Word Meanings - UNBRACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To free from tension; to relax; to loose; as, to unbrace a drum; to unbrace the nerves. Spenser.

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• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• LOOSESTRIFE
  The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
• RELAXATION
  1. The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law. 2. Remission from attention and effort; indulgence in recreation, diversion, or amusement. "Hours of careless relaxation."
• RELAXABLE
  Capable of being relaxed.
• LOOSENESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
• RELAX
  1. To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews. Horror . . . all his joints relaxed. Milton. Nor served it to relax their
• TENSION
  The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight. 5. A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to
• UNBRACE
  To free from tension; to relax; to loose; as, to unbrace a drum; to unbrace the nerves. Spenser.
• LOOSELY
  In a loose manner.
• TENSIONED
  Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension. "A highly tensioned string." Tyndall.
• LOOSENER
  One who, or that which, loosens.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• INTENSION
  The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere. This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio
• PROTENSION
  A drawing out; extension. Sir W. Hamilton.
• PORTENSION
  The act of foreshowing; foreboding. Sir T. Browne.
• UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
  The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers.
• COEXTENSION
  The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.
• INEXTENSION
  Want of extension; unextended state.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• OBTENSION
  The act of obtending. Johnson.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• COINTENSION
  The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3 : 6 and 6 : 12 are relations of cointension. Cointension . . . is chosen indicate the equality of relations in respect of the contrast between their terms. H. Spencer.
• SURFACE TENSION
  That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth
• DISTENSION
  See DISTENTION
• EXTENSIONIST
  One who favors or advocates extension.
• EXTENSION
  That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space. (more info) 1. The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.