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Bound

BOUND, noun

1. A limit; the line which comprehends the whole of any given object or space. It differs from boundary. See the latter. bound is applied to kingdoms, states, cities, towns, tracts of land, and to territorial jurisdiction.

2. A limit by which any excursion is restrained; the limit of indulgence or desire; as, the love of money knows no bounds.

3. A leap; a spring; a jump; a rebound.

4. In dancing, a spring from one foot to the other.

BOUND, verb transitive To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension, whether of natural or moral objects, as of land, or empire, or of passion, desire, indulgence. Hence, to restrain or confine; as, to bound our wishes. To bound in is hardly legitimate.

1. To make to bound

BOUND, verb intransitive To leap; to jump; to spring; to move forward by leaps.

Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds.

1. To rebound--but the sense is the same.

BOUND, preterit tense and participle passive of bind. As a participle, made fast by a band, or by chains or fetters; obliged by moral ties; confined; restrained.

1. As a participle or perhaps more properly an adj., destined; tending; going, or intending to go; with to or for; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz.

The application of this word, in this use, is taken from the orders given for the government of the voyage, implying obligation, or from tending, stretching. So destined implies being bound

BOUND is used in composition, as in ice-bound, wind-bound, when a ship is confined or prevented from sailing by ice or by contrary winds.

Bound-Bailiff

BOUND-BAILIFF, noun An officer appointed by a sheriff to execute process; so denominated from the bond given for the faithful discharge of his trust.

Boundary

BOUND'ARY, noun A limit; a bound. This word is thus used as synonymous with bound. But the real sense is, a visible mark designating a limit. Bound is the limit itself or furthest point of extension, and may be an imaginary line; but boundary is the thing which ascertains the limit; terminus, not finis. Thus by a statute of Connecticut, it is enacted that the inhabitants of every town shall procure its bounds to be set out by such marks and boundaries as may be a plain direction for the future; which marks and boundaries shall be a great heap of stones or a ditch of six feet long, etc. This distinction is observed also in the statute of Massachusetts. But the two words are, in ordinary use, confounded.

Bounded

BOUND'ED, participle passive Limited; confined; restrained.

Bounden

BOUND'EN, participle passive of bind. [See Bind, and participle passive Bound.]

Bounder

BOUND'ER, noun One that limits; a boundary.

Bounding

BOUND'ING, ppr Limiting; confining; restraining; leaping; springing; rebounding; advancing with leaps.

Bounding-Stone

BOUND'ING-STONE

BOUND'-STONE, noun A stone to play with.

Boundless

BOUND'LESS, adjective Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; as boundless space; boundless power.

Boundlessness

BOUND'LESSNESS, noun The quality of being without limits.

Bounteous

BOUN'TEOUS, adjective [See Bounty.] Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generous; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as bounteous nature. It is used chiefly in poetry for bountiful.

Bounteously

BOUN'TEOUSLY, adverb Liberally; generously; largely; freely.

Bounteousness

BOUN'TEOUSNESS, noun Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; munificence; kindness.

Bountiful

BOUN'TIFUL, adjective [bounty and full.] Free to give; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors; munificent; generous.

God, the bountiful author of our being.

It is followed by of before the thing given, and to before the person receiving.

Bountifully

BOUN'TIFULLY, adverb Liberally; largely; in a bountiful manner.

Bountifulness

BOUN'TIFULNESS, noun The quality of being bountiful; liberality in the bestowment of gifts and favors.

Bountihead

BOUN'TIHEAD, noun Goodness.

Bountihede

BOUN'TIHEDE

BOUN'TY, noun [Latin bonitas, from bonus, good.]

1. Liberality in bestowing gifts and favors; generosity; munificence. The word includes the gift or favor and the kindness of disposition with which it is bestowed; or a favor bestowed with benevolent disposition. This distinguishes it from a mere gift. It is also observed by Johnson, that it differs from charity, as a present from an alms, in not being bestowed upon persons absolutely necessitous. This is often the case; but bounty includes charity, as the genus comprehends the species; charity however does not necessarily include bounty, for charity or an alms may be given with reluctance.

The word may be used also for a free gift, 2 Bor.4.5' or a disposition to give, without the gift; goodness in general.

2. A premium offered or given, to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry, manufactures or commerce.

Bounty

BOUN'TY, n. [L.bonitas, from bonus, good.] 1. Liberality in bestowing gifts and favors; generosity; munificence. The word includes the gift or favor and the kindness of disposition with which it is bestowed; or a favor bestowed with benevolent disposition. This distinguishes it from a mere gift. It is also observed by Johnson, that it differs from charity, as a present from an alms, in not being bestowed upon persons absolutely necessitous. This is often the case; but bounty includes charity, as the genus comprehends the species; charity however does not necessarily include bounty, for charity or an alms may be given with reluctance. The word may be used also for a free gift, 2 Bor.4.5' or a disposition to give, without the gift; goodness in general. 2. A premium offered or given, to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry, manufactures or commerce.

Bouquet

BOUQUET, noun booka'y. A nosegay; a bunch of flowers.

