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One who, or that which, traces.

in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed.

To free from tension; to relax; to loose; as, to unbrace a drum; to unbrace the nerves. Spenser.

To brace, fasten, or bind underneath or below. Cowper.

Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech. The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. Sir W. Scott. -- Un*grace"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*grace"ful*ness, n.

To trace up or out.

The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.

Armor for the arm; vambrace. Milton.

An extensive tribe of bivalve mollusks of which the genus Venus is the type. The shells are usually oval, or somewhat heartshaped, with a conspicuous lunule. See Venus.

Of or pertaining to ginger, or to a tribe (Zingibereæ) of endogenous plants of the order Scitamineæ. See Scitamineous.

Same as Zingiberaceous.

An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. The Abderite, Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

oar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20.

Braced aback.

ral depth. The abysses of metaphysical theology. Macaulay. In unfathomable abysses of disgrace. Burke.

Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. -- Ac*ca"di*an, n., Ac"cad, n. Sayce.

A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

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

" Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper.