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Topgallant :: Topgallant (a.) Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship..

Interlock :: Interlock (v. i.) To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly..

Brace :: Brace (v. t.) To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves..

Brace :: Brace (n.) That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.

Cat-harping :: Cat-harping (n.) One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.

Sinewy :: Sinewy (a.) Well braced with, or as if with, sinews; nervous; vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as, the sinewy Ajax..

Embracement :: Embracement (n.) State of being contained; inclosure.

Gripe :: Gripe (v. t.) To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.

Spur :: Spur (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut..

Braced :: Braced (imp. & p. p.) of Brac.

Bitstock :: Bitstock (n.) A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.

Weather :: Weather (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc..

Brace :: Brace (n.) 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..

Univocal :: Univocal (n.) A generic term, or a term applicable in the same sense to all the species it embraces..

Round :: Round (n.) The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair..

Abox :: Abox (adv. & a.) Braced aback.

Imbracery :: Imbracery (n.) Embracery.

Epitasis :: Epitasis (n.) That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis..

Ulotrichi :: Ulotrichi (n. pl.) The division of mankind which embraces the races having woolly or crispy hair. Cf. Leiotrichi.

Seljukian :: Seljukian (a.) Of or pertaining to Seljuk, a Tartar chief who embraced Mohammedanism, and began the subjection of Western Asia to that faith and rule; of or pertaining to the dynasty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century..

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