Bour

BOUR,

BOURD, noun A just.

Bourd

BOURD, n. A just.

Bourder

BOURD'ER, noun A jester.

Bourgeois

BOURGEOIS', noun burjois'. A small kind of printing types, in size between long primer and brevier. The type on which the main body of this work is printed.

Bourgeon

BOUR'GEON, verb intransitive bur'jun. To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth as a branch.

Bourn

BOURN, rather BORNE, noun

1. A bound; a limit.

That undiscovered country, from whose bourn

No traveller returns.-------

2. A brook; a torrent; a rivulet. [In this sense obsolete; but retained in many names of towns, seated on the banks of streams. In Scotland, it is still used in the sense of a brook, but they write it burn.]

Bournonite

BOURNONITE, noun Antimonial sulphuret of lead.

BOUSE

Bouse

BOUSE, verb intransitive booz. To drink hard; to guzzle. [Vulgar.]

Bousy

BOUS'Y, adjective booz'y. Drunken; intoxicated. [Vulgar.]

Bout

BOUT, noun A turn; as much of an action as is performed at one time; a single part of an action carried on at successive intervals; essay; attempt.

BOUT, noun [Latin bibo.] We use this word tautologically in the phrase, a drinking-bout; or the word is the same as the preceding.

Boutade

BOUTA'DE, noun [Eng.put.] Properly, a start; hence, a whim. [Not English.]

Boutefeu

BOUTEFEU, noun An incendiary; a make-bate. [Not English.]

Boutisale

BOUTISALE, noun A cheap sale; or according to others, a sale by a lighted match, during the burning of which a man may bid. [Not used.]

Bovate

BO'VATE, noun [In Law Latin bovata, from bos, bovis, an ox.]

An ox-gate, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; Cowell says 28 acres.

Bovey-Coal

BO'VEY-COAL, noun Brown lignite, an inflammable fossil, resembling, in many of its properties, bituminous wood. Its structure is a little slaty; its cross fracture, even or conchoidal, with a resinous luster, somewhat shining. It is brittle, burns with a weak flame, and exhales an odor, which is generally disagreeable.

Bovine

BO'VINE, adjective [Los Latin bovinus, from bos, bovis, an ox.]

Pertaining to oxen and cows, or the quadrupeds of the genus bos.

This animal is the strongest and fiercest of the bovine genus.

The ox-born souls mean nothing more than the eight living souls, who issued from their allegorical mother, the bovine ark.

Bow

BOW, verb transitive

1. To bend; to inflect; as, to bow vines.

2. To bend the body in token of respect or civility; as, to bow the head.

3. To bend or incline towards, in condescension.

BOW down thine ear to the poor. Eccles.

4. To depress; to crush; to subdue.

His heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave.

He bows the nations to his will.

BOW, verb intransitive To bend; to curve; to be inflected; to bend, in token of reverence, respect or civility; often with down.

This is the idol to which the world bows.

1. To stoop; to fall upon the knees.

The people bowed upon their knees.

2. To sink under pressure.

They stoop; they bow down together. Isaiah.

BOW, noun An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission.

BOW, noun [See bow to bend.] An instrument of war, and hunting, made of wood, or other elastic matter, with a string fastened to each end. The bow being bent by drawing the string, and suddenly returning to its natural state by its elastic force, throws an arrow to a great distance, and with force sufficient to kill an animal. It is of two kinds, the long-bow, and the cross-bow, arbalest or arbalest. The use of the bow is called archery.

1. Any thing bent, or in form of a curve; the rainbow; the doubling of a string in a knot; the part of a yoke which embraces the neck; etc.

2. A small machine, formed with a stick and hairs, which being drawn over the strings of an instrument of music, causes it to sound.

3. A beam of wood or brass, with three long screws that direct a lathe of wood or steel to any arch; used in forming drafts of ships, and projections of the sphere, or wherever it is necessary to draw large arches.

4. An instrument for taking the sun's altitude at sea, consisting of a large arch of ninety degrees graduated, a shank or staff, a side-vane, a sight-vane, and a horizon-vane; now disused.

5. An instrument in use among smiths for turning a drill; with turners, for turning wood; with hatters, for breaking fur and wool.

6. Bows of a saddle, are the two pieces of wood laid archwise to receive the upper part of a horse's back, to give the saddle its due form, and to keep it tight.

7. bow of a ship, is the rounding part of her side forward, beginning where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close, at the stem or prow. A narrow bow is called a lean bow; a broad one, a bold or bluff bow

On the bow in navigation, is an arch of the horizon, not exceeding 45 degrees, comprehended between some distant object, and that point of the compass which is right ahead.

Bow-Bearer

BOW-BEARER, noun [bos and bear.] An under officer of the forest, whose duty is to inform of trespasses.

Bow-Bent

BOW-BENT, adjective [bow and bend.] Crooked.

Bow-Dye

BOW-DYE, noun A kind of scarlet color, superior to madder, but inferior to the true scarlet grain for fixedness, and duration; first used at Bow, near London.

