Braelwan Cynnea
Braelwan Cynnea is the Galeoth Earl of Agmundr , claimed by disease at Caraskand .

Braelwan Cynnea

Title(s): Earl of Agmundr
Lived: 4059 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Agmundr
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Braelwan Cynnea

Title(s): Earl of Agmundr
Lived: 4059 - 4111
Race: Men
Ethnicity: Norsirai
Nationality: Galeoth
Gender: Male
Occupation: Earl of Agmundr
Books: The Warrior-Prophet

Breaking
"Breaking of Gates" The Gates of Eärwa or Gates of Thayant are a series of fortified passes through the Great Northern Kayarsus Mountains. Their precise location is not known, but is assumed to be north of the Sea of Cerish , possibly in the vicinity of the long-fallen Nonman Mansion of Siöl . Some historians hold that the Gates and Siöl are one and the same, and the Breaking of the Gates also refers to the destruction of the mansion of Siöl.

The Breaking of the Gates

The name given to the assault on the Gates of Eärwa by four of the Five Tribes of Men from Eänna . The commandment of the Gods to throw down the mansions of the " Not Us " was given to Angeshraël on Mount Eshki and was enscribed on the Tusk . Men were led by the Chieftan Kings: Mamayma , Inshull , Shelgal , Nomer , and Uskelt Wolfheart . Since The Chronicle of the Tusk ends with the determination to invade Eärwa , or the “Land of the Felled Sun,” and the Nonman Mansions most involved in resisting the Tribes of Men were all destroyed, very little is known either of the Breaking of the Gates or of the subsequent migratory invasions.

Breaking of Gates
The Gates of Eärwa or Gates of Thayant are a series of fortified passes through the Great Northern Kayarsus Mountains. Their precise location is not known, but is assumed to be north of the Sea of Cerish , possibly in the vicinity of the long-fallen Nonman Mansion of Siöl . Some historians hold that the Gates and Siöl are one and the same, and the Breaking of the Gates also refers to the destruction of the mansion of Siöl.

The Breaking of the Gates

The name given to the assault on the Gates of Eärwa by four of the Five Tribes of Men from Eänna . The commandment of the Gods to throw down the mansions of the " Not Us " was given to Angeshraël on Mount Eshki and was enscribed on the Tusk . Men were led by the Chieftan Kings: Mamayma , Inshull , Shelgal , Nomer , and Uskelt Wolfheart . Since The Chronicle of the Tusk ends with the determination to invade Eärwa , or the “Land of the Felled Sun,” and the Nonman Mansions most involved in resisting the Tribes of Men were all destroyed, very little is known either of the Breaking of the Gates or of the subsequent migratory invasions.

brothers
"Diremti brothers" Two of Sanumnis' Chorae bowmen.

brabantine
-pertaining to brabant, an ancient province of the netherlands.

brabble
-to clamor; to contest noisily.
-a broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle.

brabblement
-a brabble.

brabbler
-a clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.

braccate
-furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.

bracchia
-of brachium

brace
-that which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
-a cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.
-the state of being braced or tight; tension.
-a piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. it may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. a boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
-a vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.
-a rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
-a curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
-a pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.
-straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
-harness; warlike preparation.
-armor for the arm; vantbrace.
-the mouth of a shaft.
-to furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building.
-to draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.
-to bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
-to place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.
-to move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards.
-to get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies;
-- with up.

braced
-of brace

bracelet
-an ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.
-a piece of defensive armor for the arm.

bracer
-that which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
-a covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart.
-a medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.

brach
-a bitch of the hound kind.

brachelytra
-a group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.

brachia
-see brachium.

brachial
-pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.
-of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm.

brachiata
-a division of the crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. see crinoidea.

brachiate
-having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

brachioganoid
-one of the brachioganoidei.

brachioganoidei
-an order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of africa is a living example. see crossopterygii.

brachiolaria
-a peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.

brachiopod
-one of the brachiopoda, or its shell.

brachiopoda
-a class of molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

brachium
-the upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.

brachman
-see brahman.

brachycatalectic
-a verse wanting two syllables at its termination.

brachycephalic
-alt. of brachycephalous

brachycephalism
-the state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.

brachycephalous
-having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded;
-- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

brachycephaly
-alt. of brachycephalism

brachyceral
-having short antennae, as certain insects.

brachydiagonal
-pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism.
-the shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism.

brachydome
-a dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. see dome.

brachygrapher
-a writer in short hand; a stenographer.

brachygraphy
-stenography.

brachylogy
-conciseness of expression; brevity.

brachypinacoid
-a plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.

brachyptera
-a group of coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.

brachypteres
-a group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins.

brachypterous
-having short wings.

brachystochrone
-a curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. this curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.

brachytypous
-of a short form.

brachyura
-a group of decapod crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo
-thorax. [also spelt brachyoura.] see crab, and illustration in appendix.

brachyural
-alt. of brachyurous

brachyuran
-one of the brachyura.

brachyurous
-of or pertaining to the brachyura.

bracing
-of brace
-imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.
-the act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.
-any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.

brack
-an opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
-salt or brackish water.

bracken
-a brake or fern.

bracket
-an architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
-a piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
-a shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
-the cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
-one of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes;
-- called also crotchet.
-a gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
-to place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.

bracketed
-of bracket

bracketing
-of bracket
-a series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.

brackish
-saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

brackishness
-the quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.

bracky
-brackish.

bract
-a leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.
-any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.

bractea
-a bract.

bracteal
-having the nature or appearance of a bract.

bracteate
-having a bract or bracts.

bracted
-furnished with bracts.

bracteolate
-furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

bracteole
-same as bractlet.

bractless
-destitute of bracts.

bractlet
-a bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.

brad
-a thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square
-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.

brad awl
-a straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc.

bradoon
-same as bridoon.

brae
-a hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.

brag
-to talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast;
-- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do.
-to boast of.
-a boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification.
-the thing which is boasted of.
-a game at cards similar to bluff.
-brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
-proudly; boastfully.

braggadocio
-a braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.
-empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.

braggardism
-boastfulness; act of bragging.

braggart
-a boaster.
-boastful.

bragged
-of brag

bragger
-one who brags; a boaster.

bragget
-a liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc.

bragging
-of brag

braggingly
-boastingly.

bragless
-without bragging.

bragly
-in a manner to be bragged of; finely; proudly.

