Definition of embrace

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Embrace (n.) Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug.

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Embracement :: Embracement (n.) State of being contained; inclosure.
Clasp :: Clasp (n.) A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand..
Enough :: Enough (adv.) Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer..
Espouse :: Espouse (v. t.) To take to one's self with a view to maintain; to make one's own; to take up the cause of; to adopt; to embrace.
Reembrace :: Reembrace (v. i.) To embrace again.
Embrace :: Embrace (v. t.) To fasten on, as armor..
Imbracery :: Imbracery (n.) Embracery.
Embracement :: Embracement (n.) Willing acceptance.
Entomostraca :: Entomostraca (n. pl.) One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera..
Hydrography :: Hydrography (n.) That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars..
Pentamera :: Pentamera (n. pl.) An extensive division of Coleoptera, including those that normally have five-jointed tarsi. It embraces about half of all the known species of the Coleoptera..
Fold :: Fold (v. t.) To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly..
Compress :: Compress (v. t.) To embrace sexually.
Inspectorship :: Inspectorship (n.) The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.
Embrace :: Embrace (n.) To encircle; to encompass; to inclose.
Fold :: Fold (v.) That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace..
Encyclopedist :: Encyclopedist (n.) The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences..
Hugger :: Hugger (n.) One who hugs or embraces.
Neophyte :: Neophyte (n.) A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or Judaism..
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