BOW'-GRACE, noun In sea language, a frame or composition of junk, laid out at the sides, stem, or bows of ships to secure them from injury by ice.

Bow-Hand

BOW-HAND, noun [bow and hand.] The hand that draws a bow.

Bow-Legged

BOW-LEGGED, adjective [bow and leg.] Having crooked legs.

Bow-Shot

BOW-SHOT, noun [bow and shot.] The space which an arrow may pass when shot from a bow. Genesis 21:16.

Bow-String

BOW-STRING, noun [bow and string.] The string of a bow.

Bow-Window

BOW-WINDOW. [See Bay-window.]

Bowable

BOW'ABLE, adjective Of a flexible disposition. [Not in use.]

Bowed

BOW'ED, participle passive Bent; crushed; subdued.

BOWED, participle passive Bent; like a bow.

Bowel

BOW'EL, verb transitive To take out the bowels; to eviscerate; to penetrate the bowels.

Bowelless

BOW'ELLESS, adjective Without tenderness of pity.

Bowels

BOW'ELS, noun plural

1. The intestines of an animal; the entrails, especially of man. The heart. 2 Corinthians 6:12.

2. The interior part of any thing; as the bowels of the earth.

3. The seat of pity or kindness; hence, tenderness, compassion, a scriptural sense.

Bowel, in the singular, is sometimes used for gut.

Bower

BOW'ER, noun [from bow.] An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. There are generally two bowers, called first and second, great and little, or best and small.

BOW'ER, noun

1. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees bent and twined together. It differs from arbor in that it may be round or square, whereas an arbor is long and arched.

2. A bed-chamber; any room in a house except the hall.

3. A country seat; a cottage.

4. A shady recess; a plantation for shade.

BOW'ER, verb transitive To embower to inclose.

BOW'ER, verb intransitive To lodge.

Bowers

BOW'ERS

BOW'ERY, adjective Covering; shading as a bower; also, containing bowers

A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.

Bowery

BOW'ERY, a. Covering; shading as a bower; also, containing bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.

Bowess

BOW'ESS, BOW'ET, noun A young hawk, when it begins to get out of the nest; a term in falconry.

Bowet

BOW'ESS, BOW'ET, noun A young hawk, when it begins to get out of the nest; a term in falconry.

Bowge

BOWGE, verb intransitive To swell out. [See Bouge.]

BOWGE, verb transitive To perforate; as, to bowge a ship.

[I do not find this word in any other author.]

Bowing

BOW'ING, participle present tense Bending; stooping; making a bow.

Bowingly

BOW'INGLY, adverb In a bending manner.

Bowl

BOWL, noun [In Latin, vola is the hollow of the hand.]

1. A concave vessel to hold liquors, rather wide than deep, and thus distinguished from a cup, which is rather deep than wide.

2. The hollow part of any thing; as the bowl of a spoon.

3. A basin; a fountain.

BOWL, noun A ball of wood used for play on a level plat of ground.

BOWL, verb intransitive To play with bowls, or at bowling.

BOWL, verb transitive To roll as a bowl; also, to pelt with any thing rolled.

Bowlder

BOWLDER, noun [from bowl.] A small stone of a roundish form, and of no determinate size, found on the sea shore and on the banks or in the channels of rivers, etc., worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a pebble.

The term bowlder is now used in Geology for rounded masses of any rock, found out of place, and apparently transported from their original bed by water. Bowlders of Granite, often of great size, are very common on the surface of the most recent formations.

Bowlder-Stone

BOWLDER-STONE. [See Bowlder.]

Bowlder-Wall

BOWLDER-WALL, noun A wall constructed of pebbles or bowlders of flint or other siliceous stones, which have been rounded by the action of water.

Bowler

BOWLER, noun One who plays at bowls.

Bowline

BOWLINE, noun A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate parts, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is close hauled.bridles, are the ropes by which the bowline is fastened to the leech of the sail.

Bowling

BOWLING, participle present tense Playing at bowls.

Bowling-Green

BOWLING-GREEN, noun [bowl and green.] A level piece of ground kept smooth for bowling.

1. In gardening, a parterre in a grove, laid with fine turf, with compartments of divers figures, with dwarf trees and other decorations. It may be used for bowling; but the French and Italians have such greens for ornament.

Bowman

BOWMAN, noun [bow and man.] A man who uses a bow; an archer. Jeremiah 4:29.

BOW'MAN, noun The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat.

Bownet

BOWNET, noun [bow and net.] An engine for catching lobsters and crawfish, called also bow-wheel. It is made of two round wicker baskets, pointed at the end, one of which is thrust into the other, and at the mouth is a little rim bent inwards.

BOW'-PIECE, noun [bow and piece.] A piece of ordnance carried at the bow of a ship.

Bowrs

BOW'RS , noun [from bos.] Muscles that bend the joints.

Bowse

BOWSE, verb intransitive In seaman's language, to pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, to pull all together.

Bowsprit

BOWSPRIT, noun [bow and sprit.] A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward. [This is probably the true orthography.]

Bowssen

BOWSS'EN, verb transitive To drink; to drench. [Not used.]

