BOUNCER — BRACELET NWAD BOUNCER.1
BOUNCER, n. A boaster; a bully; in familiar language. NWAD BOUNCER.1
BOUNCING, ppr. Leaping; bounding with violence, as a heavy body; springing out; thumping with a loud noise; boasting; moving with force, as a heavy bounding body. NWAD BOUNCING.1
BOUNCING, a. Stout; strong; large and heavy; a customary sense in the United States; as a bouncing lass. NWAD BOUNCING.2
BOUNCINGLY, adv. Boastingly. NWAD BOUNCINGLY.1
BOUND, n. NWAD BOUND.1
1. A limit; the line which comprehends the whole of any given object or space. It differs from boundary. See the latter. Bound is applied to kingdoms, states, cities, towns, tracts of land, and to territorial jurisdiction. NWAD BOUND.2
2. A limit by which any excursion is restrained; the limit of indulgence or desire; as, the love of money knows no bounds. NWAD BOUND.3
3. A leap; a spring; a jump; a rebound. NWAD BOUND.4
4. In dancing, a spring from one foot to the other. NWAD BOUND.5
BOUND, v.t. To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension, whether of natural or moral objects, as of land, or empire, or of passion, desire, indulgence. Hence, to restrain or confine; as, to bound our wishes. To bound in is hardly legitimate. NWAD BOUND.6
1. To make to bound. NWAD BOUND.7
BOUND, v.i. To leap; to jump; to spring; to move forward by leaps. NWAD BOUND.8
Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds. NWAD BOUND.9
1. To rebound--but the sense is the same. NWAD BOUND.10
BOUND, pret. and pp. of bind. As a participle, made fast by a band, or by chains or fetters; obliged by moral ties; confined; restrained. NWAD BOUND.11
1. As a participle or perhaps more properly an adj., destined; tending; going, or intending to go; with to or for; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz. NWAD BOUND.12
The application of this word, in this use, is taken from the orders given for the government of the voyage, implying obligation, or from tending, stretching. So destined implies being bound. NWAD BOUND.13
Bound is used in composition, as in ice-bound, wind-bound, when a ship is confined or prevented from sailing by ice or by contrary winds. NWAD BOUND.14
BOUNDARY, n. A limit; a bound. This word is thus used as synonymous with bound. But the real sense is, a visible mark designating a limit. Bound is the limit itself or furthest point of extension, and may be an imaginary line; but boundary is the thing which ascertains the limit; terminus, not finis. Thus by a statute of Connecticut, it is enacted that the inhabitants of every town shall procure its bounds to be set out by such marks and boundaries as may be a plain direction for the future; which marks and boundaries shall be a great heap of stones or a ditch of six feet long, etc. This distinction is observed also in the statute of Massachusetts. But the two words are, in ordinary use, confounded. NWAD BOUNDARY.1
BOUND-BAILIFF, n. An officer appointed by a sheriff to execute process; so denominated from the bond given for the faithful discharge of his trust. NWAD BOUND-BAILIFF.1
BOUNDED, pp. Limited; confined; restrained. NWAD BOUNDED.1
BOUNDEN, pp. of bind. [See Bind, and pp. Bound.] NWAD BOUNDEN.1
BOUNDER, n. One that limits; a boundary. NWAD BOUNDER.1
BOUNDING, ppr. Limiting; confining; restraining; leaping; springing; rebounding; advancing with leaps. NWAD BOUNDING.1
BOUNDLESS, a. Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; as boundless space; boundless power. NWAD BOUNDLESS.1
BOUNDLESSNESS, n. The quality of being without limits. NWAD BOUNDLESSNESS.1
BOUNTEOUS, a. [See Bounty.] Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generous; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as bounteous nature. It is used chiefly in poetry for bountiful. NWAD BOUNTEOUS.1
BOUNTEOUSLY, adv. Liberally; generously; largely; freely. NWAD BOUNTEOUSLY.1
