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Word Meanings - BANDAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc. 2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. Zeal too had a place among the

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1. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc. 2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. Zeal too had a place among the rest, with a bandage over her eyes. Addison.

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  • STRAPPING
    Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
  • STRAP-SHAPED
    Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
  • LIGATURE
    A curve or line connecting notes; a slur. (more info) 1. The act of binding. 2. Anything that binds; a band or bandage. A thread or string for tying the blood vessels, particularly the arteries, to prevent hemorrhage. A thread or wire
  • BANDAGE
    1. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc. 2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. Zeal too had a place among the
  • STRAPPLE
    To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. Chapman.
  • STRAPWORK
    A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.
  • BRACELET
    1. An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls. 2. A piece of defensive armor for the arm. Johnson.
  • LIGAMENT
    1. Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington. A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or
  • GIRTH
    1. A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse. 2. The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything. He's a lu sty, jolly fellow, that lives
  • BRACE
    A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion
  • LIGAMENTAL; LIGAMENTOUS
    Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.
  • STRAPPADO
    A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated. Shak. (more info) strappado, from strappare to pull,
  • BRACER
    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. Chaucer. 3. A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to
  • STRAPPER
    1. One who uses strap. 2. A person or thing of uncommon size.
  • STRAP
    A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine. (more info) 1. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging. A lively cobbler that
  • 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.
  • COUNTER BRACE
    The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
  • VAMBRACE
    The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
  • VANTBRACE; VANTBRASS
    Armor for the arm; vambrace. Milton. (more info) Armor)
  • ESTRAPADE
    The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.
  • EMBRACEOR
    One guilty of embracery.
  • EMBRACERY
    An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
  • EMBRACE
    To fasten on, as armor. Spenser.
  • BLACKSTRAP
    1. A mixture of spirituous liquor and molasses. No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop. Judd. 2. Bad port wine; any commo wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.
  • HUSBANDAGE
    The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.
  • IMBRACERY
    Embracery.
  • UNBRACE
    To free from tension; to relax; to loose; as, to unbrace a drum; to unbrace the nerves. Spenser.

 

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