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Brigantine

BRIG'ANTINE, noun [Latin aphractum; Gr. a vessel without a deck, uncovered. It is usually derived from brigand.] [See Brig.]

Bright

BRIGHT, adjective brite. [Heb. to shine.]

1. Shining; lucid; luminous; splendid; as a bright sun or star; a bright metal.

2. Clear; transparent; as liquors.

3. Evident; clear; manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes.

4. Resplendent with charms; as a bright beauty; the brightest fair.

5. Illuminated with science; sparkling with wit; as the brightest of men.

6. Illustrious; glorious; as the brightest period of a kingdom.

7. In popular language, ingenious; possessing an active mind.

8. Promising good or success; as bright prospects.

9. Sparkling; animated; as bright eyes.

Bright-Burning

BRIGHT-BURNING, adjective Burning with a bright flame.

Bright-Eyed

BRIGHT-EYED, adjective Having bright eyes.

Bright-Haired

BRIGHT-HAIRED, adjective Having bright hair.

Bright-Harnessed

BRIGHT-HARNESSED, adjective Having glittering armor.

Bright-Shining

BRIGHT-SHINING, adjective Shining with splendor.

Brighten

BRIGHTEN, verb transitive britn. To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase luster.

1. To make luminous by light from without, or by dispelling gloom; as, to brighten sorrow or prospects.

2. To cheer; to make gay or cheerful.

Joy brightens his crest.

3. To make illustrious, or more distinguished; as, to brighten a character.

4. To make acute or witty.

BRIGHTEN, verb intransitive britn. To grow bright, or more bright; to clear up; as, the sky brightens.

1. To become less dark or gloomy; as, our prospects brighten

Brightly

BRIGHTLY, adverb britely. Splendidly; with luster.

Brightness

BRIGHTNESS, noun briteness. Splendor; luster; glitter.

1. Acuteness, applied to the faculties; sharpness of wit; as the brightness of a man's parts.

Brigose

BRIGO'SE, adjective [from brigue.] Contentious. [Not used.]

Brigue

BRIGUE, noun breeg. A cabal; intrigue; faction; contention. [Little used.]

BRIGUE, verb intransitive breeg. To canvass; to solicit. [Little used.]

Brilliancy

BRILL'IANCY, noun [See Brilliant.] Splendor; glitter; great brightness.

Brilliant

BRILL'IANT, adjective [Eng. beryl and pearl.]

1. Sparkling with luster; glittering; as a brilliant gem; a brilliant dress.

2. Splendid; shining; as a brilliant achievement.

Washington was more solicitous to avoid fatal mistakes, than to perform brilliant exploits.

BRILL'IANT, noun A diamond of the finest cut, formed into angles, so as to refract the light, by which it is rendered more glittering.

1. In the manege, a brisk, high-spirited horse, with a stately carriage.

Brilliantly

BRILL'IANTLY, adverb Splendidly.

Brilliantness

BRILL'IANTNESS, noun Brilliancy; splendor; glitter.

Brills

BRILLS, noun The hair on the eyelids of a horse.

Brim

BRIM, noun

1. The rim, lip or broadborder of any vessel or other thing; as the brim of a hat, or of a vessel.

2. The upper edge of a vessel, whether broad or not; as the brim of a cup or glass.

3. The top of any liquor; the edge or that next the border at the top.

The feet of the priests were dipped in the brim of the water. Joshua 3:15.

4. The edge or brink of a fountain; the verge.

BRIM, adjective Public; well known; celebrated. [Not in use.]

BRIM, verb transitive To fill to the brim upper edge, or top.

BRIM, verb intransitive To be full to the brim

Brimful

BRIM'FUL, adjective [brim and full.] Full to the top; completely full; as a glass brimful; a heart brimful of tears.

Brimfulness

BRIM'FULNESS, noun Fulness to the top. [Not used.]

Brimless

BRIM'LESS, adjective Having no brim.

Brimmer

BRIM'MER, noun A bowl full to the top.

Brimming

BRIM'MING, adjective Full to the top or brim; as a brimming pail.

Brimstone

BRIM'STONE, noun Sulphur; a hard, brittle, inflammable substance, of a lemon yellow color, which has no smell, unless heated, and which becomes negatively electric by heat and friction. It is found, in great quantities, and sometimes pure, in the neighborhood of volcanoes. It is an ingredient in a variety of minerals and ores. The sulphur of commerce is procured from its natural beds, or artificially extracted from pyrites.

Brimstony

BRIM'STONY, adjective Full of brimstone, or containing it; resembling brimstone; sulphurous.

Brinded

BRIND'ED, adjective Marked with spots; tabby; having different colors.

Brindle

BRIN'DLE, noun [from brind, the root of brinded.]

The state of being brinded; spottedness.

Brindled

BRIN'DLED, adjective spotted; variegated with spots of different colors.

Brine

BRINE, noun

1. Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt, like the water of the ocean. Artificial brine is used for the preservation of the flesh of animals, fish, vegetables, etc.

2. The ocean or sea.

3. Tears, so called from their saltiness.

Leach brine is brine which drops from corned salt in drying, which is preserved to be boiled again.

BRINE, verb transitive To steep in brine as corn to prevent smut; also, to mix salt with, as to brine hay.

Brine-Pan

BRI'NE-PAN, noun [brine and pan.] A pit of salt water, where, by the action of the sun, salt is formed by crystallization.

Brine-Pit

BRI'NE-PIT, noun [brine and pit.] A brine pan, or a salt spring from which water is taken to be boiled or evaporated for making salt.

Brine-Spring

BRI'NE-SPRING, noun [bring and spring.] A spring of salt water.

