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Bracing   /brˈeɪsɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Brace  v. t.  (past & past part. braced; pres. part. bracing)  
1.
To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.
2.
To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves. "And welcome war to brace her drums."
3.
To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly. "The women of China, by bracing and binding them from their infancy, have very little feet." "Some who spurs had first braced on."
4.
To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd. "A sturdy lance in his right hand he braced."
5.
(Naut.) To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.
To brace about (Naut.), to turn (a yard) round for the contrary tack.
To brace a yard (Naut.), to move it horizontally by means of a brace.
To brace in (Naut.), to turn (a yard) by hauling in the weather brace.
To brace one's self, to call up one's energies. "He braced himself for an effort which he was little able to make."
To brace to (Naut.), to turn (a yard) by checking or easing off the lee brace, and hauling in the weather one, to assist in tacking.
To brace up (Naut.), to bring (a yard) nearer the direction of the keel by hauling in the lee brace.
To brace up sharp (Naut.), to turn (a yard) as far forward as the rigging will permit.


Brace  v. i.  To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; with up. (Colloq.)


adjective
Bracing  adj.  Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.


noun
Bracing  n.  
1.
The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.
2.
(Engin.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.





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"Bracing" Quotes from Famous Books



... lay low; but Shortlands stood on rising ground, and the more bracing air did Primrose good. When she saw how happy Mrs. Ellsworthy made her sisters she forgave her for not ...
— The Palace Beautiful - A Story for Girls • L. T. Meade
... or two of anything but hospitality as generous as that of New York. Well-nourished and undimmed, however, it concealed for them admirably the fact that it was the hospitality they were after, and not the bracing climate or the desire to see the fascinating Americans of London and Paris at home. New York found them agreeable specimens of high-spirited young English people, and played with them indefinitely. Miss Forde, when she sat imperturbably on a ...
— The Pool in the Desert • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... And all the clamor seemed to shine, the light Seemed to shout as a man doth; twice I laughed— I tell you, twice my heart swelled out with thirst To be into the battle; see, fair lord, I swear it seemed I might have made a knight, And yet the simple bracing of a belt Makes me cry out; this is too pitiful, This dusty half of us made up with fears.— Have you been ever quite so glad to fight As I have thought men must? ...
— Chastelard, a Tragedy • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... of the back," that is, slipping down in the chair, bracing the shoulders against the chair-back, tends to injure the nerves by pressure, and also to create a posterior ...
— What a Young Woman Ought to Know • Mary Wood-Allen
... who lived in a village high up on those same downs. Many years ago he had visited her in the breezy place in which she had chosen to make her home, and if his memory served him rightly, and he had no doubt on that point, Windy Gap, as the village was called, would be bracing enough to please the doctor, and quiet enough to satisfy him. To the best of his belief there was scarcely another house within three or four miles, and even if she had possessed near neighbours Mrs. Murray would not have been likely to hold much intercourse ...
— The Rebellion of Margaret • Geraldine Mockler


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