brahma
-the one first cause; also, one of the triad of hindoo gods. the triad consists of brahma, the creator, vishnu, the preserver, and siva, the destroyer.
-a valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. there are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light;
-- called also brahmapootra.

brahman
-alt. of brahmin

brahmaness
-a brahmani.

brahmani
-any brahman woman.

brahmanic
-alt. of ical

brahmanism
-alt. of brahminism

brahmanist
-alt. of brahminist

brahmans
-of brahmin

brahmin
-a person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the hindoos.

brahminic
-alt. of ical

brahminism
-the religion or system of doctrines of the brahmans; the religion of brahma.

brahminist
-an adherent of the religion of the brahmans.

brahmins
-of brahmin

brahmo
-somaj
-a modern reforming theistic sect among the hindoos.

brahmoism
-the religious system of brahmo
-somaj.

braid
-to weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait.
-to mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.
-to reproach. [obs.] see upbraid.
-a plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands.
-a narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.
-a quick motion; a start.
-a fancy; freak; caprice.
-to start; to awake.
-deceitful.

braided
-of braid

braiding
-of braid
-the act of making or using braids.
-braids, collectively; trimming.

brail
-a thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
-ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
-a stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
-to haul up by the brails;
-- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.

brain
-the whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. it is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore
-, mid
-, and hind
-brain.
-the anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
-the organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
-the affections; fancy; imagination.
-to dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. hence, fig.: to destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
-to conceive; to understand.

brained
-of brain
-supplied with brains.

braining
-of brain

brainish
-hot
-headed; furious.

brainless
-without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.

brainpan
-the bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.

brainsick
-disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.

brainsickly
-in a brainsick manner.

brainy
-having an active or vigorous mind.

braise
-alt. of braize
-alt. of braize
-to stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan.

braiser
-a kettle or pan for braising.

brait
-a rough diamond.

braize
-a european marine fish (pagrus vulgaris) allied to the american scup; the becker. the name is sometimes applied to the related species.
-charcoal powder; breeze.
-braised meat.
-see braise.

brake
-imp. of break.
-a fern of the genus pteris, esp. the p. aquilina, common in almost all countries. it has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. less properly: any fern.
-a thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.
-an instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.
-an extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.
-a baker's kneading though.
-a sharp bit or snaffle.
-a frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
-that part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
-an ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
-a large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.
-a piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.
-an apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
-a cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
-an ancient instrument of torture.
-of break

brakeman
-a man in charge of a brake or brakes.
-the man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.

brakemen
-of brakeman

braky
-full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.

brama
-see brahma.

bramah press
-a hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by joseph bramah of london. see under hydrostatic.

bramble
-any plant of the genus rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. hence: any rough, prickly shrub.
-the brambling or bramble finch.

bramble bush
-the bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.

bramble net
-a net to catch birds.

brambled
-overgrown with brambles.

brambling
-the european mountain finch (fringilla montifringilla);
-- called also bramble finch and bramble.

brambly
-pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles.

brame
-sharp passion; vexation.

bramin
-alt. of braminic

braminic
-see brahman, brachmanic, etc.

bran
-the broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
-the european carrion crow.

bran
-new
-see brand
-new.

brancard
-a litter on which a person may be carried.

branch
-a shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
-any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.
-any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
-one of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
-a line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the english branch of a family.
-a warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
-diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.
-to shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
-to divide into separate parts or subdivision.
-to divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
-to adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

branch pilot
-a pilot who has a branch or commission, as from trinity house, england, for special navigation.

branched
-of branch

brancher
-that which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
-a young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.

branchery
-a system of branches.

branches
-of branch

branchia
-a gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.

branchiae
-of branchia

branchial
-of or pertaining to branchiae or gills.

branchiate
-furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments.

branchiferous
-having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

branchiness
-fullness of branches.

branching
-of branch
-furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.
-the act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch.

branchiogastropoda
-those gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the prosobranchiata and opisthobranchiata.

branchiomerism
-the state of being made up of branchiate segments.

branchiopod
-one of the branchiopoda.

branchiopoda
-an order of entomostraca;
-- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. it includes the fresh
-water genera branchipus, apus, and limnadia, and the genus artemia found in salt lakes. it is also called phyllopoda. see phyllopoda, cladocera. it is sometimes used in a broader sense.

branchiostegal
-pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes.
-a branchiostegal ray. see illustration of branchial arches in appendix.

branchiostege
-the branchiostegal membrane. see illustration in appendix.

branchiostegous
-branchiostegal.

branchiostoma
-the lancelet. see amphioxus.

branchiura
-a group of entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (argulus).

branchless
-destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.

branchlet
-a little branch; a twig.

branchy
-full of branches; having wide
-spreading branches; consisting of branches.

brand
-a burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.
-a sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.
-a mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership;
-- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. hence, figurately: quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.
-a mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. hence: any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.
-an instrument to brand with; a branding iron.
-any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. the brands are of many species and several genera of the order pucciniaei.
-to burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict).
-to put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.
-fig.: to fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.
-to mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.

brand goose
-a species of wild goose (branta bernicla) usually called in america brant. see brant.

brand iron
-a branding iron.
-a trivet to set a pot on.
-the horizontal bar of an andiron.

brand spore
-one of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand.

brand
-new
-quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge.

branded
-of brand

brander
-one who, or that which, brands; a branding iron.
-a gridiron.

brandied
-mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches.

brandies
-of brandy

branding
-of brand

branding iron
-an iron to brand with.

brandish
-to move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.
-to play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.
-a flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc.

brandished
-of brandish

brandisher
-one who brandishes.

brandishing
-of brandish

brandle
-to shake; to totter.

brandlin
-same as branlin, fish and worm.

brandling
-alt. of brandlin

brandy
-a strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. the name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the united states to that distilled from cider and peaches. in northern europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain.

brandywine
-brandy.

brangle
-a wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute.
-to wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble.

brangled
-of brangle

branglement
-wrangle; brangle.

brangler
-a quarrelsome person.

brangling
-of brangle
-a quarrel.

brank
-buckwheat.
-alt. of branks
-to hold up and toss the head;
-- applied to horses as spurning the bit.
-to prance; to caper.

branks
-a sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
-a scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. it was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.

brankursine
-bear's
-breech, or acanthus.

branlin
-a young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.
-a small red worm or larva, used as bait for small fresh
-water fish;
-- so called from its red color.

branny
-having the appearance of bran; consisting of or containing bran.

bransle
-a brawl or dance.