BOUNTEOUSNESS, n. Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; munificence; kindness. NWAD BOUNTEOUSNESS.1
BOUNTIFUL, a. [bounty and full.] Free to give; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors; munificent; generous. NWAD BOUNTIFUL.1
God, the bountiful author of our being. NWAD BOUNTIFUL.2
It is followed by of before the thing given, and to before the person receiving. NWAD BOUNTIFUL.3
BOUNTIFULLY, adv. Liberally; largely; in a bountiful manner. NWAD BOUNTIFULLY.1
BOUNTIFULNESS, n. The quality of being bountiful; liberality in the bestowment of gifts and favors. NWAD BOUNTIFULNESS.1
BOUNTY, n. [L. bonitas, from bonus, good.] NWAD BOUNTY.1
1. Liberality in bestowing gifts and favors; generosity; munificence. The word includes the gift or favor and the kindness of disposition with which it is bestowed; or a favor bestowed with benevolent disposition. This distinguishes it from a mere gift. It is also observed by Johnson, that it differs from charity, as a present from an alms, in not being bestowed upon persons absolutely necessitous. This is often the case; but bounty includes charity, as the genus comprehends the species; charity however does not necessarily include bounty, for charity or an alms may be given with reluctance. NWAD BOUNTY.2
The word may be used also for a free gift, 2 Corinthians 9:5, or a disposition to give, without the gift; goodness in general. NWAD BOUNTY.3
2. A premium offered or given, to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry, manufactures or commerce. NWAD BOUNTY.4
BOUQUET, n. booka’y. A nosegay; a bunch of flowers. NWAD BOUQUET.1
BOURD, n. A just. NWAD BOURD.1
BOURDER, n. A jester. NWAD BOURDER.1
BOURGEOIS, n. burjois’. A small kind of printing types, in size between long primer and brevier. The type on which the main body of this work is printed. NWAD BOURGEOIS.1
BOURGEON, v.i. bur’jun. To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth as a branch. NWAD BOURGEON.1
BOURN, rather BORNE, n. NWAD BOURN.1
1. A bound; a limit. NWAD BOURN.2
That undiscovered country, from whose bourn NWAD BOURN.3
No traveller returns.------- NWAD BOURN.4
2. A brook; a torrent; a rivulet. [In this sense obsolete; but retained in many names of towns, seated on the banks of streams. In Scotland, it is still used in the sense of a brook, but they write it burn.] NWAD BOURN.5
BOURNONITE, n. Antimonial sulphuret of lead. NWAD BOURNONITE.1
BOUSE, BOOZE, v.i. booz. To drink freely; to tope; to guzzle. [A vulgar word.] NWAD BOUSE.1
BOUSY, a. booz’y. Drunken; intoxicated. [Vulgar.] NWAD BOUSY.1
BOUT, n. A turn; as much of an action as is performed at one time; a single part of an action carried on at successive intervals; essay; attempt. NWAD BOUT.1
BOUT, n. [L. bibo.] We use this word tautologically in the phrase, a drinking-bout; or the word is the same as the preceding. NWAD BOUT.2
BOUTADE, n. [Eng. put.] Properly, a start; hence, a whim. [Not English.] NWAD BOUTADE.1
BOUTEFEU, n. An incendiary; a make-bate. [Not English.] NWAD BOUTEFEU.1
BOUTISALE, n. A cheap sale; or according to others, a sale by a lighted match, during the burning of which a man may bid. [Not used.] NWAD BOUTISALE.1
BOVATE, n. [In Law L. bovata, from bos, bovis, an ox.] NWAD BOVATE.1
An ox-gate, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; Cowell says 28 acres. NWAD BOVATE.2
BOVEY-COAL, n. Brown lignite, an inflammable fossil, resembling, in many of its properties, bituminous wood. Its structure is a little slaty; its cross fracture, even or conchoidal, with a resinous luster, somewhat shining. It is brittle, burns with a weak flame, and exhales an odor, which is generally disagreeable. NWAD BOVEY-COAL.1
BOVINE, a. [Los L. bovinus, from bos, bovis, an ox.] NWAD BOVINE.1
Pertaining to oxen and cows, or the quadrupeds of the genus bos. NWAD BOVINE.2
