English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Bracket (n.)

The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.

Bracket (n.)

One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.

Bracket (n.)

A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.

Bracket (v. t.)

To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.

Bracketed (imp. & p. p.)

of Bracket

Bracketing (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Bracket

Bracketing (n.)

A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.

Brackish (a.)

Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

Brackishness (n.)

The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.

Bracky (a.)

Brackish.

Bract (n.)

A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.

Bract (n.)

Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.

Bractea (n.)

A bract.

Bracteal (a.)

Having the nature or appearance of a bract.

Bracteate (a.)

Having a bract or bracts.

Bracted (a.)

Furnished with bracts.

Bracteolate (a.)

Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

Bracteole (n.)

Same as Bractlet.

Bractless (a.)

Destitute of bracts.

Bractlet (n.)

A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.