Bra"cer (&?;), 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. Chaucer.
3. A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body. Johnson.
Brach (brk), n. [OE. brache a kind of scenting hound or setting dog, OF. brache, F. braque, fr. OHG. braccho, G. bracke; possibly akin to E. fragrant, fr. L. fragrare to smell.] A bitch of the hound kind. Shak.
||Brach*el"y*tra (&?;), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (&?;) short + &?; a covering.] (Zoöl.) A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.
||Brach"i*a (&?;), n. pl. See Brachium.
Brach"i*al (&?;) or (&?;), a. [L. brachialis (bracch-), from bracchium (bracch-) arm: cf. F. brachial.] 1. (Anat.) Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.