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Webster 1913 Edition


Bracing

Bra′cing

,
Adj.
Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating;
as, a
bracing
north wind
.

Bra′cing

,
Noun.
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
.

Definition 2024


bracing

bracing

English

Verb

bracing

  1. present participle of brace

Adjective

bracing (comparative more bracing, superlative most bracing)

  1. Invigorating or stimulating.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
      Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
      The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.

Translations

Noun

bracing (plural bracings)

  1. A brace.
  2. (US) A form of the military attention stance.

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