Bowyer

BOWYER, noun [from bow, a corruption of bower, like sawyer.]

An archer; one who uses a bow; one who makes bows. [Little used.]

Box

BOX, noun [Lat. buxus, the tree, and pyxis, a box; Gr. a box and the tree.]

A coffer or chest, either of wood or metal. In general, the word box is used for a case of rough boards, or more slightly made than a chest, and used for the conveyance of goods. But the name is applied to cases of any size and of any materials; as a wooden box a tin box an iron box a strong box

1. The quantity that a box contains; as a box of quicksilver; a box or rings. In some cases, the quantity called a box is fixed by custom; in others, it is uncertain, as a box of tea or sugar.

2. A certain seat in a play-house, or in any public room.

3. The case which contains the mariner's compass.

4. A money chest.

5. A tree or shrub, constituting the genus buxus, used for bordering flower-beds. The African box is the myrsine.

6. A blow on the head with the hand, or on the ear with the open hand.

7. A cylindrical hollow iron used in wheels, in which the axle-tree runs. Also, a hollow tube in a pump, closed with a valve.

BOX, verb intransitive To fight with the fist; to combat with the hand or fist.

BOX, verb transitive To inclose in a box; also, to furnish with boxes, as a wheel or block.

1. To strike with the hand or fist, especially the ear or side of the head.

2. To rehearse the several points of the compass in their proper order.

3. To make a hole or cut in a tree, to procure the sap; as, to box a maple.

4. To sail round.

Boxed

BOX'ED, participle passive Inclosed in a box; struck on the head with the fist or hand; furnished with a box or hollow iron, as a wheel.

Boxen

BOX'EN, adjective Made of box-wood; resembling box.

Boxer

BOX'ER, noun One who fights with his fist.

BOX'-HAUL, verb transitive To veer a ship in a particular manner, when it is impracticable to tack.

Boxing

BOX'ING, participle present tense Inclosing in a box; striking with the fist; furnishing with a box.

BOX'ING, noun The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist.

BOX'-THORN, noun [box and thorn.] A plant, the Lycium, or a species of it.

Boy

BOY, noun [Latin puer for puger, for we see by puella, that r is not radical. So the Gr. probably is contracted, for the derivative verb, forms.]

A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; but in general, applied to males under ten or twelve years of age; a lad. Sometimes it is used in contempt for a young man, indicating immaturity, want of vigor or judgment.

BOY, verb transitive To treat as a boy

Rather, to act as a boy; to imitate a boy in action. The passage in Shakespeare, in which this word is found, is supposed to allude to the practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.

I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness.

Boyar

BOY'AR, noun A Russian nobleman. [See Boiar.]

Boyau

BOY'AU, noun boy'o. In fortification, a ditch covered with a parapet, serving as a communication between two trenches.

BOY'-BLIND, adjective Blind as a boy; undiscerning.

Boyer

BOY'ER, noun A Flemish sloop, with a castle at each end.

Boyhood

BOY'HOOD, adjective [boy and hood.] The state of a boy, or of immature age.

Boyish

BOY'ISH, adjective Belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; resembling a boy in manners or opinions; puerile.

Boyishly

BOY'ISHLY, adverb Childishly; in a trifling manner.

Boyishness

BOY'ISHNESS, noun Childishness; the manners or behavior of a boy.

Boyism

BOY'ISM, noun Childishness; puerility.

1. The state of a boy.

Boys-Play

BOYS-PLAY, noun Childish amusement; any thing trifling.

Boyuna

BOYU'NA, noun A large serpent of America, black and slender, having an intolerable smell. Also, a harmless reptile.

Bp

BP. An abbreviation of Bishop.

Brabantine

BRABANT'INE, adjective Pertaining to Brabant, a province of the Netherlands, of which Brussels is the capital.

Brabble

BRAB'BLE, noun A broil; a clamorous contest; a wrangle.

BRAB'BLE, verb intransitive To clamor; to contest noisily.

Brabbler

BRAB'BLER, noun A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.

Brabbling

BRAB'BLING, participle present tense Clamoring; wrangling.

Brace

BRACE, noun [Latin brachium; Gr. the arm.]

1. In architecture, a piece of timber framed in with bevel joints, to keep the building from swerving either way. It extends like an arm from the post or main timber.

2. That which holds any thing tight; a cincture or bandage. The braces of a drum are not bands.

3. A pair; a couple; as a brace of ducks. It is used of persons only in contempt, or in the style of drollery.

4. In music, a double curve at the beginning of stave.

5. A thick strap, which supports a carriage on wheels.

6. A crooked line in printing, connecting two or more words or lines; thus boll, bowl. It is used to connect triplets in poetry.

7. In marine language, a rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, to square or traverse the yard. The name is given also to pieces of iron which are used as supports; such as of the poop lanterns, etc.

8. brace or brasse, is a foreign measure answering to our fathom.

