Word Meanings - THOROUGHBRACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of Chaise.

• Sprucing
  of Spruce
• Leatherneck
  The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).
• Supporting
  of Support
• Serviceable
  Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.
• SPRAWLS
  Small branches of a tree; twigs; sprays. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
• Spradde
  imp. of Spread.
• Spreading
  of Spread
• Sprightful
  Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.
• Springhalt
  A kind of lameness in horse. See Stringhalt.
• Sprinter
  One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.
• Illustrative
  Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate.
• Leatherwood
  A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy.
• Support
  To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.
• Serviceage
  Servitude.
• SPRAYER
  One that sprays; any instrument for vaporizing and spraying liquids.
• Spread-eagle
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• Sprightless
  Destitute of life; dull; sluggish.
• Springhead
  A fountain or source.

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