  not  Be  reined  again  to 
  temperance.  --Shak. 
 
  {To  rein  in}  or  {rein  up},  to  check  the  speed  of  or  cause  to 
  stop,  by  drawing  the  reins. 




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