[f. CURB sb. and v.2]

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  1.  Furnished with or having a curb.

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1675.  Lond. Gaz., No. 975/4. An old curbed Bridle. Ibid. (1695), 3048/4. Kirb’d Bridle.

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1847.  Youatt, Horse, i. 10. The severe and often cruel curbed-bit.

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  b.  Curbed roof = CURB-ROOF.

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1866.  Intell. Observ., No. 57. 178. Zinc-work on the curbed roofs.

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  2.  fig. Restrained, checked.

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1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., IV. v. 131. The Fift Harry, from curb’d License pluckes The muzzle of restraint.

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1862.  Ld. Brougham, Brit. Const., xi. 157. Stephen … owed his curbed authority to the constant rebellion of his Barons.

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