9. Harness; warlike preparation; as we say, girded for battle.

10. Tension; tightness.

11. Braces, plural , suspenders, the straps that sustain pantaloons, etc.

12. The braces of a drum, are the cords on the sides of it, for tightening the heads and snares.

BRACE, verb transitive To draw tight; to tighten; to bind or tie close; to make tight and firm.

1. To make tense; to strain up; as, to brace a drum.

2. To furnish with braces; as, to brace a building.

3. To strengthen; to increase tension; as, to brace the nerves.

4. In marine language, to bring the yards to either side.

To brace about is to turn the yards round for the contrary tack.

To brace sharp is to cause the yards to have the smallest possible angle with the keel.

To brace to is to check or ease off the leg braces, and round-in the weather ones, to assist in tacking.

Braced

BRA'CED, participle passive Furnished with braces; drawn close and tight; made tense.

Bracelet

BRA'CELET, noun

1. An ornament for the wrist, worn by ladies. This ornament seems anciently to have been worn by men as well as women.

2. A piece of defensive armor for the arm.

Bracer

BRA'CER, noun That which braces, binds or makes firm; a band or bandage; also, armor for the arm.

1. An astringent medicine, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.

Brach

BRACH, noun A bitch of the hound kind.

Brachial

BRACH'IAL, adjective [Latin brachium, form the Celtic braic, brac, the arm.]

Belonging to the arm; as the brachial artery.

Brachiate

BRACH'IATE, adjective [See Brachial.] In botany, having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next.

Brachman

BRACH'MAN

BRACHYG'RAPHER, noun [See the next word.] A writer in short hand.

Brachygrapher

BRACHYG'RAPHER, n. [See the next word.] A writer in short hand.

Brachygraphy

BRACHYG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. short, and a writing.] The art or practice of writing in shorthand; stenography.

Brachylogy

BRACHYL'OGY, noun [Gr. short, and expression.] In rhetoric, the expressing of any thing in the most concise manner.

Brack

BRACK, noun An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a breach; a broken part.

Bracken

BRACK'EN, noun Fern. [See Brake.]

Bracket

BRACK'ET, [Heb. to bend the knee; hence it signifies the knee.]

1. Among workers in timber, an angular wooden stay, in form of the knee bent, to support shelves, scaffolds and the like.

2. The cheek of a mortar carriage, made of strong plank.

3. In printing, hooks; thus, [].

Brackish

BRACK'ISH, adjective [Gr. to water.] Salt, or salt in a moderate degree; it is applied to any water partially saturated with salt.

Brackishness

BRACK'ISHNESS, noun The quality of being brackish; saltness in a small degree.

Bracky

BRACK'Y, adjective Brackish. [Not used.]

Bracte

BRACTE, noun [Latin Ainswroth writes, bractea or brattea.]

In botany, a floral leaf, one of the seven fulcrums or props of plants. It differs from other leaves in shape and color, and is generally situated on the peduncle, so near the corol, as easily to be mistaken for the calyx.

In the Asiatic Researches, 4.354, this word is anglicized, and written bract.

Bractea

BRAC'TEA

BRAC'TEATE, adjective [from bractea ] Furnished with bractes.

Bracteate

BRAC'TEATE, a. [from bractea.] Furnished with bractes.

Bracted

BRAC'TED, adjective Furnished with bractes.

Bracteolate

BRAC'TEOLATE, adjective Furnished with bracteoles.

Bracteole

BRAC'TEOLE, noun A little bract.

Brad

BRAD, in Sax., is broad, and occurs in names; as in Bradford, broadford.

BRAD, noun A particular kind of nail, used in floors and other work, where it is deemed proper to drive nails entirely into the wood. For this purpose, it is made without a broad head or shoulder over the shank.

Bradypus

BRAD'YPUS, noun The sloth, which see.

Brag

BRAG, verb intransitive [Eng. to brag ]

To boast; to display one's actions, merits or advantages ostentatiously; to tell boastful stories; followed by of; as, to brag of a good horse, or of a feat.

To brag on is vulgar; indeed the word itself is become low, and is not to be used in elegant composition.

BRAG, noun A boast, or boasting; ostentatious verbal display of one's deeds, or advantages; the thing boasted.

Spenser has used this word as an adverb for proudly.

BRAG, noun A game at cards.

Braggadocio

BRAGGADO'CIO, noun A puffing, boasting fellow.

Braggardism

BRAG'GARDISM, noun Boastfulness; vain ostentation.

Braggart

BRAG'GART, noun [brag and art, ard, kind.] A boaster; a vain fellow.

BRAG'GART, adjective Boastful; vainly ostentatious.

Bragger

BRAG'GER, noun One who brags; a boaster.

Bragget

BRAG'GET, noun A liquor made by fermenting the wort of ale and mead.

Bragging

BRAG'GING, participle present tense Boasting.

Braggingly

BRAG'GINGLY, adverb Boastingly.

Bragless

BRAG'LESS, adjective Without bragging, or ostentation. [Unusual.]

Bragly

BRAG'LY, adverb Finely; so as it may be bragged of. [Not used.]

Brahma

BRAH'MA, noun [Latin primus.] The chief deity of the Indian nations, considered as the creator of all things.