brant
-a species of wild goose (branta bernicla)
-- called also brent and brand goose. the name is also applied to other related species.
-steep.
-steep; high.
-smooth; unwrinkled.

brant
-fox
-a kind of fox found in sweden (vulpes alopex), smaller than the common fox (v. vulgaris), but probably a variety of it.

brantail
-the european redstart;
-- so called from the red color of its tail.

branular
-relating to the brain; cerebral.

brasen
-same as brazen.

brash
-hasty in temper; impetuous.
-brittle, as wood or vegetables.
-a rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
-refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.
-broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.
-broken fragments of ice.

brasier
-alt. of brazier
-alt. of brazier

brass
-an alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. it sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.
-a journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. a brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. see axle box, journal box, and bearing.
-coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
-impudence; a brazen face.
-utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.
-a brass plate engraved with a figure or device. specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.
-lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.

brass
-visaged
-impudent; bold.

brassage
-a sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage;
-- now called seigniorage.

brassart
-armor for the arm;
-- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.

brasse
-a spotted european fish of the genus lucioperca, resembling a perch.

brasses
-of brass

brassets
-see brassart.

brassica
-a genus of plants embracing several species and varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (b. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (b. campestris); the common turnip (b. rapa); the rape or coleseed (b. napus), etc.

brassicaceous
-related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the cabbage family.

brassiness
-the state, condition, or quality of being brassy.

brassy
-of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
-impudent; impudently bold.

brast
-to burst.
-of breste

brat
-a coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.
-a coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
-a child; an offspring;
-- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense.
-the young of an animal.
-a thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.

bratsche
-the tenor viola, or viola.

brattice
-a wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
-planking to support a roof or wall.

brattishing
-see brattice, n.
-carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.

braunite
-a native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. it was named from a mr. braun of gotha.

bravade
-bravado.

bravado
-boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.

bravadoes
-of bravado

brave
-bold; courageous; daring; intrepid;
-- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.
-having any sort of superiority or excellence;
-- especially such as in conspicuous.
-making a fine show or display.
-a brave person; one who is daring.
-specifically, an indian warrior.
-a man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
-a challenge; a defiance; bravado.
-to encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at defiance; to defy; to dare.
-to adorn; to make fine or showy.

braved
-of brave

bravely
-in a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly.
-finely; gaudily; gayly; showily.
-well; thrivingly; prosperously.

braveness
-the quality of state or being brave.

bravery
-the quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity.
-the act of braving; defiance; bravado.
-splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation; fine dress.
-a showy person; a fine gentleman; a beau.

braving
-of brave
-a bravado; a boast.

bravingly
-in a defiant manner.

bravo
-a daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer.
-well done! excellent! an exclamation expressive of applause.

bravoes
-of bravo

bravura
-a florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music.

brawl
-to quarrel noisily and outrageously.
-to complain loudly; to scold.
-to make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
-a noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl.

brawled
-of brawl

brawler
-one that brawls; wrangler.

brawling
-of brawl
-quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy.
-making a loud confused noise. see brawl, v. i., 3.

brawlingly
-in a brawling manner.

brawn
-a muscle; flesh.
-full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.
-the flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.
-a boar.

brawned
-brawny; strong; muscular.

brawner
-a boor killed for the table.

brawniness
-the quality or state of being brawny.

brawny
-having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.

braxy
-a disease of sheep. the term is variously applied in different localities.
-a diseased sheep, or its mutton.

bray
-to pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
-to utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.
-to make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
-to make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
-the harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
-a bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. see brae, which is now the usual spelling.

brayed
-of bray

brayer
-an implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.
-one that brays like an ass.

braying
-of bray
-making a harsh noise; blaring.

braze
-to solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.
-to harden.
-to cover or ornament with brass.

brazed
-of braze

brazen
-pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
-sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
-impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance.
-to carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through.

brazen
-browed
-shamelessly impudent.

brazened
-of brazen

brazenface
-an impudent or shameless person.

brazenfaced
-impudent; shameless.

brazening
-of brazen

brazenly
-in a bold, impudent manner.

brazenness
-the quality or state of being brazen.

brazier
-an artificer who works in brass.
-a pan for holding burning coals.
-same as brasier.

brazil nut
-an oily, three
-sided nut, the seed of the bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut.

brazil wood
-the wood of the oriental caesalpinia sapan;
-- so called before the discovery of america.
-a very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet
-work, and for dyeing. the best is the heartwood of caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. an inferior sort comes from jamaica, the timber of c. braziliensis and c. crista. this is often distinguished as braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named.

braziletto
-see brazil wood.

brazilian
-of or pertaining to brazil.
-a native or an inhabitant of brazil.

brazilin
-a substance contained in both brazil wood and sapan wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white when pure. it is colored intensely red by alkalies.

brazing
-of braze

breach
-the act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
-specifically: a breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non
-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
-a gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.
-a breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
-a breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
-a bruise; a wound.
-a hernia; a rupture.
-a breaking out upon; an assault.
-to make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
-to break the water, as by leaping out;
-- said of a whale.

breached
-of breach

breaching
-of breach

breachy
-apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.

bread
-to spread.
-an article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
-food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
-to cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

breadbasket
-the stomach.

breadcorn
-corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.

breaded
-braided

breaden
-made of bread.

breadfruit
-the fruit of a tree (artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the pacific, esp. the south sea islands. it is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.
-the tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. called also breadfruit tree and bread tree.

breadless
-without bread; destitute of food.

breadroot
-the root of a leguminous plant (psoralea esculenta), found near the rocky mountains. it is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

breadstuff
-grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.

breadth
-distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

breadthless
-without breadth.

breadthways
-breadthwise.

breadthwinner
-the member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living.

breadthwise
-in the direction of the breadth.

break
-to strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.
-to lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.
-to lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
-to infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise.
-to interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey.
-to destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set.
-to destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the british squares.
-to shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.
-to exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.
-to destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax.
-to weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.
-to diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow.
-to impart, as news or information; to broach;
-- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.
-to tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle.
-to destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.
-to destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
-to come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.
-to open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.
-to burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.
-to burst forth violently, as a storm.
-to open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking.
-to become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
-to be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.
-to fall in business; to become bankrupt.
-to make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.
-to fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty.
-to fall out; to terminate friendship.
-an opening made by fracture or disruption.
-an interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.
-a projection or recess from the face of a building.
-an opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current.
-an interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation.
-an interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.
-the first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.
-a large four
-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
-a device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. see brake, n. 9 & 10.
-see commutator.

