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BRACKET , in See also:architecture and carpentering, a projecting feature either in See also:wood or See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal for holding things together or supporting a shelf. The same feature in See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone is called a " See also:con-See also:sole " (q.v.). In See also:furniture it is a small ornamental shelf for a See also:wall or a corner, to See also:bear knick-knacks, See also:china or other bric-a-brac. The word has been referred to " See also:brace," clamp, See also:Lat. bracchium, See also:arm, but the earliest See also:form " bragget " (158o) points to the true derivation from the Fr. braguette, or Span. bragueta (Lat. bracae, breeches),used both of the front See also:part of a pair of breeches and of the architectural feature. The sense development is not clear, but it has no doubt been influenced by the supposed connexion with " brace."
BRACKET-See also:FUNGI. The See also:term " bracket " has been given to those hard, woody fungi that grow on trees or See also:timber in the form of semicircular brackets. They belong to the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order Polyporeae, distinguished by the layer of tubes or pores on the under See also:surface within which the spores are See also:borne. The mycelium, or See also:vegetable part of the fungus, burrows in the tissues of the See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree, and often destroys it; the " bracket " represents the fruiting See also:stage, and produces innumerable spores which gain entrance to other trees by some See also:wound or cut surface; hence the need of careful forestry. Many of these woody fungi persist for several years, and a new layer of pores is superposed on the previous See also:season's growth.
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