| 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). |
