braces take (bras stak)

A stake competed for by braces of dogs instead of individuals, as in field-trials. bracht, brachet (brach or brak), n. [In the pron. brach also, and properly, written bratch (see bratch, bratchet ); setter. A sow pig by chance sucked a brach , and when she was grown would miraculously hunt all manner of deer. Burton, Anat. of Mel. At the third radiale, the series bifurcates into two series of brachial i a . Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 500. 2. Eccles., a reliquary in the shape of a hand and forearm, usually held erect with the hand open and the fingers wearing rings.-3. pl. See extract. Besides their gloves, our bishops wore, on occasions, a certain kind of loose sleeves, called brachial i a , which could be easily drawn over the alb high up almost to the elbow, and thus hinder the cuffs of that vesture and its beautiful apparels from being splashed when the bishop, on Holy Saturday, baptized the new-born infants in the font which he had just hallowed. Rock , Church of our Fathers, ii. 164.