Definition of embrace

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Embrace (v. t.) To fasten on, as armor..

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Embrace :: Embrace (n.) To cling to; to cherish; to love.
Accolade :: Accolade (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword..
Espouser :: Espouser (n.) One who espouses; one who embraces the cause of another or makes it his own.
Hugger :: Hugger (n.) One who hugs or embraces.
Strict :: Strict (a.) Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature..
Entomostraca :: Entomostraca (n. pl.) One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera..
Embracement :: Embracement (n.) Willing acceptance.
Side :: Side (v. i.) To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party..
Embrace :: Embrace (n.) To accept; to undergo; to submit to.
Collingly :: Collingly (adv.) With embraces.
Chin :: Chin (n.) The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds..
Comply :: Comply (v. i.) To infold; to embrace.
Encyclopedist :: Encyclopedist (n.) The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences..
Effect :: Effect (n.) Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects..
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses..
Colling :: Colling (v. t.) An embrace; dalliance.
Embrace :: Embrace (n.) Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug.
Include :: Include (v. t.) To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five..
Embrace :: Embrace (v. i.) To join in an embrace.
Hydrography :: Hydrography (n.) That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars..
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