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o, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse. And bade the nimblest racer seize the prize. Pope.

That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.

One who disgraces.

One who embraces.

An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.

Embracery. [Obs.]

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.

An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure. Woven with antics and wild imagery. Spenser.

erm popularly but erroneously used for baton, a mark of illegitimacy. See Baton. -- Bar tracery (Arch.), ornamental stonework resembling bars of iron twisted into the forms required. -- Blank bar (Law). See Blank. -- Case at bar (Law), a case presently before the court; a case under argument. -- In bar of, as a suf…

olor, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.

The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetraceros quadricornis).

A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger. [Poetic.] Pope.

A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.

One guilty of embracery.

s. -- Fan shell (Zoöl.), any shell of the family Pectinidæ. See Scallop, n., 1. -- Fan tracery (Arch.), the decorative tracery on the surface of fan vaulting. -- Fan vaulting (Arch.), an elaborate system of vaulting, in which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan, as in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster…

Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.

e; -- called also tree of Jesse. Jesse window (Arch.), a window of which the glazing and tracery represent the tree of Jesse.

A small circular opening, and ring of moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture. [Written also oylet.]