Anagrams of BRACTEATES_

• A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern.

• A usually small and narrow street or alley, especially one in inferior or poorer parts of a city, away from the centre.

• A secret, clandestine or illegal scene.

• Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.

• A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern.

• A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.

• (by extension) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.

• (by extension) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.

• (by extension) Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.

• of the most contemptible kind

• most unfortunate or miserable

• showing utter resignation or hopelessness

• showing humiliation or submissiveness

• a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

• a passage selected from a larger work

• remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

• get despite difficulties or obstacles

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• extract by the process of distillation

• separate (a metal) from an ore

• obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

• take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

• calculate the root of a number

• a street of small shops (especially in Orient)

• a shop where a variety of goods are sold