Word Meanings - ABOX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Braced aback.

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• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• BRACTLESS
  Destitute of bracts.
• BRACCATE
  Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.
• BRACHYPTEROUS
  Having short wings.
• BRACHYCERAL
  Having short antennæ, as certain insects.
• BRACTEOLE
  See BRACTLET
• BRACTEOLATE
  Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.
• BRACTLET
  A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers. Gray.
• BRACHYURAL; BRACHYUROUS
  Of or pertaining to the Brachyura.
• BRACHYLOGY
  Conciseness of expression; brevity.
• BRACHIUM
  The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.
• BRACHYURA
  A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.
• BRACHYDIAGONAL
  Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism. Brachydiagonal axis, the shorter lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal.
• BRACHYPTERA
  A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.
• BRACTEAL
  Having the nature or appearance of a bract.
• BRACTEATE
  Having a bract or bracts.
• BRACK
  An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw. Stain or brack in her sweet reputation. J. Fletcher.
• BRACHYCATALECTIC
  A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.
• BRACHELYTRA
  A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.
• BRACKISHNESS
  The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• PICKABACK
  A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.
• SUBBRACHIAL
  Of or pertaining to the subbrachians.
• COUNTER BRACE
  The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
• NUDIBRACHIATE
  Having tentacles without vibratile cilia. Carpenter.
• AMPHIBRACH
  A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet''ic.
• ABACK
  Backward against the mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. To be suddenly checked, baffled,
• ANTIBRACHIUM
  That part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm.
• UMBRACULIFEROUS
  Bearing something like an open umbrella.