BPage 243
- English Word Brace Definition The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- English Word Brace Definition A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- English Word Brace Definition A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.
- English Word Brace Definition A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- English Word Brace Definition A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- English Word Brace Definition A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.
- English Word Brace Definition Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- English Word Brace Definition Harness; warlike preparation.
- English Word Brace Definition Armor for the arm; vantbrace.
- English Word Brace Definition The mouth of a shaft.
- English Word Brace Definition To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.
- English Word Brace Definition To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.
- English Word Brace Definition To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- English Word Brace Definition To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.
- English Word Brace Definition To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.
- English Word Brace Definition To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up.
- English Word Braced Definition of Brace
- English Word Bracelet Definition An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.
- English Word Bracelet Definition A piece of defensive armor for the arm.
- English Word Bracer Definition That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
- English Word Bracer Definition A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart.
- English Word Bracer Definition A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.
- English Word Brach Definition A bitch of the hound kind.
- English Word Brachelytra Definition A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.
- English Word Brachia Definition See Brachium.
- English Word Brachial Definition Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.
- English Word Brachial Definition Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm.
- English Word Brachiata Definition A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.
- English Word Brachiate Definition Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.
- English Word Brachioganoid Definition One of the Brachioganoidei.