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Braces

noun

1.

An appliance that corrects dental irregularities. Synonyms: brace, orthodontic braces.

Brace

noun

1.

A support that steadies or strengthens something else.

2.

Two items of the same kind. Synonyms: couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke.

3.

A set of two similar things considered as a unit. Synonym: pair.

4.

Either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material.

5.

A rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it.

6.

Elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural). Synonyms: gallus, suspender.

7.

An appliance that corrects dental irregularities. Synonyms: braces, orthodontic braces.

8.

A carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring. Synonym: bitstock.

9.

A structural member used to stiffen a framework. Synonym: bracing.

verb

(past & past part. braced; pres. part. bracing)

1.

Prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult. Synonym: poise.

2.

Support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace. Synonyms: stabilise, stabilize, steady.

3.

Support by bracing.

4.

Cause to be alert and energetic. Synonyms: arouse, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate. "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate"

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"Braces" Quotes from Famous Books

... to spread sail after sail with a rapidity little short of that seen on board of a vessel of war. The rattling of the clew-garnet blocks, as twenty lusty fellows ran forward with the tack of the mainsail, and the hauling forward of braces, was the signal that the ship was clear of ground, and coming ...

— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... ribs forming, as it were, a series of hollow masses, or voussoirs, similar to those of stone, a principle new in the construction of cast-iron bridges, and very successful. The whole of the segmental pieces and the braces are kept in their places by dovetailed sockets and long cast-iron wedges, so that bolts are unnecessary, although they were used during the construction of the bridge to keep the pieces in their places until the wedges had been driven. The spandrels are similarly connected, and upon them rests ...

— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... Captain Hudson. "Haul aft the starboard sheets! Flatten in the starboard braces! Give her the ...

— Hurricane Hurry • W.H.G. Kingston

... 'em," Lamuse asserts. "Without them, to make your braces stick to your breeches, ...

— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse

... the only means of saving the people's lives, and at the same time see the ships so basely leave them. No words can picture their distress; driven from the greatest joy to the utmost despair, death now appeared more dreadful. They had only the foresail hanging in the brails; and the braces of both penters being rendered useless by the fall of the main-mast, and the yard flying backward and forward by the rolling of the ship, rendered them apprehensive that she would instantly overset. The ship ran from the boats, until they remained just in sight; ...

— Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy • Anonymous

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