Brahmanic

BRAHMAN'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Brachmans or Bramins of India.

Brahmin

BRAH'MIN, noun [See Brachman.]

A priest among the Hindoos and other nations of India. There are several orders of Bramins, many of whom are very corrupt in their morals; others live sequestered from the world devoted to superstition and indolence. They are the only persons who understand the Sanscrit, or ancient language of the country, in which their sacred books are written; and to them are European nations indebted for their knowledge of the language. They worship Brama, the supposed creator of the world, but have many subordinate deities.

Braid

BRAID, verb transitive [Old Eng. brede.]

1. To weave or infold three or more strands to form one.

2. To reproach. [See Upbraid.]

BRAID, noun A string, cord or other texture, formed by weaving together different strands.

1. A start.

BRAID, adjective Deceitful.

Chaucer used the Saxon word brede, to deceive. This is the figurative sense of braid

Brail

BRAIL, noun

1. A piece of leather to bind up a hawk's wing.

2. In navigation, brails are ropes passing through pulleys, on the mizen mast and yard, and fastened to the aftmost leech of the sail in different places, to truss it up close. Also, all ropes employed to haul up the bottoms, lower corners and skirts of the other great sails, for the more ready furling of them.

BRAIL, verb transitive To brail up, is to haul up into the brails, or to truss up with the brails.

Brain

BRAIN, noun [Gr. properly the fore part of the head or sinciput, also the brain ]

1. That soft whitish mass, or viscus, inclosed in the cranium or skull, in which the nerves and spinal marrow terminate, and which is supposed to be the seat of the soul or intelligent principle in man. It is divided above into a right and left hemisphere, and below into six lobes. It is composed of a cortical substance, which is external, and a medullary, which is internal. From the brain proceed nine pair of nerves, which are distributed principally to the head and neck.

2. The understanding.

3. The affections; fancy; imagination. [Unusual.]

BRAIN, verb transitive To dash out the brains; to kill by beating out the brains.

1. To conceive; to understand. [Not used.]

Brainish

BRA'INISH, adjective Hot-headed; furious; as Latin cerebrosus.

Brainless

BRA'INLESS, adjective Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.

Brainpan

BRA'INPAN, noun [brain and pan.] The skull which incloses the brain.

Brainsick

BRA'INSICK, adjective [brain and sick.] Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.

Brainsickly

BRA'INSICKLY, adverb Weakly; with a disordered understanding.

Brainsickness

BRA'INSICKNESS, noun Disorder of the understanding; giddiness; indiscretion.

Brait

BRAIT, noun Among jewelers, a rough diamond.

Brake

BRAKE, participle passive of break. [See Break.]

BRAKE, noun [Latin erica; Gr. to break.]

1. brake is a name given to fern, or rather to the female fern, a species of cryptogamian plants, of the genus Pteris, whose fructification is in lines under the margin of the leaf or frond.

2. A place overgrown with brake

3. A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles.

4. In the U. States, a thicket of canes, as a cane-brake; but I believe used only in composition.

BRAKE, noun [See Break.] An instrument to break flax or hemp.

1. The handle or lever by which a pump is worked; that is, brac, brachium, an arm.

2. A baker's kneading trough.

3. A sharp bit, or snaffle.

4. A machine for confining refractory horses, while the smith is shoeing them.

5. That part of the carriage of a movable battery or engine which enables it to turn.

6. A large heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; called also a drag.

Braky

BRA'KY, adjective Full of brakes; abounding with brambles or shrubs; rough; thorny.

Brama

BRAM'A, noun The bream, a fish. [See Bream.]

BRAM'A

Bramble

BRAM'BLE, noun The raspberry bush or blackberry bush; a general name of the genus rubus, of which there are several species. They are armed with prickles; hence in common language, any rough, prickly shrub.

Bramble-Net

BRAM'BLE-NET, noun [bramble and net.] A hallier, or a net to catch birds.

Bramblebush

BRAM'BLEBUSH, noun [bramble and bush.] The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.

Brambled

BRAM'BLED, adjective Overgrown with brambles.

Brambling

BRAM'BLING

BRAM'BLE, noun A bird, a species of fringilla, the mountain finch.

BRAM'IN

Bramin

BRAM'IN , noun An ancient philosopher of India. The brachmans are a branch of the ancient gymnosophists, and remarkable for the severity of their lives and manners.

Braminee

BRAMINEE' noun The wife of a Bramin.

Braminess

BRAM'INESS

BRAMIN'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the Bramins, or their doctrines and worship; as the Braminical system.

Braminical

BRAMIN'ICAL, a. Pertaining to the Bramins, or their doctrines and worship; as the Braminical system.

Braminism

BRAM'INISM, noun The religion, or system of doctrines of the Bramins.

Bran

BRAN, noun The outer coat of wheat, rye or other farinaceous grain, separated from the flour by grinding.

Bran-New

BRAN-NEW,

a. Properly brand-new. Quite new, [fire new]; bright or shining.

Brancard

BRANC'ARD, noun A horse litter. [Not in use.]