break
-circuit
-a key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.

break
-up
-disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break
-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break
-up of the government.

breakable
-capable of being broken.

breakage
-the act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.
-an allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.

breakbone fever
-see dengue.

breakdown
-the act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
-a noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the southern united states, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
-any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.

breaker
-one who, or that which, breaks.
-specifically: a machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
-a small water cask.
-a wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.

breakfast
-the first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
-a meal after fasting, or food in general.
-to break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
-to furnish with breakfast.

breakfasting
-of breakfast

breaking
-of break

breakman
-see brakeman.

breakneck
-a fall that breaks the neck.
-a steep place endangering the neck.
-producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed.

breakwater
-any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.

bream
-a european fresh
-water cyprinoid fish of the genus abramis, little valued as food. several species are known.
-an american fresh
-water fish, of various species of pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. see pondfish.
-a marine sparoid fish of the genus pagellus, and allied genera. see sea bream.
-to clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.

breamed
-of bream

breaming
-of bream

breast
-the fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.
-either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.
-anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill.
-the face of a coal working.
-the front of a furnace.
-the seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self
-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.
-the power of singing; a musical voice;
-- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.
-to meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
-a torus.

breast
-deep
-deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast.

breast
-high
-high as the breast.

breastband
-a band for the breast. specifically: (naut.) a band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.

breastbeam
-the front transverse beam of a locomotive.

breastbone
-the bone of the breast; the sternum.

breasted
-of breast
-having a breast;
-- used in composition with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single
-breasted coat.

breastfast
-a large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel.

breastheight
-the interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing.

breasthook
-a thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side.

breasting
-of breast
-the curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. it is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. see breast wheel.

breastknot
-a knot of ribbons worn on the breast.

breastpin
-a pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.

breastplate
-a plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.
-a piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.
-a strap that runs across a horse's breast.
-a part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. it was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of israel. see ephod.

breastplough
-a kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman;
-- used to cut or pare turf.

breastplow
-alt. of breastplough

breastrail
-the upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter
-deck, etc.

breastrope
-see breastband.

breastsummer
-a summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder;
-- used principally above shop windows.

breastwheel
-a water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. the water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.

breastwork
-a defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
-a railing on the quarter
-deck and forecastle.

breath
-the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc.
-the act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, i am out of breath.
-the power of respiration, and hence, life.
-time to breathe; respite; pause.
-a single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant.
-fig.: that which gives or strengthens life.
-a single word; the slightest effort; a trifle.
-a very slight breeze; air in gentle motion.
-fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.
-gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.

breathable
-such as can be breathed.

breathableness
-state of being breathable.

breathe
-to respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.
-to take breath; to rest from action.
-to pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently.
-to inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire.
-to inject by breathing; to infuse;
-- with into.
-to emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow.
-to exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes.
-to express; to manifest; to give forth.
-to act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing.
-to promote free respiration in; to exercise.
-to suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse.
-to put out of breath; to exhaust.
-to utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants.

breathed
-of breathe

breather
-one who breathes. hence: (a) one who lives.(b) one who utters. (c) one who animates or inspires.
-that which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.

breathful
-full of breath; full of odor; fragrant.

breathing
-of breathe
-respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air.
-air in gentle motion.
-any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the spirit.
-aspiration; secret prayer.
-exercising; promotion of respiration.
-utterance; communication or publicity by words.
-breathing place; vent.
-stop; pause; delay.
-also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h.
-a mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. see rough breathing, smooth breathing, below.

breathless
-spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.
-not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention.
-dead; as, a breathless body.

breathlessly
-in a breathless manner.

breathlessness
-the state of being breathless or out of breath.

breccia
-a rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors.

brecciated
-consisting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in appearance.

bred
-imp. & p. p. of breed.
-of breed

brede
-alt. of breede
-a braid.

breech
-the lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.
-breeches.
-the hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.
-the external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
-to put into, or clothe with, breeches.
-to cover as with breeches.
-to fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.
-to whip on the breech.
-to fasten with breeching.

breech pin
-alt. of breech screw

breech screw
-a strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.

breech sight
-a device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim.

breech
-loading
-receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.

breechblock
-the movable piece which closes the breech of a breech
-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. it is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.

breechcloth
-a cloth worn around the breech.

breeched
-of breech

breeches
-a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
-trousers; pantaloons.

breeching
-of breech
-a whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech.
-that part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle.
-a strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged.
-the sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.

breechloader
-a firearm which receives its load at the breech.

breed
-to produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
-to take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
-to educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train;
-- sometimes followed by up.
-to engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
-to give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
-to raise, as any kind of stock.
-to produce or obtain by any natural process.
-to bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
-to be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
-to have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
-to raise a breed; to get progeny.
-a race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
-class; sort; kind;
-- of men, things, or qualities.
-a number produced at once; a brood.

breedbate
-one who breeds or originates quarrels.

breede
-breadth.

breeder
-one who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc.
-a cause.

breeding
-of breed
-the act or process of generating or bearing.
-the raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
-nurture; education; formation of manners.
-deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.
-descent; pedigree; extraction.

breeze
-alt. of breeze fly
-a light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft
-blowing wind.
-an excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
-refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
-refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
-to blow gently.

breeze fly
-a fly of various species, of the family tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood;
-- called also horsefly, and gadfly. they are among the largest of two
-winged or dipterous insects. the name is also given to different species of botflies.

breezeless
-motionless; destitute of breezes.

breeziness
-state of being breezy.

breezy
-characterized by, or having, breezes; airy.
-fresh; brisk; full of life.

bregma
-the point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.

bregmatic
-pertaining to the bregma.

brehon
-an ancient irish or scotch judge.

breme
-fierce; sharp; severe; cruel.
-famous; renowned; well known.

bren
-alt. of brenne
-bran.

brennage
-a tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.

brenne
-to burn.

brenning
-of brenne

brenningly
-burningly; ardently.

brent
-of brenne
-alt. of brant
-burnt.
-a brant. see brant.

brequet chain
-a watch
-guard.

brere
-a brier.

brest
-for bursteth.
-alt. of breast

breste
-to burst.

brestsummer
-see breastsummer.

bret
-see birt.

bretful
-brimful.

brethren
-pl. of brother.
-of brother
-of brother

breton
-of or relating to brittany, or bretagne, in france.
-a native or inhabitant of brittany, or bretagne, in france; also, the ancient language of brittany; armorican.