This animal is the strongest and fiercest of the bovine genus. NWAD BOVINE.3
The ox-born souls mean nothing more than the eight living souls, who issued from their allegorical mother, the bovine ark. NWAD BOVINE.4
BOW, v.t. NWAD BOW.1
1. To bend; to inflect; as, to bow vines. NWAD BOW.2
2. To bend the body in token of respect or civility; as, to bow the head. NWAD BOW.3
3. To bend or incline towards, in condescension. NWAD BOW.4
Bow down thine ear to the poor. Eccles. NWAD BOW.5
4. To depress; to crush; to subdue. NWAD BOW.6
His heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave. NWAD BOW.7
He bows the nations to his will. NWAD BOW.8
BOW, v.i. To bend; to curve; to be inflected; to bend, in token of reverence, respect or civility; often with down. NWAD BOW.9
This is the idol to which the world bows. NWAD BOW.10
1. To stoop; to fall upon the knees. NWAD BOW.11
The people bowed upon their knees. NWAD BOW.12
2. To sink under pressure. NWAD BOW.13
They stoop; they bow down together. Isaiah. NWAD BOW.14
BOW, n. An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission. NWAD BOW.15
BOW, n. [See Bow, to bend.] An instrument of war, and hunting, made of wood, or other elastic matter, with a string fastened to each end. The bow being bent by drawing the string, and suddenly returning to its natural state by its elastic force, throws an arrow to a great distance, and with force sufficient to kill an animal. It is of two kinds, the long-bow, and the cross-bow, arbalest or arbalest. The use of the bow is called archery. NWAD BOW.16
1. Any thing bent, or in form of a curve; the rainbow; the doubling of a string in a knot; the part of a yoke which embraces the neck; etc. NWAD BOW.17
2. A small machine, formed with a stick and hairs, which being drawn over the strings of an instrument of music, causes it to sound. NWAD BOW.18
3. A beam of wood or brass, with three long screws that direct a lathe of wood or steel to any arch; used in forming drafts of ships, and projections of the sphere, or wherever it is necessary to draw large arches. NWAD BOW.19
4. An instrument for taking the sun’s altitude at sea, consisting of a large arch of ninety degrees graduated, a shank or staff, a side-vane, a sight-vane, and a horizon-vane; now disused. NWAD BOW.20
5. An instrument in use among smiths for turning a drill; with turners, for turning wood; with hatters, for breaking fur and wool. NWAD BOW.21
6. Bows of a saddle, are the two pieces of wood laid archwise to receive the upper part of a horse’s back, to give the saddle its due form, and to keep it tight. NWAD BOW.22
7. Bow of a ship, is the rounding part of her side forward, beginning where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close, at the stem or prow. A narrow bow is called a lean bow; a broad one, a bold or bluff bow. NWAD BOW.23
On the bow, in navigation, is an arch of the horizon, not exceeding 45 degrees, comprehended between some distant object, and that point of the compass which is right ahead. NWAD BOW.24
BOW-BEARER, n. [bos and bear.] An under officer of the forest, whose duty is to inform of trespasses. NWAD BOW-BEARER.1
BOW-BENT, a. [bow and bend.] Crooked. NWAD BOW-BENT.1
BOW-DYE, n. A kind of scarlet color, superior to madder, but inferior to the true scarlet grain for fixedness, and duration; first used at Bow, near London. NWAD BOW-DYE.1
BOW-GRACE, n. In sea language, a frame or composition of junk, laid out at the sides, stem, or bows of ships to secure them from injury by ice. NWAD BOW-GRACE.1
BOW-HAND, n. [bow and hand.] The hand that draws a bow. NWAD BOW-HAND.1
BOW-LEGGED, a. [bow and leg.] Having crooked legs. NWAD BOW-LEGGED.1
BOWMAN, n. [bow and man.] A man who uses a bow; an archer. Jeremiah 4:29. NWAD BOWMAN.1
BOWMAN, n. The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat. NWAD BOWMAN.2
