Definition of brace

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Brace (n.) A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt..

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Effect :: Effect (n.) Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects..
Armil :: Armil (n.) A bracelet.
Portal :: Portal (n.) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces..
Counter Brace :: Counter brace () A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive..
Brace :: Brace (v. t.) To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building..
Cuddle :: Cuddle (v. t.) To embrace closely; to fondle.
Reembrace :: Reembrace (v. i.) To embrace again.
Check :: Check (v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended..
Conclude :: Conclude (v. t.) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
Unbrace :: Unbrace (v. t.) To free from tension; to relax; to loose; as, to unbrace a drum; to unbrace the nerves..
Cherish :: Cherish (v. t.) To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle..
Bracer :: Bracer (n.) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart..
Embracement :: Embracement (n.) A clasp in the arms; embrace.
Univocal :: Univocal (n.) A generic term, or a term applicable in the same sense to all the species it embraces..
Bosom :: Bosom (n.) The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them..
Spur :: Spur (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut..
Embraceor :: Embraceor (n.) One guilty of embracery.
Strut :: Strut (n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie..
Pedestal :: Pedestal (n.) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier..
Inspectorship :: Inspectorship (n.) The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.
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