These are the meanings of the letters CABRET when you unscramble them.
-
Acerb (a.)
Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.
-
Brace (n.)
That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
-
Brace (n.)
A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.
-
Brace (n.)
The state of being braced or tight; tension.
-
Brace (n.)
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.
-
Brace (n.)
A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.
-
Brace (n.)
A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
-
Brace (n.)
A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
-
Brace (n.)
A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.
-
Brace (n.)
Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
-
Brace (n.)
Harness; warlike preparation.
-
Brace (n.)
Armor for the arm; vantbrace.
-
Brace (n.)
The mouth of a shaft.
-
Brace (v. t.)
To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.
-
Brace (v. t.)
To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.
-
Brace (v. t.)
To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
-
Brace (v. t.)
To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.
-
Brace (v. t.)
To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.
-
Brace (v. i.)
To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up.
-
Bract (n.)
A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.
-
Bract (n.)
Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.
-
Caber (n.)
A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.
-
Caret (n.)
A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.
-
Caret (n.)
The hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill.
-
Carte (n.)
Bill of fare.
-
Carte (n.)
Short for Carte de visite.
-
Carte (n.)
Alt. of Quarte
-
Cater (n.)
A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
-
Cater (n.)
To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions.
-
Cater (n.)
By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.
-
Cater (n.)
The four of cards or dice.
-
Cater (v. t.)
To cut diagonally.
-
Crate (n.)
A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.
-
Crate (n.)
A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.
-
Crate (v. t.)
To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.
-
React (v. t.)
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
-
React (v. i.)
To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
-
React (v. i.)
To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
-
Taber (v. i.)
Same as Tabor.
-
Trace (n.)
One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
-
Trace (v. t.)
A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.
-
Trace (v. t.)
A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.
-
Trace (v. t.)
A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
-
Trace (v. t.)
The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
-
Trace (v. t.)
The ground plan of a work or works.
-
Trace (v. t.)
To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
-
Trace (v. t.)
To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
-
Trace (v. t.)
Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
-
Trace (v. t.)
To copy; to imitate.
-
Trace (v. t.)
To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
-
Trace (v. i.)
To walk; to go; to travel.