Word Meanings - VAMBRACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.

Related words: (words related to VAMBRACE)

• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• PROTECTORLESS
  Having no protector; unprotected.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• PROTECTIVE
  Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. " The favor of a protective Providence." Feltham. Protective coloring , coloring which serves for the concealment and preservation of a living organism. Cf. Mimicry. Wallace. -- Protective tariff ,
• PIECE
  1. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out. Shak. 2. To unite; to join; to combine. Fuller. His adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in a joint opposition
• WRIST
  The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus. He took me by the wrist, and held me hard. Shak. (more info) wriust, LG. wrist, G. rist wrist, instep, Icel. rist instep, Dan. &
• DESIGNFUL
  Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• DESIGNEDLY
  By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
• PROTECTIONIST
  One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
• PROTECTIVENESS
  The quality or state of being protective. W. Pater.
• DESIGNLESS
  Without design. -- De*sign"less*ly, adv.
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• TIMEPIECE
  A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
• CHIMNEY-PIECE
  A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.