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▪ I. reined, ppl. a.1|reɪnd|
[f. rein v. + -ed1.]
1. Furnished with, guided or restrained by, reins. Also reined-back, reined-in, reined-up.
1483Cath. Angl. 303/2 Renyd, habenatus. 1513Douglas æneis x. v. 95 With renit lyonis ȝokkit to thi chayr. 1740Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 159 He approached me with a sort of reined-in rapture. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies xix. (1863) 108 The poor, mutilated, harnessed, checked, reined-up victim of luxury. 1905W. Holman Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism II. vii. 174 At first acquaintance with the poet, I thought that later in my knowledge of him I should see some phases of the reined-back pose of Woolner's bust, but this I was unable to do. 1961New Statesman 21 July 92/1 The reined-back rhythms of this verse are especially pleasing.
2. With preceding adv., or in combs., esp. well reined, † well broken to the rein.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) C c v b, Thoughe the knyghte passe his course, yet it is not his faute, yf the horse be not wel reined. 1565–6Blundevil Horsemanship i. (1580) 3 Vegetius also saith that they [the Parthian horses] be verie well reined. 1598[see rein v.2]. 1767Lewis Statius xii. 1042 His neat Quiver, Sword, and well-rein'd Steed. 1856Stonehenge Brit. Rural Sports 395/2 The snaffle..usually called the single-reined bridle.
▪ II. † reined, ppl. a.2 Obs.—1
[f. rein, sing. of reins + -ed2.]
Having reins of a specified kind.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §78 The fyrst [property] is to be small mouthed, the seconde to be longe rayned. |