Branch

BR'ANCH, noun

1. The shoot of a tree or other plant; a limb; a bough shooting from the stem, or from another branch or bough. Johnson restricts the word to a shoot from a main bough; but the definition warranted neither by etymology nor usage.

A division of a main stem, supporting the leaves and fructification.

An arm of a tree sprouting from the stem.

2. Any arm or extended part shooting or extended from the main body of a thing; as the branch of a candlestick or of an artery. Hence, from similitude, a smaller stream running into a large one, or proceeding from it. Also, the shoot of a stag's horn; an antler.

3. Any member or part of a body, or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; as, charity is a branch of christian duty.

4. Any individual of a family descending in a collateral line; any descendant from a common parent or stock.

5. Branches of a bridle, two pieces of bent iron which bear the bit, the cross chains and the curb.

6. In architecture, branches of ogives are the arches of Gothic vaults, traversing from one angle to another diagonally, and forming a cross between the other arches, which make the sides of the square, of which these arches are diagonals.

7. A warrant or commission given to a pilot.

8. A chandelier.

BR'ANCH, verb intransitive To shoot or spread in branches; to ramify, as a plant, or as horns.

1. To divide into separate parts, or subdivisions, as a mountain, a stream, or a moral subject; to ramify.

2. To speak diffusively; to make many distinctions or divisions in a discourse.

3. To have horns shooting out.

BR'ANCH, verb transitive To divide as into branches; to make subordinate divisions.

1. To adorn with needle work, representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

Branch-Leaf

BR'ANCH-LEAF, noun A leaf growing on a branch.

Branch-Peduncle

BR'ANCH-PEDUNCLE, noun A peduncle springing from a branch.

Branch-Pilot

BR'ANCH-PILOT, noun A pilot who has a branch or public commission.

Branched

BR'ANCHED, participle passive Divided or spread into branches; separated into subordinate parts; adorned with branches; furnished with branches.

Brancher

BR'ANCHER, noun One that shoots forth branches.

1. A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.

Branchery

BR'ANCHERY, noun The ramifications or ramified vessels dispersed through the pulpy part of fruit.

Branchiness

BR'ANCHINESS, noun Fullness of branches.

Branching

BR'ANCHING, participle present tense Shooting in branches; dividing into several subordinate parts.

BR'ANCHING, adjective Furnished with branches; shooting out branches.

Branchiostegous

BRANCHIOS'TEGOUS, adjective [Gr. gills, and a covering.]

Having gill-covers, or covered gills, as a branchiostegous fish; covering the gills, as the branchiostegous membrane. The branchiostegi are an order of fish in the Linnean system, the rays of whose fins are bony, but whose gill-covers are destitute of bony rays.

Branchless

BR'ANCHLESS, adjective Destitute of branches, or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.

Branchlet

BR'ANCHLET, noun A little branch; a twig; the subdivision of a branch.

Branchy

BR'ANCHY, adjective Full of branches; having wide spreading branches.

Brand

BRAND, noun

1. A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

2. A sword, either from brandishing, or from its glittering brightness; now obsolete, unless in poetry.

3. A thunder-bolt.

4. A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a criminal, or upon a cask; a stigma; any note of infamy.

BRAND, verb transitive To burn or impress a mark with a hot iron; as, to brand a criminal, by way of punishment; or to brand a cask or any thing else, for the purpose of fixing a mark upon it.

1. To fix a mark or character of infamy, in allusion to the branding of criminals; to stigmatize as infamous; as, to brand a vice with infamy.

Brand-Goose

BRAND'-GOOSE, noun A species of Anas, or the goose kind; usually called in America brant or brent.

Brand-New

BRAND'-NEW, adjective Quite new; bright as a brand of fire.

Branded

BRAND'ED, participle passive Marked with a hot iron; stigmatized.

Branding

BRAND'ING, participle present tense Impressing a mark with a hot iron; fixing a stigma or mark of reproach.

BRAND'-IRON

Branding-Iron

BRAND'ING-IRON, noun An iron to brand with.

Brandish

BRAND'ISH, verb transitive

1. To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise, and move in various directions; to shake or flourish; as, to brandish a sword or a cane. It often indicates threatening.

2. To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.

Brandished

BRAND'ISHED, participle passive Raised and waved in the air with a flourish.

Brandisher

BRAND'ISHER, noun One who brandishes.

Brandishing

BRAND'ISHING, participle present tense Raising and waving in the air; flourishing.

Brandling

BRAND'LING, noun A kind of worm.

Brandy

BRAN'DY, noun An ardent spirit distilled from wine. The same name is now given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the U. States particularly to that which is distilled from cyder and peaches.

Brandy-Wine

BRAN'DY-WINE, noun Brandy.

Brangle

BRAN'GLE, noun [Latin frendeo.] A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute.

BRAN'GLE, verb intransitive To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble.

Branglement

BRAN'GLEMENT, noun Wrangle; brangle.

Brangling

BRAN'GLING, noun A quarrel.

Brank

BRANK, noun

1. Buckwheat, a species of polygonum; a grain cultivated mostly for beasts and poultry; but in the U. States, the flour is much used for making breakfast cakes.

