单词 | bracer |
释义 | bracern.1 1. That which clamps, binds, etc.; a cincture, bandage, brace; †also a pair of braces (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > a band or binding bindinga1300 gird13.. bandc1325 bundlea1382 bonda1400 bracer1579 binder1695 1579 J. Jones Arte preseruing Bodie & Soule i. xix. 34 Vsing instruments..as Brasers, Wastes, or bodies, made eyther of paper bordes, plate, or Cardes, etc. to make them slender. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 11 Bindings, knees, boults, trunions, brasers. 1650 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James 152 Lifting up his hand over his head with a Ballon brasser. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 213 By reason of the Concatenation of the Stones and Iron Bracers. 1799 J. Foster Specif. Patent 2361 Making a bracer or sling for..keeping up breeches. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lx. 198 The chest..was made heavy by ornamental bracers and handles. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > shield > [noun] > strap baldricc1400 guigec1405 gitec1440 bracer1615 1615 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Cupids Revenge iv. sig. I2 Take downe my Buckler..and fetch a Naile or two: and Tacke on bracers. 3. That which braces (the nerves); hence a tonic medicine (a common sense in 18th cent., now obsolete); spec. a drink taken to brace one up (colloquial, originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [noun] > tonic strengthening1571 strengthener1579 corroborative1601 fortification1655 roborant1661 corroborator1674 corroboratica1704 corroborant1738 bracer1740 tonic1799 invigorant1822 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun] > that which or one who refreshes or invigorates spice?c1225 comfort1377 refresherc1450 refreshment1532 reviver1542 sauce1561 salt1579 refocillation1608 whettera1625 fillip1699 stimulant1728 stimulation1733 yeast1769 stimulus1791 inspiriter1821 stimulatory1821 refreshener1824 boost1825 bracer1826 young blood1830 freshener1838 invigoratorc1842 blow1849 tonic1849 elevation1850 stimulator1851 breather1876 pick-me-up1876 a shot in the arm1922 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [noun] > fortifying or reviving hair of the dog that bit you1546 eye-opener1818 bracer1829 livener1870 corpse reviver1871 reviver1876 screw1877 fearnought1880 pickup1881 stiffener1928 warmer-upper1960 1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen p. ix Bark, Bitters and Steel, and such Astringents and Bracers. 1826 W. Scott Diary 12 May in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) VI. 204 Adversity is to me a tonic and a bracer. 1829 Savannah (Georgia) Mercury 1 July If I take..a cooler at nine, a bracer at ten, a whetter at eleven,..who has a right to complain? 1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 182 As a bracer to the nerves, [I] slipped into the provision-basket a handful of..bottles. 1877 J. Habberton Jericho Road 12 Treat him to whisky; he needs a bracer. 1921 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Three vii. 87 Fisher..pushed through the thinning crowd to get a bracer at the bar. 1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror xx. 288 He took some worms and slipped them a stiff bracer. 1951 M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael ii. iii. 113 We're all going into the Swan for a bracer... Do come..and have a drink before your drive back. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bracern.2 The portion of a suit of armour covering the arm. Also a sort of guard for the wrist used in archery, in fencing, and in playing games at ball. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun] > arm armour bracer?a1400 bracec1400 sleeve1465 plate-sleeve1578 bracelet1580 monion1652 brachal1658 arm piece1659 armlet1706 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > guard for wrist bracer?a1400 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1859 Brasers burnyste bristez in sondyre. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 111 Vp on his arm he bar a gay bracer. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 2 A bracer serueth..to saue his arme from the strype of the strynge. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 30 I sawe a manne whyche vsed a brasar on his cheke. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Fiiiv/1 A Bracher, brachiale. 1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1668) i. viii. 47 A mans Arm arm'd in a bracer of wood. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 31 His arrow head he quickly maketh with a little bone, which he ever weareth at his bracert. 1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. II. 125 Presented him with an helmet, bracers, and bracelets, all of gold. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. iii. 89 A round hollow bracer of wood to cover the hand and lower part of the arm, with which he struck the ball. 1886 J. G. Wood Man & Handiwork 241 Modern archers possess..a sort of gauntlet called a bracer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.11579n.2?a1400 |
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