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Definition of Reins
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Reins
The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins. The inward impulses; the affections and passions; -- so called because formerly supposed to have their seat in the part of the body where the kidneys are. Related Definitions:
Also, And, Are, Because, Body, Called, Formerly, Have, In, Inward, Kidneys, Of, Part, Region, Seat, So, Supposed, The, Their, To, Where |
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. Benjamin Franklin Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. George Eliot Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit? Katie Price When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower. Lytton Strachey |
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Reins Translations
reins in Latin is frenum |
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