Words that rhyme with huffine

n 1: a bitter alkaloid found in coffee and tea that is responsible for their stimulating effects [syn: caffeine, caffein]

v 1: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle] 2: restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day" [syn: limit, circumscribe, confine] 3: prevent from leaving or from being removed 4: close in; darkness enclosed him" [syn: enclose, hold in, confine] 5: deprive of freedom; take into confinement [syn: confine, detain] [ant: free, liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen] 6: to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom" [syn: restrain, confine, hold]

v 1: determine the essential quality of [syn: specify, define, delineate, delimit, delimitate] 2: give a definition for the meaning of a word; "Define `sadness'" 3: determine the nature of; "What defines a good wine?" 4: show the form or outline of; "The tree was clearly defined by the light"; "The camera could define the smallest object" [syn: define, delineate] 5: decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters" [syn: specify, set, determine, define, fix, limit]

v 1: give a new or different definition to; "She redefined his duties" 2: give a new or different definition of (a word)

v 1: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" [syn: polish, refine, fine-tune, down] 2: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern" [syn: complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate] 3: treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil" 4: reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar" [syn: refine, rectify] 5: attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying; "many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet" 6: make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"

adj 1: of extremely fine size or texture; "superfine sugar"; "a superfine file" 2: excessively delicate or refined [syn: overrefined, superfine] 3: (used especially of merchandise) very fine in quality; "made of superfine Flemish cloth"

n 1: a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull [syn: trepan, trephine] v 1: operate on with a trephine

n 1: a colorless gas with a strong fishy smell; used as a pesticide