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    Bracket , n. [Cf. OF. braguette codpiece, F. brayette, Sp. bragueta, also a projecting mold in architecture; dim. fr. L. bracae breeches; cf. also, OF. bracon beam, prop, support; of unknown origin. Cf. Breeches.]
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    1. (Arch.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
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      ☞ This is the more general word. See Brace, Cantalever, Console, Corbel, Strut.
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    2. (Engin. & Mech.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
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    3. (Naut.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
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    4. (Mil.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
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    5. (Print.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.
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    6. A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
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    7. (Gunnery) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called fork.
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      Bracket light, a gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall, column, etc.
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    Crotchet , n. [F. crochet, prop., a little hook, a dim. from the same source as croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Crochet, Crocket, Crosier.]
    1. A forked support; a crotch.
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      The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.
      Dryden.

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    2. (Mus.) A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note.
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    3. (Fort.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
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    4. (Mil.) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
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    5. (Print.) A bracket. See Bracket.
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    6. (Med.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.
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    7. A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.
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      He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.
      De Quincey.

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    Crotchet, v. i. To play music in measured time. [Obs.]
    Donne.

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