Any of various fungi of the family Polyporaceae, whose fruiting bodies form on trees and resemble shelves.

(taxation) The move towards increased taxation when an inflation adjustment to a wage or salary pushes a taxpayer into a higher tax bracket (or, in a progressive taxation regime, further into a bracket).

(uncountable, countable) Any of several coarse ferns, of the genus Pteridium, that form dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.

(archaic) A hound; especially a female hound used for hunting, a bitch hound. / (archaic, derogatory) A despicable or disagreeable woman.

(paleontology, informal) brachiopod

present participle of brace

Invigorating or stimulating.

(uncountable) That which braces. / (countable) A brace. / (US) A form of the military attention stance.

(historical) A Mexican national working as an agricultural laborer in the United States from 1942-1964, or similarly a railroad worker from 1942-1945.

(computing) Either of the inequality signs < and >, when used as brackets in programming languages and markup languages.