Anagrams of: BRACED

• positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger

• held up by braces or buttresses

• a support that steadies or strengthens something else

• two items of the same kind

• a set of two similar things considered as a unit

• either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material

• a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it

• elastic straps that hold trousers up

• an appliance that corrects dental irregularities

• a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring

• a structural member used to stiffen a framework

• prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult

• support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace

• support by bracing

• cause to be alert and energetic

• a heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) that is tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of northern Scotland)

• sour or bitter in taste

• harsh or corrosive in tone

• food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

• informal terms for money

• cover with bread crumbs

• the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face

• a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses

• a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)

• hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals

• tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface

• go along the rim, like a beard around the chin

• decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers

• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer

• the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22

• a quarrelsome grouch

• the edible flesh of any of various crabs

• a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body

• a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply

• direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

• scurry sideways like a crab

• fish for crab

• complain

• any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars

• durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests

• any cedar of the genus Cedrus

• Clipping of carburettor / carburetor.

• (nutrition) A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant.

• (by extension, metonym) Any food rich in starch or other carbohydrates.

• having the head uncovered