Brace is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BRACE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to support
• make (a structure) stronger or firmer with wood, iron, or other forms of support
• prepare (someone) for something difficult or unpleasant
• To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.
• To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.
• To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
• To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.
• To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.
• To get tone or vigor; to rouse one\'s energies; -- with up.
• prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult
• support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
• support by bracing
• cause to be alert and energetic
• steady or prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant
• press (one's body or part of one's body) firmly against something in order to stay balanced
NOUN:
• a device fitted to something, in particular a weak or injured part of the body, to give support
• a strengthening piece of iron or timber used in building or carpentry.
• a wire device fitted in the mouth to straighten the teeth.
• a drilling tool with a crank handle and a socket to hold a bit.
• a rope attached to the yard of a ship for trimming the sail.
• a pair of straps that pass over the shoulders and fasten to the top of trousers at the front and back to hold them up.
• a pair of something, typically of birds or mammals killed in hunting
• either of the two marks { and }, used either to indicate that two or more items on one side have the same relationship as each other to the single item to which the other side points, or in pairs to show that words between them are connected.
• a similar mark connecting staves to be performed at the same time.
• object fastened to something to straighten or support it
• That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
• A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.
• The state of being braced or tight; tension.
• 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 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.
• A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
• A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
• A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.
• Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
• Harness; warlike preparation.
• Armor for the arm; vantbrace.
• The mouth of a shaft.
• a support that steadies or strengthens something else
• two items of the same kind
• a set of two similar things considered as a unit
• either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material
• a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
• elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural)
• an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
• a carpenter\'s tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
• a structural member used to stiffen a framework

Words related to BRACE

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Words that contain BRACE

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How to use BRACE in a sentence

• A brace of half-bred dogs, named Percy and Douglas, the property of Mr.
• But this book can hardly fail to raise any mind, warm any heart, brace any soul.
• Both the Russian and myself carried and prominently displayed a brace of revolvers.
• In September from ten to twenty brace of partridges are to be picked up, together with what hares a man cares to shoot, and a few rabbits.
• Cossey hev knocked up four brace and a half, and you hev only got a brace.
• He ran with eagerness to a brace of loaded pistols which hung in the room, and, seizing one, presented it to my head.
• The iron brace came down, and with it fell several dozens of brick, some hitting the detective on the legs and feet.
• It is a clear case that I am gone, and what the mischief am I going to do? Suppose I brace up and try to win her, and fail, then I shall be done for sure enough.
• He had planned a brace of rolls and a bottle of milk.
• The locked-up cabin had a brace of bullet-holes in the door, those which caused a great deal of trouble some time since.
• Hayes had a brace of pistols, and four or five little bags before him on the table.
• The front door alone was left so as to be opened, but a heavy table was made ready to brace it if necessary.
• A saw, hammer, and brace and bit were the tools used.
• A metal drill and brace can be purchased very cheaply for this work.
• He examined his own brace of revolvers carefully, and Hal and Chester did the same.
• This time the boys of the third town took a brace, and for a time put up quite a creditable game.
• I shall expect a brace of good long trout for breakfast one of these days.
• The poor youths and their friends gathered helpless and anxious about Brace, who could suggest nothing.
• We can understand this by imagining what the case would be in English if one of our dialects counted things by the brace, another by the pair, and a third by the couple.
• I quickly returned to the stateroom, and, diving into my trunk, took out and buckled on a brace of revolvers which had done excellent service in times past.
• People sometimes brace themselves against arguments.
• Brace had begun his fruitless patrol of the main street.
• There are twenty illustrations, that is, ten brace of Partridges, if he will allow the Baron so far to make game of him.
• Also it made a brace to keep her from turning her head towards him, and she needed every support, physical and mental.
• They had not time to brace up their shattered nerves.
• MISS SYBILLA SILVER Meantime Sir Everard had aroused his valet and a brace of tall footmen, and dispatched them to the aid of the wounded man in the wood.
• But I gave you a brace of revolvers of the same make.

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