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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air" [syn: bracing, brisk, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic] n
1: a structural member used to stiffen a framework [syn: brace, bracing]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1750 giving strength, vigor, or freshness <a bracing breeze> • bracingly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brace Brace, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Braced; p. pr. & vb. n. Bracing.] 1. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building. 2. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves. And welcome war to brace her drums. --Campbell. 3. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly. The women of China, by bracing and binding them from their infancy, have very little feet. --Locke. Some who spurs had first braced on. --Sir W. Scott. 4. To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd. A sturdy lance in his right hand he braced. --Fairfax. 5. (Naut.) To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards. To brace about (Naut.), to turn (a yard) round for the contrary tack. To brace a yard (Naut.), to move it horizontally by means of a brace. To brace in (Naut.), to turn (a yard) by hauling in the weather brace. To brace one's self, to call up one's energies. ``He braced himself for an effort which he was little able to make.'' --J. D. Forbes. To brace to (Naut.), to turn (a yard) by checking or easing off the lee brace, and hauling in the weather one, to assist in tacking. To brace up (Naut.), to bring (a yard) nearer the direction of the keel by hauling in the lee brace. To brace up sharp (Naut.), to turn (a yard) as far forward as the rigging will permit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bracing Bra"cing, a. Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bracing Bra"cing, n. 1. The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced. 2. (Engin.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something, especially a place, climate, or activity as bracing, you mean that it makes you feel fresh and full of energy. ...a bracing walk. = invigorating ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Strengthening, invigorating, stimulating.

Moby Thesaurus

activating, analeptic, animating, animative, bearing, beneficial, benign, bolstering, brisk, burdened, buttressing, carrying, cheering, chill, chilly, constitutional, cool, coolish, cordial, corroborant, crisp, crispy, energizing, enlivening, exhilarating, exhilarative, fortifying, fresh, good, good for, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy, holding, hygeian, hygienic, invigorating, invigorative, maintaining, propping, quickening, refreshful, refreshing, regaling, restorative, reviving, roborant, rousing, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, shoring, stimulating, stimulative, strengthening, supporting, supportive, suspensory, sustaining, sustentative, temperate, tonic, upholding, viable, vitalizing, wholesome, zestful, zesty