brett
-same as britzska.

brettice
-the wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. see brattice.

brettices
-of brettice

bretwalda
-the official title applied to that one of the anglo
-saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the british tribes.

bretzel
-see pretzel.

breve
-a note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. when dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. it was formerly of a square figure (as thus: / ), but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides;
-- formerly much used for choir service.
-any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
-a curved mark [/] used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel.
-the great ant thrush of sumatra (pitta gigas), which has a very short tail.

brevet
-a warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [french usage].
-a commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer.
-to confer rank upon by brevet.
-taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission.

brevetcies
-of brevetcy

brevetcy
-the rank or condition of a brevet officer.

brevetted
-of brevet

brevetting
-of brevet

breviaries
-of breviary

breviary
-an abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary.
-a book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the roman catholic or of the greek church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline;
-- distinguished from the missal.

breviate
-a short compend; a summary; a brief statement.
-a lawyer's brief.
-to abbreviate.

breviature
-an abbreviature; an abbreviation.

brevier
-a size of type between bourgeois and minion.

breviloquence
-a brief and pertinent mode of speaking.

breviped
-having short legs.
-a breviped bird.

brevipen
-a brevipennate bird.

brevipennate
-short
-winged;
-- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.

brevirostral
-alt. of brevirostrate

brevirostrate
-short
-billed; having a short beak.

brevities
-of brevity

brevity
-shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.
-contraction into few words; conciseness.

brew
-to boil or seethe; to cook.
-to prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
-to prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
-to foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
-to attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
-to be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.
-the mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.

brewage
-malt liquor; drink brewed.

brewed
-of brew

brewer
-one who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.

brewery
-a brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.

brewhouse
-a house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.

brewing
-of brew
-the act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.
-the quantity brewed at once.
-a mixing together.
-a gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds.

brewis
-broth or pottage.
-bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter.

brewsterite
-a rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. it is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia.

brezilin
-see brazilin.

briar
-same as brier.
-a plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of rosa, rubus, and smilax.
-fig.: anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

briarean
-pertaining to, or resembling, briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred
-handed or many
-handed.

bribable
-capable of being bribed.

bribe
-a gift begged; a present.
-a price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust.
-that which seduces; seduction; allurement.
-to rob or steal.
-to give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to.
-to gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.
-to commit robbery or theft.
-to give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise.

bribed
-of bribe

bribeless
-incapable of being bribed; free from bribes.

briber
-a thief.
-one who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices.
-that which bribes; a bribe.

briberies
-of bribery

bribery
-robbery; extortion.
-the act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements.

bribing
-of bribe

bric
-a brac
-miscellaneous curiosities and works of decorative art, considered collectively.

brick
-a block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun
-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
-bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
-any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
-a good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
-to lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
-to imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.

brickbat
-a piece or fragment of a brick. see bat, 4.

bricked
-of brick
-of brisk

bricking
-of brick
-of brisk

brickkiln
-a kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.

bricklayer
-one whose occupation is to build with bricks.

bricklaying
-the art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.

brickle
-brittle; easily broken.

brickleness
-brittleness.

brickmaker
-one whose occupation is to make bricks.

brickwork
-anything made of bricks.
-the act of building with or laying bricks.

bricky
-full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust.

brickyard
-a place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.

bricole
-a kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

brid
-a bird.

bridal
-of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
-a nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.

bridalty
-celebration of the nuptial feast.

bride
-a woman newly married, or about to be married.
-fig.: an object ardently loved.
-to make a bride of.

bride
-ale
-a rustic wedding feast; a bridal. see ale.

bridebed
-the marriage bed.

bridecake
-rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.

bridechamber
-the nuptial apartment.

bridegroom
-a man newly married, or just about to be married.

brideknot
-a knot of ribbons worn by a guest at a wedding; a wedding favor.

bridemaid
-alt. of brideman

brideman
-see bridesmaid, bridesman.

bridesmaid
-a female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.

bridesman
-a male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man."

bridesmen
-of bridesman

bridestake
-a stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round.

bridewell
-a house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons;
-- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near st. bride's (or bridget's) well, in london, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.

bridge
-a structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.
-anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
-the small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.
-a device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
-a low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.;
-- usually called a bridge wall.
-to build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
-to open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
-to find a way of getting over, as a difficulty;
-- generally with over.

bridge
-ward
-a bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge.
-the principal ward of a key.

bridgeboard
-a notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.
-a board or plank used as a bridge.

bridged
-of bridge

bridgehead
-a fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete
-de
-pont.

bridgeing
-the system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.

bridgeless
-having no bridge; not bridged.

bridgepot
-the adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle.

bridgetree
-the beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill.

bridgey
-full of bridges.

bridging
-of bridge

bridle
-the head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.
-a restraint; a curb; a check.
-the piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.
-a span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.
-a mooring hawser.
-to put a bridle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse.
-to restrain, guide, or govern, with, or as with, a bridle; to check, curb, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to bridle a muse.
-to hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner;
-- usually with up.

bridle iron
-a strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had;
-- called also stirrup and hanger.

bridled
-of bridle

bridler
-one who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle.

bridling
-of bridle

bridoon
-the snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. it is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein.

brief
-short in duration.
-concise; terse; succinct.
-rife; common; prevalent.
-briefly.
-soon; quickly.
-a short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.
-an epitome.
-an abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. this word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.
-a writ; a breve. see breve, n., 2.
-a writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.
-a letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
-to make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.

briefless
-having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister.

briefly
-concisely; in few words.

briefman
-one who makes a brief.
-a copier of a manuscript.

briefness
-the quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.

brier
-alt. of briar

briered
-set with briers.

briery
-full of briers; thorny.
-a place where briers grow.

brig
-a bridge.
-a two
-masted, square
-rigged vessel.

brigade
-a body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.
-any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade.
-to form into a brigade, or into brigades.

brigaded
-of brigade

brigadier general
-an officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. he commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.

brigading
-of brigade

brigand
-a light
-armed, irregular foot soldier.
-a lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter.

brigandage
-life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.

brigandine
-a coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. it was worn in the middle ages.

brigandish
-like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.

brigandism
-brigandage.

brigantine
-a practical vessel.
-a two
-masted, square
-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail.
-see brigandine.

brigge
-a bridge.

