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Braced aback.

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

That which couples, as a tie or brace. [R.]

Consisting of amber; made of amber. "Amber bracelets." Shak.

An embrace. [Obs.] An humble amplexation of those sacred feet. Bp. Hall.

to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. -- Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. Knight. -- Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angl…

nder Spirit. -- Animal kingdom, the whole class of beings endowed with animal life. It embraces several subkingdoms, and under these there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera, Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

A bracelet. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles. Armillary sphere, an ancient astronomical machine composed of an assemblage of rings, all circles of the same sphere, designed to represent the positions of the important circles of the celestial sphere. Nichol.

An arm ring; a bracelet for the upper arm.

y women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet. Bangle ear, a loose hanging ear of a horse, like that of a spaniel.

dinate with the Ascomycetes, characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc.

A kind of cloak or surtout. [Obs.] Johnson. Let the looped bavaroy the fop embrace. Gay.

In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.

To embrace; to surround. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, generalas, a bird's-eye view.

A tool for boring, of various forms and sizes, usually turned by means of a brace or bitstock. See Bitstock.

A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.

breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them. You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak.

The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.