[f. CURB v.2] That curbs; restraining.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills (1872), VI. 319. Who from thinking are free, That curbing Disease i’ the Mind.
1794. R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., IV. 66. ‘To say … that religion is not a curbing motive, because it does not always restrain, is’ [etc.].