bright
-see brite, v. i.
-radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much light; shining; luminous; not dark.
-transmitting light; clear; transparent.
-having qualities that render conspicuous or attractive, or that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent with charms; as, bright beauty.
-having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
-sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; shedding cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery.
-illustrious; glorious.
-manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.
-of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance.
-splendor; brightness.
-brightly.
-to be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops.

bright's disease
-an affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. several varieties of bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process.

bright
-harnessed
-having glittering armor.

brighten
-to make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.
-to make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to.
-to improve or relieve by dispelling gloom or removing that which obscures and darkens; to shed light upon; to make cheerful; as, to brighten one's prospects.
-to make acute or witty; to enliven.
-to grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful.

brightened
-of brighten

brightening
-of brighten

brightly
-brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor.
-with lively intelligence; intelligently.

brightness
-the quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.
-acuteness (of the faculties); sharpness 9wit.

brightsome
-bright; clear; luminous; brilliant.

brigose
-contentious; quarrelsome.

brigue
-a cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel.
-to contend for; to canvass; to solicit.

brike
-a breach; ruin; downfall; peril.

brill
-a fish allied to the turbot (rhombus levis), much esteemed in england for food;
-- called also bret, pearl, prill. see bret.

brillance
-brilliancy.

brillancy
-the quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brightness, whether in a literal or figurative sense.

brillante
-in a gay, showy, and sparkling style.

brilliant
-sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.
-distinguished by qualities which excite admiration; splendid; shining; as, brilliant talents.
-a diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendered more brilliant. it has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated facets. it is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below.
-the smallest size of type used in england printing.
-a kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving.

brilliantly
-in a brilliant manner.

brilliantness
-brilliancy; splendor; glitter.

brills
-the hair on the eyelids of a horse.

brim
-the rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.
-the edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.
-the rim of a hat.
-to be full to the brim.
-to fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
-fierce; sharp; cold. see breme.

brimful
-full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow.

brimless
-having no brim; as, brimless caps.

brimmed
-of brim
-having a brim;
-- usually in composition.
-full to, or level with, the brim.

brimmer
-a brimful bowl; a bumper.

brimming
-of brim
-full to the brim; overflowing.

brimstone
-sulphur; see sulphur.
-made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches.

brimstony
-containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous.

brin
-one of the radiating sticks of a fan. the outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.

brinded
-of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled.

brindle
-the state of being brindled.
-a brindled color; also, that which is brindled.
-brindled.

brindled
-having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded.

brine
-water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.
-the ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.
-tears;
-- so called from their saltness.
-to steep or saturate in brine.
-to sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.

bring
-to convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.
-to cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to.
-to convey; to move; to carry or conduct.
-to persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
-to produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton?

bringer
-one who brings.

bringing
-of bring

brininess
-the state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.

brinish
-like brine; somewhat salt; saltish.

brinishness
-state or quality of being brinish.

brinjaree
-a rough
-haired east indian variety of the greyhound.

brink
-the edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. also fig.

briny
-of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.

briony
-see bryony.

brisk
-full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
-full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.
-to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude;
-- usually with up.

brisket
-that part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.

briskly
-in a brisk manner; nimbly.

briskness
-liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.

bristle
-a short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
-a stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
-to erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog;
-- sometimes with up.
-to fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
-to rise or stand erect, like bristles.
-to appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
-to show defiance or indignation.

bristle
-pointed
-terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves.

bristle
-shaped
-resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle
-shaped leaf.

bristled
-of bristle

bristletail
-an insect of the genera lepisma, campodea, etc., belonging to the thysanura.

bristliness
-the quality or state of having bristles.

bristling
-of bristle

bristly
-thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.

bristol
-a seaport city in the west of england.

brisure
-any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.
-a mark of cadency or difference.

brit
-alt. of britt

britannia
-a white
-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. it somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. called also britannia metal.

britannic
-of or pertaining to great britain; british; as, her britannic majesty.

brite
-alt. of bright

briticism
-a word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to great britain; any manner of using a word or words that is peculiar to great britain.

british
-of or pertaining to great britain or to its inhabitants;
-- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants.
-people of great britain.

britisher
-an englishman; a subject or inhabitant of great britain, esp. one in the british military or naval service.

briton
-british.
-a native of great britain.

britt
-the young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.
-the minute marine animals (chiefly entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.

brittle
-easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.

brittle star
-any species of ophiuran starfishes. see ophiuroidea.

brittlely
-in a brittle manner.

brittleness
-aptness to break; fragility.

britzska
-a long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.

brize
-the breeze fly. see breeze.

broach
-a spit.
-an awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
-a tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. the broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.
-a straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.
-a broad chisel for stonecutting.
-a spire rising from a tower.
-a clasp for fastening a garment. see brooch.
-a spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.
-the stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
-the pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
-to spit; to pierce as with a spit.
-to tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. hence: to let out; to shed, as blood.
-to open for the first time, as stores.
-to make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
-to cause to begin or break out.
-to shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
-to enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.

broached
-of broach

broacher
-a spit; a broach.
-one who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter.

broaching
-of broach

broad
-wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side;
-- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
-extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
-extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
-fig.: having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained;
-- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.
-comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
-plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
-free; unrestrained; unconfined.
-characterized by breadth. see breadth.
-cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
-strongly marked; as, a broad scotch accent.
-the broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
-the spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
-a lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

broad church
-a portion of the church of england, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the high church party and the low church, or evangelical, party. the term has been applied to other bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of christian doctrine and fellowship.

broad gauge
-a wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. see gauge.

broad seal
-the great seal of england; the public seal of a country or state.

broad
-brimmed
-having a broad brim.

broad
-horned
-having horns spreading widely.

broad
-leafed
-having broad, or relatively broad, leaves.

broad
-leaved
-alt. of broad
-leafed

broadax broadaxe
-an ancient military weapon; a battle
-ax.
-an ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber.

broadbill
-a wild duck (aythya, / fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the united states, in autumn;
-- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. see scaup duck.
-the shoveler. see shoveler.

broadbrim
-a hat with a very broad brim, like those worn by men of the society of friends.
-a member of the society of friends; a quaker.

broadcast
-a casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
-cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
-scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing);
-- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.
-so as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.

broadcloth
-a fine smooth
-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half);
-- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.

broaden
-to grow broad; to become broader or wider.
-to make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive.

broadened
-of broaden

broadening
-of broaden

broadish
-rather broad; moderately broad.

broadleaf
-a tree (terminalia latifolia) of jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc;
-- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.

broadly
-in a broad manner.

