Definition of "reined" [reined]

• Simple past tense and past participle of rein. (verb)

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• "WV = "reined" As in "Harper needs to be ___ in and the Liberals are acting like a barnyard full of chickens.""
• "For when, in after years, his people sought to curb his tyrannies with a revolt that ended only with his death upon the scaffold, outside this very banqueting house at Whitehall, Charles Stuart learned all too late that a "mettlesome horse" needed sometimes to be "reined," and heard, too late as well, the stern declaration of the Commons of England that"
• "It looks at the people, even the lowest and scummiest of them (including Paresh Rawal who bravely plays a middle class businessman who happily looted a Muslim shop and shared in his brother's participative glee in a gang rape) with a kind of reined-in empathy that makes even the seeming perpetrators look like victims."