Noun

(en noun)

The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle.

Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.

(anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.

A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.

The left leg of these jeans has a tear.

A stage of a journey, race etc.

After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.

(nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.

(nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.

(sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.

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One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.

(geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.

A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.

the legs of a chair or table

(usually used in plural) evidence, the ability of a thing or idea to stick around or persist

(UK, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.

In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.

(cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.

(obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.

A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.

That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.

A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.

A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.

* Derham

The little bones of the ear drum do in straining and relaxing it as the braces of the war drum do in that.

The state of being braced or tight; tension.

* Holder

the laxness of the tympanum, when it has lost its brace or tension

Harness; warlike preparation.

* Shakespeare

for that it stands not in such warlike brace

(typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in ; in music, used to connect staves.

A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural ), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.

* 1610 , , act 5 scene 1

But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,

I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you,

And justify you traitors

* Addison

He is said to have shot fifty brace of pheasants.

* Fuller

A brace of brethren, both bishops, both eminent for learning and religion, now appeared in the church.

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 of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.

(nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.

(UK, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.

(mostly, in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.

(mostly, in the plural) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.

(soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.