Bracer

1. n. A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.
2. n. That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
3. n. A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.