Armor for the arm; vambrace.
A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
The state of being braced or tight; tension.
Harness; warlike preparation.
A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
The mouth of a shaft.
Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
Two goals scored by one player in a game.
To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
To confront with questions, demands or requests.
To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
An act of tracing.
An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
A residue of some substance or material.
A very small amount.
A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
The ground plan of a work or works.
The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
To follow the trail of.
To follow the history of.
To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
To copy; to imitate.
To walk; to go; to travel.
To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.