Whether you have the pre-exposure Rabies vaccination or not, and are bitten, scratched, or licked on broken skin by a potentially rabid animal, it is very important to get to a medical facility immediately.
Refrain, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated at intervals throughout a poem, generally at the end of the stanza. Refrains are found in the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead and are common in primitive tribal chants. They appear in literature as varied as ancient Hebrew, Greek, and Latin verse, popular ballads, and Renaissance and Romantic lyrics.
Use the verb refrain if you have a sudden impulse to do something, and you have stopped yourself from doing it. It's usually hard to refrain from doing something, because this word is used to describe habits, like smoking, or uncontrollable urges, like laughing. The Latin word refrÄnÄre is formed from the prefix re- back plus frÄnÄre to hold a horse back with a bridle..