| brace | noun (n.) That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop. |
| | noun (n.) A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum. |
| | noun (n.) The state of being braced or tight; tension. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell. |
| | noun (n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves. |
| | noun (n.) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon. |
| | noun (n.) A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock. |
| | noun (n.) A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt. |
| | noun (n.) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders. |
| | noun (n.) Harness; warlike preparation. |
| | noun (n.) Armor for the arm; vantbrace. |
| | noun (n.) The mouth of a shaft. |
| | verb (v. t.) To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd. |
| | verb (v. t.) To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards. |
| | verb (v. i.) To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up. |
| embrace | noun (n.) To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug. |
| | noun (n.) To cling to; to cherish; to love. |
| | noun (n.) To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome. |
| | noun (n.) To encircle; to encompass; to inclose. |
| | noun (n.) To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences. |
| | noun (n.) To accept; to undergo; to submit to. |
| | noun (n.) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court. |
| | noun (n.) Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fasten on, as armor. |
| | verb (v. i.) To join in an embrace. |
| face | noun (n.) The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator. |
| | noun (n.) That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces. |
| | noun (n.) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object. |
| | noun (n.) That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line. |
| | noun (n.) The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face. |
| | noun (n.) The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The style or cut of a type or font of type. |
| | noun (n.) Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired. |
| | noun (n.) That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance. |
| | noun (n.) Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance. |
| | noun (n.) Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac. |
| | noun (n.) Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery. |
| | noun (n.) Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presence of. |
| | noun (n.) Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases. |
| | noun (n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done. |
| | noun (n.) The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount. |
| | verb (v. t.) To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To Confront impudently; to bully. |
| | verb (v. t.) To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble. |
| | verb (v. t.) To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction. |
| | verb (v. i.) To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite. |
| | verb (v. i.) To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left. |
| | verb (v. i.) To present a face or front. |
| grace | noun (n.) The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. |
| | noun (n.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. |
| | noun (n.) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. |
| | noun (n.) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. |
| | noun (n.) Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. |
| | noun (n.) Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. |
| | noun (n.) Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. |
| | noun (n.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. |
| | noun (n.) The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. |
| | noun (n.) Thanks. |
| | noun (n.) A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. |
| | noun (n.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. |
| | noun (n.) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. |
| | noun (n.) A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. |
| | verb (v. t.) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor. |
| | verb (v. t.) To supply with heavenly grace. |
| | verb (v. t.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to. |
| lace | noun (n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. |
| | noun (n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress. |
| | noun (n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces. |
| | verb (v. t.) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver. |
| | verb (v. t.) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. |
| | verb (v. t.) To add spirits to (a beverage). |
| | verb (v. i.) To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace. |
| | verb (v. t.) To twine or draw as a lace; to interlace; to intertwine. |
| pace | noun (n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step. |
| | noun (n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces. |
| | noun (n.) Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace. |
| | noun (n.) A slow gait; a footpace. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack. |
| | noun (n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure. |
| | noun (n.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall. |
| | noun (n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps. |
| | verb (v. i.) To proceed; to pass on. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack. |
| | verb (v. i.) To pass away; to die. |
| | verb (v. t.) To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round. |
| | verb (v. t.) To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground. |
| | verb (v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in. |
| place | noun (n.) Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space. |
| | noun (n.) A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end. |
| | noun (n.) A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country. |
| | noun (n.) Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling. |
| | noun (n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied). |
| | noun (n.) A definite position or passage of a document. |
| | noun (n.) Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place. |
| | noun (n.) Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for. |
| | noun (n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. |
| | noun (n.) To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis. |
| | noun (n.) To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed. |
| | noun (n.) To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank. |
| | noun (n.) To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend. |
| | noun (n.) To attribute; to ascribe; to set down. |
| | noun (n.) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, esp. the second position. In betting, to win a bet on a horse for place it must, in the United States, finish first or second, in England, usually, first, second, or third. |
| | verb (v. t.) To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place-kick ( a goal). |
| shackle | noun (n.) Stubble. |
| | noun (n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action. |
| | noun (n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament. |
| | noun (n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis. |
| | noun (n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple. |
| | verb (v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. |
| | verb (v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber. |
| | verb (v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars. |
| shade | noun (n.) Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light. |
| | noun (n.) Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural. |
| | noun (n.) An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat. |
| | noun (n.) That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade. |
| | noun (n.) Shadow. |
| | noun (n.) The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes. |
| | noun (n.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above. |
| | noun (n.) Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink. |
| | noun (n.) A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms. |
| | noun (n.) To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes; -- used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes. |
| | verb (v. t.) To obscure; to dim the brightness of. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pain in obscure colors; to darken. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mark with gradations of light or color. |
| | verb (v. t.) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent. |
| shadow | noun (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1. |
| | noun (n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity. |
| | noun (n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security. |
| | noun (n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water. |
| | noun (n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower. |
| | noun (n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom. |
| | noun (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type. |
| | noun (n.) A small degree; a shade. |
| | noun (n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. |
| | noun (n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity. |
| | noun (n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen. |
| | noun (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud. |
| | noun (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade. |
| | noun (n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically. |
| | noun (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over. |
| | noun (n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal. |
| shaft | noun (n.) The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow. |
| | noun (n.) The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light. |
| | noun (n.) That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical. |
| | noun (n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant. |
| | noun (n.) The stem or midrib of a feather. |
| | noun (n.) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill. |
| | noun (n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches. |
| | noun (n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A pole, especially a Maypole. |
| | noun (n.) The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple. |
| | noun (n.) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument. |
| | noun (n.) A rod at the end of a heddle. |
| | noun (n.) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine. |
| | noun (n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird. |
| | noun (n.) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft. |
| | noun (n.) The chamber of a blast furnace. |
| shake | noun (n.) The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation. |
| | noun (n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly. |
| | noun (n.) A fissure in rock or earth. |
| | noun (n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. |
| | noun (n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart. |
| | noun (n.) A shook of staves and headings. |
| | noun (n.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground. |
| | verb (v.) To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate. |
| | verb (v.) Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. |
| | verb (v.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music. |
| | verb (v.) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter. |
| | () obs. p. p. of Shake. |
