BPage 245
- English Word Bracing Definition Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.
- English Word Bracing Definition of Brace
- English Word Brack Definition An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
- English Word Brack Definition Salt or brackish water.
- English Word Bracken Definition A brake or fern.
- English Word Bracket Definition An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
- English Word Bracket Definition A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
- English Word Bracket Definition A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
- English Word Bracket Definition The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
- English Word Bracket Definition One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.
- English Word Bracket Definition A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
- English Word Bracket Definition To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
- English Word Bracketed Definition of Bracket
- English Word Bracketing Definition of Bracket
- English Word Bracketing Definition A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
- English Word Brackish Definition Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.
- English Word Brackishness Definition The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.
- English Word Bracky Definition Brackish.
- English Word Bract Definition A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.
- English Word Bract Definition Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.
- English Word Bractea Definition A bract.
- English Word Bracteal Definition Having the nature or appearance of a bract.
- English Word Bracteate Definition Having a bract or bracts.
- English Word Bracted Definition Furnished with bracts.
- English Word Bracteolate Definition Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.
- English Word Bracteole Definition Same as Bractlet.
- English Word Bractless Definition Destitute of bracts.
- English Word Bractlet Definition A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.
- English Word Brad Definition A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.
- English Word Brad awl Definition A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc.