Refrain

Refrain - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

REFRA'IN, v.t. [L. refaeno; re and fraeno, to curb; fraenum, a rein. See Rein.]

To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.

My son - refrain thy foot from their path. Prov 1.

Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by. Gen 45.

REFRA'IN, v.i. To forbear; to abstain; to keep one's self from action or interference.

Refrain from these men and let them alone. Acts 5.

REFRA'IN, n. The burden of a song; a kind of musical repetition.