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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Engender :: Engender (v. i.) To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace..
Stock :: Stock (n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
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..
Legatura :: Legatura (n.) A tie or brace; a syncopation.
Brace :: Brace (v. i.) To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up.
Chaise :: Chaise (n.) A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse..
Elastic :: Elastic (n.) An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber..
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..
Colling :: Colling (v. t.) An embrace; dalliance.
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..
Convert :: Convert (n.) A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity..
Truss :: Truss (n.) To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces..
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..
Hug :: Hug (v. t.) To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace.
Embracement :: Embracement (n.) Willing acceptance.
Suspensation :: Suspender (n.) One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers..
Vantbrace :: Vantbrace (n.) Alt. of Vantbras.
Univocal :: Univocal (n.) A generic term, or a term applicable in the same sense to all the species it embraces..
Underbrace :: Underbrace (v. t.) To brace, fasten, or bind underneath or below..
Toed :: Toed (a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing..
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