Vocabulary : Bracing to Bract

Bracing : of Brace ;; Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind. ;; The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced. ;; Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.
Brack : An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw. ;; Salt or brackish water.
Bracken : A brake or fern.
Bracket : An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office. ;; A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles. ;; A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support. ;; The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage. ;; One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet. ;; A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. ;; To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets. ;; A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining th
Bracketed : of Bracket
Bracketing : of Bracket ;; A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
Brackish : Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.
Brackishness : The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.
Bracky : Brackish.
Bract : A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises. ;; Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.
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