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Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.

A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.

A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. English pale (Hist.), the limits or territory within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the country in 1172. Spencer.

A system of theology embracing all religions; a complete system of theology.

A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.

The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.

c performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear.

that division of endogenous plants in which the perianth is wholly or partly petaline, embracing the Liliaceæ, Orchidaceæ, Amaryllideæ, etc.

A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors.

A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.

Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation. [Cant] Plunge bath, an immersion by plunging; also, a large bath in which the bather can wholly immerse himself. -- Plunge, or plunging, battery (Elec.), a voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or withdrawn from, the exciting…

A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.

A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.

eels. -- Pony truss (Bridge Building), a truss which has so little height that overhead bracing can not be used.

A prayer book or breviary; a portass. [Obs.] Portal bracing (Bridge Building), a combination of struts and ties which lie in the plane of the inclined braces at a portal, serving to transfer wind pressure from the upper parts of the trusses to an abutment or pier of the bridge.

Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.

etc. Pounce box, a box for sprinkling pounce. -- Pounce paper, a transparent paper for tracing.

The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks. [Obs.]

See under Core. Blue print, a copy in white lines on a blue ground, of a drawing, plan, tracing, etc., or a positive picture in blue and white, from a negative, produced by photographic printing on peculiarly prepared paper.blueprint for action -- In print. (a) In a printed form; issued from the press; published. Shak…

A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n.