BOWNET, n. [bow and net.] An engine for catching lobsters and crawfish, called also bow-wheel. It is made of two round wicker baskets, pointed at the end, one of which is thrust into the other, and at the mouth is a little rim bent inwards. NWAD BOWNET.1
BOW-PIECE, n. [bow and piece.] A piece of ordnance carried at the bow of a ship. NWAD BOW-PIECE.1
BOW-SHOT, n. [bow and shot.] The space which an arrow may pass when shot from a bow. Genesis 21:16. NWAD BOW-SHOT.1
BOWSPRIT, n. [bow and sprit.] A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward. [This is probably the true orthography.] NWAD BOWSPRIT.1
BOW-STRING, n. [bow and string.] The string of a bow. NWAD BOW-STRING.1
BOW-WINDOW. [See Bay-window.] NWAD BOW-WINDOW.1
BOWABLE, a. Of a flexible disposition. [Not in use.] NWAD BOWABLE.1
BOWED, pp. Bent; crushed; subdued. NWAD BOWED.1
BOWED, pp. Bent; like a bow. NWAD BOWED.2
BOWELS, n. plu. NWAD BOWELS.1
1. The intestines of an animal; the entrails, especially of man. The heart. 2 Corinthians 6:12. NWAD BOWELS.2
2. The interior part of any thing; as the bowels of the earth. NWAD BOWELS.3
3. The seat of pity or kindness; hence, tenderness, compassion, a scriptural sense. NWAD BOWELS.4
Bowel, in the singular, is sometimes used for gut. NWAD BOWELS.5
BOWEL, v.t. To take out the bowels; to eviscerate; to penetrate the bowels. NWAD BOWEL.1
BOWELLESS, a. Without tenderness of pity. NWAD BOWELLESS.1
BOWER, n. [from bow.] An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. There are generally two bowers, called first and second, great and little, or best and small. NWAD BOWER.1
BOWER, n. NWAD BOWER.2
1. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees bent and twined together. It differs from arbor in that it may be round or square, whereas an arbor is long and arched. NWAD BOWER.3
2. A bed-chamber; any room in a house except the hall. NWAD BOWER.4
3. A country seat; a cottage. NWAD BOWER.5
4. A shady recess; a plantation for shade. NWAD BOWER.6
BOWER, v.t. To embower to inclose. NWAD BOWER.7
BOWER, v.i. To lodge. NWAD BOWER.8
BOWERS, BOWRS, n. [from bos.] Muscles that bend the joints. NWAD BOWERS.1
BOWERY, a. Covering; shading as a bower; also, containing bowers. NWAD BOWERY.1
A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. NWAD BOWERY.2
BOWESS, BOWET, n. A young hawk, when it begins to get out of the nest; a term in falconry. NWAD BOWESS.1
BOWGE, v.i. To swell out. [See Bouge.] NWAD BOWGE.1
BOWGE, v.t. To perforate; as, to bowge a ship. NWAD BOWGE.2
[I do not find this word in any other author.] NWAD BOWGE.3
BOWING, ppr. Bending; stooping; making a bow. NWAD BOWING.1
BOWINGLY, adv. In a bending manner. NWAD BOWINGLY.1
BOWL, n. [In Latin, vola is the hollow of the hand.] NWAD BOWL.1
1. A concave vessel to hold liquors, rather wide than deep, and thus distinguished from a cup, which is rather deep than wide. NWAD BOWL.2
2. The hollow part of any thing; as the bowl of a spoon. NWAD BOWL.3
3. A basin; a fountain. NWAD BOWL.4
BOWL, n. A ball of wood used for play on a level plat of ground. NWAD BOWL.5
BOWL, v.i. To play with bowls, or at bowling. NWAD BOWL.6
BOWL, v.t. To roll as a bowl; also, to pelt with any thing rolled. NWAD BOWL.7
BOWLDER, n. [from bowl.] A small stone of a roundish form, and of no determinate size, found on the sea shore and on the banks or in the channels of rivers, etc., worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a pebble. NWAD BOWLDER.1
The term bowlder is now used in Geology for rounded masses of any rock, found out of place, and apparently transported from their original bed by water. Bowlders of Granite, often of great size, are very common on the surface of the most recent formations. NWAD BOWLDER.2
BOWLDER-STONE. [See Bowlder.] NWAD BOWLDER-STONE.1
BOWLDER-WALL, n. A wall constructed of pebbles or bowlders of flint or other siliceous stones, which have been rounded by the action of water. NWAD BOWLDER-WALL.1
