Astriction

1. n. An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll.
2. n. The act of binding; restriction; also, obligation.
3. n. A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance on the animal economy.
4. n. Constipation.
5. n. Astringency.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.