2. In some parts of England and Scotland, a scolding-bridle, an instrument for correcting scolding women. It consists of a headpiece, which incloses the head of the offender, and of a sharp iron which enters the mouth and restrains the tongue.

Brankursine

BRANK'URSINE, noun [brank and ursus, a bear.]

Bear's-breech, or acanthus, a genus of plants of several species. The leaves of the common sort are said to have furnished the model of the Corinthian capitals.

Branlin

BRAN'LIN, noun A species of fish of the salmon kind, in some places called the fingry, from five or six black lines or marks on each side resembling fingers. It is found in rapid streams.

Branny

BRAN'NY, adjective [from bran.] Having the appearance of bran; consisting of bran.

Bransle

BRAN'SLE, noun A brawl, or dance. [Not used.]

Brant

BRANT, noun A species of anas or the goose kind; called also brent and brand-goose, which see.

BRANT, , adjective Steep.

Brasen

BRA'SEN, adjective brazn. Made of brass. [See Brass and Brazen.]

Brasier

BRA'SIER, noun brazhur. An artificer who works in brass.

1. A pan for holding coals.

Brasil

BRASIL. [See Brazil.]

Brass

BR'ASS, noun

1. An alloy of copper and zink, of a yellow color; usually containing about one third of its weight of zink, but the proportions are variable. The best brass is made by cementation of calamine or the oxyd of zink with granulated copper.

2. Impudence; a brazen face.

Brass-Paved

BR'ASS-PAVED, adjective Hard as brass.

Brass-Visaged

BR'ASS-VISAGED, adjective Impudent.

Brasse

BR'ASSE, noun The pale spotted perch, with two long teeth on each side; the lucio-perca.

Brassica

BRAS'SICA, noun [Latin] Cabbage.

Brassiness

BR'ASSINESS, noun A quality of brass; the appearance of brass.

Brassy

BR'ASSY, adjective Pertaining to brass; partaking of brass; hard as brass; having the color of brass.

1. Impudent; impudently bold.

Brast

BRAST, adjective Burst. [Not in use.]

Brat

BRAT, noun A child, so called in contempt.

1. Offspring; progeny.

Braul

BRAUL, noun Indian cloth with blue and white striped, called turbants.

Bravado

BRAVA'DO, noun A boast or brag; an arrogant menace, intended to intimidate.

Brave

BRAVE, adjective

1. Courageous; bold; daring; intrepid; fearless of danger; as a brave warrior. It usually unites the sense of courage with generosity and dignity of mind; qualities often united.

The brave man will not deliberately do an injury to his fellow man.

2. Gallant; lofty; graceful; having a noble mien.

3. Magnificent; grand; as a brave place.

4. Excellent; noble; dignified. But in modern usage, it has nearly lost its application to things.

5. Gaudy; showy in dress.

BRAVE, noun A hector; a man daring beyond discretion or decency.

Hot braves like these may fight.

1. A boast; a challenge; a defiance.

BRAVE, verb transitive To defy; to challenge; to encounter with courage and fortitude, or without being moved; to set at defiance.

The ills of love I can brave

The rock that braves the tempest.

1. To carry a boasting appearance of; as, to brave that which they believe not.

Braved

BRA'VED, participle passive Defied; set at defiance; met without dismay, or being moved.

Bravely

BRA'VELY, adverb Courageously; gallantly; splendidly; in a brave manner; heroically. In Spenser, finely; gaudily.

Bravery

BRA'VERY, noun Courage; heroism; undaunted spirit; intrepidity; gallantry; fearlessness of danger; often united with generosity or dignity of mind which despises meanness and cruelty, and disdains to take advantage of a vanquished enemy.

The duelist, in proving his bravery shows that he thinks it suspected.

1. Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance.

The bravery of their tinkling ornaments. Isaiah 3:18.

2. Show; ostentation; fine dress.

3. Bravado; boast.

4. A showy person.

[In the last four senses, this word is nearly antiquated.]

Braving

BRA'VING, participle present tense Setting at defiance; challenging.

Bravo

BRA'VO, noun A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; an assassin or murderer.

Brawl

BRAWL, verb intransitive [Latin proelior.]

1. To quarrel noisily and indecently.

2. To speak loud and indecently.

3. To roar as water; to make a noise.

BRAWL, verb transitive To drive or beat away.

BRAWL, noun Noise; quarrel; scurrility; uproar.

1. Formerly, a kind of dance.

Brawler

BRAWL'ER, noun A noisy fellow; a wrangler.

Brawling

BRAWL'ING, noun The act of quarreling.

Brawlingly

BRAWL'INGLY, adverb In a quarrelsome manner.

Brawn

BRAWN, noun [Latin aprugnus, caro aprugna.]

1. The flesh of a boar, or the animal.

2. The fleshy, protuberant, muscular part of the body.

3. Bulk; muscular strength.

4. The arm, from its muscles or strength.

Brawned

BRAWN'ED, adjective Brawny; strong.

Brawner

BRAWN'ER, noun A boar killed for the table.