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n (a yard) by hauling in the weather brace. -- To brace one's self, to call up one's energies. "He braced himself for an effort which he was little able to make." J. D. Forbes. - To brace to (Naut.), to turn (a yard) by checking or easing off the lee brace, and hauling in the weather one, to assist in tacking. -- To…

A set; a kind or description, species or variety. She had lost one class energies. Macaulay.

Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.

ss; not simple or plain; strange; rare. "Acurious tale" Shak. A multitude of curious analogies. Mocaulay. Many a quaint and curiousvolume of forgotten lore. E. A. Poe. Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results. C. J. Smith. Curious arts, magic. [Obs.] Many…

d beautiful relations of domestic life. H. G. Bell. The argument derivable from the doxologies. J. H. Newman.

The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830.

One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.

That part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet. To suppose that the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes. H. Spencer.

d age, men and women. Sir T. Elyot. There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. G. S. Faber.

To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God with doxologies.

the choir or the congregation. David breaks forth into these triumphant praises and doxologies. South.

Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

One who composes elegies. Goldsmith.

A write of elegies. T. Warton.

ricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies. This is a day in which the thoughts . . . ought to be employed on serious subjects. Addison.

Having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active. "A Being eternally energetic." Grew.

acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive. The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects. Paley.

commendation of the character or services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth. Eulogies turn into elegies. Spenser.

o the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1º 20'.

airies. T. Warton. A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. De Quincey.