brachium
Americannoun
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brachia
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Anatomy. the part of the arm from the shoulder to the elbow.
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the corresponding part of any limb, as in the wing of a bird.
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an armlike part or process.
noun
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anatomy the arm, esp the upper part
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a corresponding part, such as a wing, in an animal
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biology a branching or armlike part
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Origin of brachium
1725–35; < New Latin; Latin brāc ( c ) hium the arm; compare Greek brachíōn, formally the comparative of brachýs short
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That part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The Chaldee word braic, a branch, is the Irish braic or raigh, an arm, the Welsh braic, the Latin brachium, and the English brace, something which supports like an arm.
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly
The other bolt connects the extremity of the brake to the pump-spear, which draws up the spear box or piston, charged with the water in the tube; derived from brachium, an arm or lever.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
The passage from Erasmus, "brachium habet ova serpentum," is plainly to be rendered "and with a string of serpents' eggs on your arm."
From Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849 by Various
Fr. brasse, fathom, is Lat. brachia, the two arms, and pouce, thumb, means inch.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Ever since, and long before, Cicero observed, in a letter to his brother Quintus, "Latiorem piscinam voluissem ubi jactata brachia non offenderentur," men who have taken the hot-air bath have loved the ample plunge.
From The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction by Robert Owen Allsop
And then he quotes with admiration Ovid’s line of the goddess of the seas: Nec brachia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley
Some suppose that by "bis pedes, bis brachia," he means that two nails were to be driven into each leg and foot.
From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
Octobrachiate, ok-tō-brā′ki-āt, adj. having eight brachia, arms, or rays.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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