BOWLER, n. One who plays at bowls. NWAD BOWLER.1
BOWLINE, n. A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate parts, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is close hauled. The bridles, are the ropes by which the bowline is fastened to the leech of the sail. NWAD BOWLINE.1
BOWLING, ppr. Playing at bowls. NWAD BOWLING.1
BOWLING-GREEN, n. [bowl and green.] A level piece of ground kept smooth for bowling. NWAD BOWLING-GREEN.1
1. In gardening, a parterre in a grove, laid with fine turf, with compartments of divers figures, with dwarf trees and other decorations. It may be used for bowling; but the French and Italians have such greens for ornament. NWAD BOWLING-GREEN.2
BOWSE, v.i. In seaman’s language, to pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, to pull all together. NWAD BOWSE.1
BOWSSEN, v.t. To drink; to drench. [Not used.] NWAD BOWSSEN.1
BOWYER, n. [from bow, a corruption of bower, like sawyer.] NWAD BOWYER.1
An archer; one who uses a bow; one who makes bows. [Little used.] NWAD BOWYER.2
BOX, n. [Lat. buxus, the tree, and pyxis, a box; Gr. a box, and the tree.] NWAD BOX.1
A coffer or chest, either of wood or metal. In general, the word box is used for a case of rough boards, or more slightly made than a chest, and used for the conveyance of goods. But the name is applied to cases of any size and of any materials; as a wooden box, a tin box, an iron box, a strong box. NWAD BOX.2
1. The quantity that a box contains; as a box of quicksilver; a box or rings. In some cases, the quantity called a box is fixed by custom; in others, it is uncertain, as a box of tea or sugar. NWAD BOX.3
2. A certain seat in a play-house, or in any public room. NWAD BOX.4
3. The case which contains the mariner’s compass. NWAD BOX.5
4. A money chest. NWAD BOX.6
5. A tree or shrub, constituting the genus buxus, used for bordering flower-beds. The African box is the myrsine. NWAD BOX.7
6. A blow on the head with the hand, or on the ear with the open hand. NWAD BOX.8
7. A cylindrical hollow iron used in wheels, in which the axle-tree runs. Also, a hollow tube in a pump, closed with a valve. NWAD BOX.9
BOX, v.i. To fight with the fist; to combat with the hand or fist. NWAD BOX.10
BOX, v.t. To inclose in a box; also, to furnish with boxes, as a wheel or block. NWAD BOX.11
1. To strike with the hand or fist, especially the ear or side of the head. NWAD BOX.12
2. To rehearse the several points of the compass in their proper order. NWAD BOX.13
3. To make a hole or cut in a tree, to procure the sap; as, to box a maple. NWAD BOX.14
4. To sail round. NWAD BOX.15
BOXED, pp. Inclosed in a box; struck on the head with the fist or hand; furnished with a box or hollow iron, as a wheel. NWAD BOXED.1
BOXEN, a. Made of box-wood; resembling box. NWAD BOXEN.1
BOXER, n. One who fights with his fist. NWAD BOXER.1
BOX-HAUL, v.t. To veer a ship in a particular manner, when it is impracticable to tack. NWAD BOX-HAUL.1
BOXING, ppr. Inclosing in a box; striking with the fist; furnishing with a box. NWAD BOXING.1
BOXING, n. The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist. NWAD BOXING.2
BOX-THORN, n. [box and thorn.] A plant, the Lycium, or a species of it. NWAD BOX-THORN.1
BOY, n. [L. puer for puger, for we see by puella, that r is not radical. So the Gr. probably is contracted, for the derivative verb, forms.] NWAD BOY.1
A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; but in general, applied to males under ten or twelve years of age; a lad. Sometimes it is used in contempt for a young man, indicating immaturity, want of vigor or judgment. NWAD BOY.2
BOY, v.t. To treat as a boy. NWAD BOY.3
Rather, to act as a boy; to imitate a boy in action. The passage in Shakespeare, in which this word is found, is supposed to allude to the practice of boys acting women’s parts on the stage. NWAD BOY.4
