[f. BRACE v.1 + -ED.]

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  1.  Strained, strengthened, girt, etc.; cf. the verb.

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1633.  P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., V. xl. Where stands a braced drumme, whose sounding head … Gives instant warning.

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1847.  Barham, Ingol. Leg. (1877), 265. In Mariner’s dress, with cutlass braced.

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1862.  Russell, in Times, 27 March, 9/5. The deck is supported by heavy braced oak beams, upon which is laid planking seven inches thick, covered with rolled plate iron one inch thick.

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  † b.  fig. = Contracted. Obs. rare.

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1534.  Whitinton, Tullyes Offices, I. (1540), 31. Nothynge of so strayte and brased stomake and so poore.

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  2.  Her. Interlaced or linked together. Also written brased.

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1562.  Leigh, Armorie (1597), 105 b. He beareth … iij Cheuronnels, brased on the baste Or.

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1766.  Porny, Heraldry (1787), 150. A Man’s Heart Gules, within two equilateral triangles braced Sable.

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