Anagrams of: BRACTEATE

• cause to be bitter or resentful

• make sour or bitter

• a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink

• a series of acts at a night club

• arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair

• discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization

• not arcuate; having straight horizontal beams or lintels (rather than arches)

• 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)