I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness. NWAD BOY.5
BOYAR, n. A Russian nobleman. [See Boiar.] NWAD BOYAR.1
BOYAU, n. boy’o. In fortification, a ditch covered with a parapet, serving as a communication between two trenches. NWAD BOYAU.1
BOY-BLIND, a. Blind as a boy; undiscerning. NWAD BOY-BLIND.1
BOYER, n. A Flemish sloop, with a castle at each end. NWAD BOYER.1
BOYHOOD, a. [boy and hood.] The state of a boy, or of immature age. NWAD BOYHOOD.1
BOYISH, a. Belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; resembling a boy in manners or opinions; puerile. NWAD BOYISH.1
BOYISHLY, adv. Childishly; in a trifling manner. NWAD BOYISHLY.1
BOYISHNESS, n. Childishness; the manners or behavior of a boy. NWAD BOYISHNESS.1
BOYISM, n. Childishness; puerility. NWAD BOYISM.1
1. The state of a boy. NWAD BOYISM.2
BOYS-PLAY, n. Childish amusement; any thing trifling. NWAD BOYS-PLAY.1
BOYUNA, n. A large serpent of America, black and slender, having an intolerable smell. Also, a harmless reptile. NWAD BOYUNA.1
BP. An abbreviation of Bishop. NWAD BP.1
BRABANTINE, a. Pertaining to Brabant, a province of the Netherlands, of which Brussels is the capital. NWAD BRABANTINE.1
BRABBLE, n. A broil; a clamorous contest; a wrangle. NWAD BRABBLE.1
BRABBLE, v.i. To clamor; to contest noisily. NWAD BRABBLE.2
BRABBLER, n. A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. NWAD BRABBLER.1
BRABBLING, ppr. Clamoring; wrangling. NWAD BRABBLING.1
BRACE, n. [L. brachium; Gr. the arm.] NWAD BRACE.1
1. In architecture, a piece of timber framed in with bevel joints, to keep the building from swerving either way. It extends like an arm from the post or main timber. NWAD BRACE.2
2. That which holds any thing tight; a cincture or bandage. The braces of a drum are not bands. NWAD BRACE.3
3. A pair; a couple; as a brace of ducks. It is used of persons only in contempt, or in the style of drollery. NWAD BRACE.4
4. In music, a double curve at the beginning of stave. NWAD BRACE.5
5. A thick strap, which supports a carriage on wheels. NWAD BRACE.6
6. A crooked line in printing, connecting two or more words or lines; thus boll, bowl. It is used to connect triplets in poetry. NWAD BRACE.7
7. In marine language, a rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, to square or traverse the yard. The name is given also to pieces of iron which are used as supports; such as of the poop lanterns, etc. NWAD BRACE.8
8. Brace, or brasse, is a foreign measure answering to our fathom. NWAD BRACE.9
9. Harness; warlike preparation; as we say, girded for battle. NWAD BRACE.10
10. Tension; tightness. NWAD BRACE.11
11. Braces, plu., suspenders, the straps that sustain pantaloons, etc. NWAD BRACE.12
12. The braces of a drum, are the cords on the sides of it, for tightening the heads and snares. NWAD BRACE.13
BRACE, v.t. To draw tight; to tighten; to bind or tie close; to make tight and firm. NWAD BRACE.14
1. To make tense; to strain up; as, to brace a drum. NWAD BRACE.15
2. To furnish with braces; as, to brace a building. NWAD BRACE.16
3. To strengthen; to increase tension; as, to brace the nerves. NWAD BRACE.17
4. In marine language, to bring the yards to either side. NWAD BRACE.18
To brace about is to turn the yards round for the contrary tack. NWAD BRACE.19
To brace sharp is to cause the yards to have the smallest possible angle with the keel. NWAD BRACE.20
To brace to is to check or ease off the leg braces, and round-in the weather ones, to assist in tacking. NWAD BRACE.21
BRACED, pp. Furnished with braces; drawn close and tight; made tense. NWAD BRACED.1
BRACELET, n. NWAD BRACELET.1
1. An ornament for the wrist, worn by ladies. This ornament seems anciently to have been worn by men as well as women. NWAD BRACELET.2
2. A piece of defensive armor for the arm. NWAD BRACELET.3