broadmouth
-one of the eurylaimidae, a family of east indian passerine birds.

broadness
-the condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.

broadpiece
-an old english gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a carolus or jacobus.

broadseal
-to stamp with the broad seal; to make sure; to guarantee or warrant.

broadside
-the side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.
-a discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.
-a volley of abuse or denunciation.
-a sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only;
-- called also broadsheet.

broadspread
-widespread.

broadspreading
-spreading widely.

broadsword
-a sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.

broadwise
-breadthwise.

brob
-a peculiar brad
-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.

brobdingnagian
-colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic.
-a giant.

brocade
-silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.;
-- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.

brocaded
-woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc.
-dressed in brocade.

brocage
-see brokkerage.

brocard
-an elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics.

brocatel
-a kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.
-a marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. it is also called siena marble, from its locality.

brocatello
-same as brocatel.

broccoli
-a plant of the cabbage species (brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. the "curd," or flowering head, is the part used for food.

brochantite
-a basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald
-green crystals.

broche
-woven with a figure; as, broche goods.
-see broach, n.

brochure
-a printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet.

brock
-a badger.
-a brocket.

brocket
-a male red deer two years old;
-- sometimes called brock.
-a small south american deer, of several species (coassus superciliaris, c. rufus, and c. auritus).

brockish
-beastly; brutal.

brodekin
-a buskin or half
-boot.

brog
-a pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small sharp stick.
-to prod with a pointed instrument, as a lance; also, to broggle.

brogan
-a stout, coarse shoe; a brogue.

broggle
-to sniggle, or fish with a brog.

brogue
-a stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.
-a dialectic pronunciation; esp. the irish manner of pronouncing english.

brogues
-breeches.

broid
-to braid.

broider
-to embroider.

broidered
-of broider

broiderer
-one who embroiders.

broidery
-embroidery.

broil
-a tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
-to cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.
-to subject to great (commonly direct) heat.
-to be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.

broiled
-of broil

broiler
-one who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels.
-one who broils, or cooks by broiling.
-a gridiron or other utensil used in broiling.
-a chicken or other bird fit for broiling.

broiling
-of broil
-excessively hot; as, a broiling sun.
-the act of causing anything to broil.

brokage
-see brokerage.

broke
-of break
-to transact business for another.
-to act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
-imp. & p. p. of break.

broken
-of break
-separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.
-disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.
-fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.
-made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships.
-subdued; humbled; contrite.
-subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.
-crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted.
-not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.
-ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.
-imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken english; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting.

broken wind
-the heaves.

broken
-backed
-having a broken back; as, a broken
-backed chair.
-hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end;
-- said of a ship.

broken
-bellied
-having a ruptured belly.

broken
-hearted
-having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.

broken
-winded
-having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

brokenly
-in a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language.

brokenness
-the state or quality of being broken; unevenness.
-contrition; as, brokenness of heart.

broker
-one who transacts business for another; an agent.
-an agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. he takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. he generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own.
-a dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.
-a dealer in secondhand goods.
-a pimp or procurer.

brokerage
-the business or employment of a broker.
-the fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.

brokerly
-mean; servile.

brokery
-the business of a broker.

broking
-of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage.

broma
-aliment; food.
-a light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.

bromal
-an oily, colorless fluid, cbr3.coh, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol.

bromate
-a salt of bromic acid.
-to combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.

bromatologist
-one versed in the science of foods.

bromatology
-the science of aliments.

brome
-see bromine.

brome grass
-a genus (bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.

bromeliaceous
-pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera tillandsia and billbergia are examples. the pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.

bromic
-of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine;
-- said of those compounds of bromine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, bromic acid.

bromide
-a compound of bromine with a positive radical.

brominate
-see bromate, v. t.

bromine
-one of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. atomic weight 79.8. symbol br. it is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. in combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. it occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.

bromism
-a diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. it is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.

bromize
-to prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate.

bromlife
-a carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite;
-- called also alstonite.

bromoform
-a colorless liquid, chbr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. it is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. in composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. it is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects.

brompicrin
-a pungent colorless explosive liquid, cno2br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin.

bromuret
-see bromide.

bromyrite
-silver bromide, a rare mineral;
-- called also bromargyrite.

bronchi
-see bronchus.
-of bronchus

bronchia
-the bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi.

bronchial
-belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs.

bronchic
-bronchial.

bronchiole
-a minute bronchial tube.

bronchitic
-of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.

bronchitis
-inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.

broncho
-a native or a mexican horse of small size.

broncho
-pneumonia
-inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia.

bronchocele
-see goiter.

bronchophony
-a modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch;
-- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro
-thoracic disease.

bronchotome
-an instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.

bronchotomy
-an incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.

bronchus
-one of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.

bronco
-same as broncho.

brond
-a sword.

brontolite
-alt. of brontolith

brontolith
-an aerolite.

brontology
-a treatise upon thunder.

brontosaurus
-a genus of american jurassic dinosaurs. a length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.

brontotherium
-a genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western north america. they were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four
-toed. see illustration in appendix.

brontozoum
-an extinct animal of large size, known from its three
-toed footprints in mesozoic sandstone.

bronze
-an alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. it is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. the varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.
-a statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.
-a yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.
-boldness; impudence; "brass."
-to give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.
-to make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

bronzed
-of bronze

bronzewing
-an australian pigeon of the genus phaps, of several species;
-- so called from its bronze plumage.

bronzine
-a metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze.
-made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.

bronzing
-of bronze
-the act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes.
-a material for bronzing.

bronzist
-one who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes.

bronzite
-a variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. it is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.

bronzy
-like bronze.

brooch
-an ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. formerly worn by men on the hat.
-a painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an india painting.
-to adorn as with a brooch.

brood
-the young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
-the young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
-that which is bred or produced; breed; species.
-heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
-sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
-kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
-to sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
-to have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought;
-- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
-to sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
-to cherish with care.
-to think anxiously or moodily upon.

brooded
-of brood

brooding
-of brood

broody
-inclined to brood.

brook
-a natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
-to use; to enjoy.
-to bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.
-to deserve; to earn.

brook mint
-see water mint.

brooked
-of brook

brooking
-of brook

brookite
-a mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.

brooklet
-a small brook.

brooklime
-a plant (veronica beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. the american species is v. americana.

brookside
-the bank of a brook.

brookweed
-a small white
-flowered herb (samolus valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

broom
-a plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the cytisus scoparius of western europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.
-an implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle;
-- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
-see bream.

