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Bracer   Listen
noun
Bracer  n.  
1.
That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
2.
A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart.
3.
A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.





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"Bracer" Quotes from Famous Books



... cigars and drinking grog, or turn devotee and intoxicate the brain another way."[52] He adds that when he sets to work doggedly, he is exactly the same man he ever was, "neither low-spirited nor distrait," nay, that adversity is to him "a tonic and bracer." ...
— Sir Walter Scott - (English Men of Letters Series) • Richard H. Hutton
... steered him into a saloon for medicine and bought him a stiff bracer of whisky and vermouth. But it only threw Gilfoyle into deeper befuddlement. He was like Charles Lamb, in that a thimbleful of alcohol affected him as much as a tumbler another. He wanted to ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes


Words linked to "Bracer" :   armguard, protective cover, brace, pick-me-up


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