broom corn
-a variety of sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

broom rape
-a genus (orobanche) of parasitic plants of europe and asia. they are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. the name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as aphyllon uniflorumand a. ludovicianum.

broomstaff
-a broomstick.

broomstick
-a stick used as a handle of a broom.

broomy
-of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom.

brose
-pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. it is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used.

brotel
-brittle.

brotelness
-brittleness.

broth
-liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.

brothel
-a house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.

brotheler
-one who frequents brothels.

brothelry
-lewdness; obscenity; a brothel.

brother
-a male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. in the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
-one related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.;
-- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.
-one who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.
-to make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.

brother german
-a brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.

brother
-in
-law
-the brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.

brothered
-of brother

brotherhood
-the state of being brothers or a brother.
-an association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
-the whole body of persons engaged in the same business,
-- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
-persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.

brotherliness
-the state or quality of being brotherly.

brotherly
-of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.
-like a brother; affectionately; kindly.

brothers
-of brother
-of brother

brothers
-in
-law
-of brother
-in
-law

brouded
-braided; broidered.

brougham
-a light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.

brought
-of bring

brow
-the prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.
-the hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow.
-the forehead; as, a feverish brow.
-the general air of the countenance.
-the edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.
-to bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.

browbeat
-of browbeat
-to depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses.

browbeaten
-of browbeat

browbeating
-of browbeat
-the act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions.

browbound
-crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem.

browdyng
-embroidery.

browed
-having (such) a brow;
-- used in composition; as, dark
-browed, stern
-browed.

browless
-without shame.

brown
-of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
-a dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.
-to make brown or dusky.
-to make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
-to give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
-to become brown.

brown bill
-a bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. see 4th bill.

brown thrush
-a common american singing bird (harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird;
-- also called brown thrasher.

brownback
-the dowitcher or red
-breasted snipe. see dowitcher.

browned
-of brown

brownian
-pertaining to dr. robert brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below.

brownie
-an imaginary good
-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.

browning
-of brown
-the act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
-a smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

brownish
-somewhat brown.

brownism
-the views or teachings of robert brown of the brownists.
-the doctrines of the brunonian system of medicine. see brunonian.

brownist
-a follower of robert brown, of england, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.
-one who advocates the brunonian system of medicine.

brownness
-the quality or state of being brown.

brownstone
-a dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.

brownwort
-a species of figwort or scrophularia (s. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.

browny
-brown or, somewhat brown.

browpost
-a beam that goes across a building.

browse
-the tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.
-to eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.;
-- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals.
-to feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
-to feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.
-to pasture; to feed; to nibble.

browsed
-of browse

browser
-an animal that browses.

browsewood
-shrubs and bushes upon which animals browse.

browsing
-of browse
-browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse.

browspot
-a rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.

bruang
-the malayan sun bear.

brucine
-a powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of strychnos, especially in the nux vomica. it is less powerful than strychnine. called also brucia and brucina.

brucite
-a white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate.
-the mineral chondrodite.

bruckeled
-wet and dirty; begrimed.

bruh
-the rhesus monkey. see rhesus.

bruin
-a bear;
-- so called in popular tales and fables.

bruise
-to injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.
-to break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
-to fight with the fists; to box.
-an injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.

bruised
-of bruise

bruiser
-one who, or that which, bruises.
-a boxer; a pugilist.
-a concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.

bruisewort
-a plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.

bruising
-of bruise

bruit
-report; rumor; fame.
-an abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.
-to report; to noise abroad.

bruited
-of bruit

bruiting
-of bruit

brumaire
-the second month of the calendar adopted by the first french republic. it began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. see vendemiaire.

brumal
-of or pertaining to winter.

brume
-mist; fog; vapors.

brummagem
-counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham.

brumous
-foggy; misty.

brun
-same as brun, a brook.

brunette
-a girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.
-having a dark tint.

brunion
-a nectarine.

brunonian
-pertaining to, or invented by, brown;
-- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by john brown, of scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.

brunswick black
-see japan black.

brunswick green
-an oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.

brunt
-the heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
-the force of a blow; shock; collision.

brush
-an instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.
-the bushy tail of a fox.
-a tuft of hair on the mandibles.
-branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.
-a thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.
-a bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.
-the act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.
-a skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.
-a short contest, or trial, of speed.
-to apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.
-to touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.
-to remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind;
-- commonly with off.
-to move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.

brush turkey
-a large, edible, gregarious bird of australia (talegalla lathami) of the family megapodidae. also applied to several allied species of new guinea.

brush wheel
-a wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference.
-a circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing.

brushed
-of brush

brusher
-one who, or that which, brushes.

brushiness
-the quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess.

brushing
-of brush
-constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.
-brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.

brushite
-a white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.

brushwood
-brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
-small branches of trees cut off.

brushy
-resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

brusk
-same as brusque.

brusque
-rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.

brusqueness
-quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness.

brussels
-a city of belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.

brusten
-of breste

brustle
-to crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment.
-to make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.
-a bristle.

brustled
-of brustle

brustling
-of brustle

brut
-to browse.
-see birt.

bruta
-see edentata.

brutal
-of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.
-like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners.

brutalism
-brutish quality; brutality.

brutalities
-of brutality

brutality
-the quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.
-an inhuman act.

brutalization
-the act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

brutalize
-to make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
-to become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.

brutalized
-of brutalize

brutalizing
-of brutalize

brutally
-in a brutal manner; cruelly.

brute
-not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
-not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
-of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. hence: brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
-having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
-rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
-an animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
-a brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.
-to report; to bruit.

brutely
-in a rude or violent manner.

bruteness
-brutality.
-insensibility.

brutified
-of brutify

brutify
-to make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize.

brutifying
-of brutify

bruting
-browsing.

brutish
-pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.

brutism
-the nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.

bryological
-relating to bryology; as, bryological studies.

bryologist
-one versed in bryology.

bryology
-that part of botany which relates to mosses.

bryonin
-a bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (bryonia alba and b. dioica). it is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic.

bryony
-the common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus bryonia. the root of b. alba (rough or white bryony) and of b. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.

bryophyta
-see cryptogamia.

bryozoa
-a class of molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies;
-- called also polyzoa.

bryozoan
-of or pertaining to the bryozoa.
-one of the bryozoa.

bryozoum
-an individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. the zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (avicularia, ooecia, etc.).

breakfasted
-of breakfast

broke
-of break