Bring

BRING, verb transitive

1. To fetch; to bear, convey or lead from a distant to a nearer place, or to a person; as, bring me a book from the shelf; bring me a morsel of bread. In this sense, it is opposed to carry, and it is applied to the person bearing or leading, in opposition to sending or transmitting by another.

2. To produce; to procure as a cause; to draw to.

Nothing brings a man more honor than to be invariably just.

3. To attract or draw along.

In distillation the water brings over with it another substance.

4. To cause to come; to cause to proceed from a distant place, in company, or at the same time; as, to bring a boat over a river; to bring a horse or carriage; to bring a cargo of dry goods.

5. To cause to come to a point, by moral influence; used of the mind, and implying previous remoteness, aversion, alienation, or disagreement; as, to bring the mind to assent to a proposition; or to bring a man to terms, by persuasion or argument. In this sense, it is nearly equivalent to persuade, prevail upon, or induce. The same process is effected by custom, and other causes. Habit brings us to relish things at first disagreeable; reflection brings a man to his senses, and whether the process is slow or rapid, the sense of the verb is the same. To bring to the mind any thing before and forgotten, is to recall; but the sense of bring is the same.

The primary sense is to lead, draw or cause to come; the sense of conveying or bearing is secondary.

The use of this verb is so extensive, and incorporated into so many peculiar phrases, that it is not easy to reduce its significations within any precise limits. In general, the verb bring implies motion from a place remote, either in a literal or figurative sense. It is used with various modifying words.bring back is to recall, implying previous departure, either in a literal or figurative sense.

To bring about, to bring to pass; to effect; to accomplish; to bring to the desired issue.

To bring forth is to produce, as young or fruit; also, to bring to light; that is, to make manifest; to disclose.

To bring forward, to cause to advance; to produce to view.

To bring in, to import; to introduce; to bear from remote place within a certain precinct; to place in a particular condition; to collect things dispersed; to reduce within the limits of law and government; to produce, as income, rent or revenue; to induce to join; etc.

To bring off, to bear or convey from a distant place, as to bring off men from an isle; also, to procure to be acquitted; to clear form condemnation; to cause to escape.

To bring on, to cause to begin, as to bring on an action; also, to originate or cause to exist, as to bring on a disease; also, to bear or convey from a distance, as to bring on a quantity of goods; also, to attend, or to aid in advancing, as to bring one on his way.

To bring over, to bear across, as to bring over dispatches, to bring over passengers in a boat; also, to convert by persuasion or other means; to draw to a new party; to cause to change sides, or an opinion.

To bring out, to expose; to detect; to bring to light from concealment; as, to bring out an accomplice or his crimes.

To bring under, to subdue; to repress; to restrain; to reduce to obedience; also, to bring beneath any thing.

To bring up, to nurse; to educate; to instruct; to feed and clothe; to form the manners, and furnish the mind with knowledge. The phrase may comprehend all these particulars. Also, to introduce to practice, as to bring up a fashion or ceremony; also, to cause to advance near, as to bring up forces, or the body of reserve; also, to bear or convey upwards. In navigation, to cast anchor.

To bring down, to cause to come down; also, to humble or abase, as to bring down high looks.

To bring to, in navigation, to check the course of a ship, by arranging the sails in such a manner, that they shall counteract each other, and keep her nearly stationary. She is then said to lie to. The phrase is used also in applying a rope to the capstan.

To bring by the lee, to incline so rapidly to leeward of the course, when a ship sails large, as to bring the lee side suddenly to the windward, and by laying the sails aback, expose her to the danger of oversetting.

Bringer

BRING'ER, noun One who brings, or conveys to.

Bringer in, the person who introduces.

Bringer up, an instructor; one who feeds, clothes, and educates; also, one who is in the rear of an army.

Bringing

BRING'ING, participle present tense Bearing to; conveying; persuading; causing to come.

BRING'ING FORTH, noun Production.

Brinish

BRI'NISH, adjective [from brine.] Like brine; salt; somewhat salt; saltish.

Brinishness

BRI'NISHNESS, noun Saltness; the quality of being saltish.

Brink

BRINK, noun The edge, margin or border of a steep place, as of a precipice, or the bank of a river.

Briny

BRI'NY, adjective [from brine.] Pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as a briny taste; the briny flood.

Brisk

BRISK, adjective [This word may be of the same family with frisk, and fresh, which see.]

1. Lively; active; nimble; gay; sprightly; vivacious; applied to animals; as a brisk young man; a brisk cyder.

2. Full of spirit or life; effervescing, as liquors; as brisk cyder.

3. Lively; burning freely; as a brisk fire.

4. Vivid; bright; as, a glass makes an object appear brisk [Not used.]

BRISK UP, verb transitive To make lively; to enliven; to animate.

BRISK UP, verb intransitive To come up with life and speed; to take an erect, or bold attitude.

Brisket

BRISK'ET, noun The breast of an animal; or that part of the breast that lies next to the ribs. The fore part of the neck of a horse, at the shoulder down to the fore legs.

Briskly

BRISK'LY, adverb Actively; vigorously; with life and spirit.

Briskness

BRISK'NESS, noun Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence of liquors.

Bristle

BRIS'TLE, noun bris'l.

1. The stiff glossy hair of swine, especially that growing on the back, used for making brushes; similar hair on other animals.

2. A species of pubescence on plants, in form of stiff roundish hair.

BRIS'TLE, verb transitive To erect in bristles; to erect in defiance or anger, like a swine; as, to bristle the crest.

1. To fix a bristle; as, to bristle a thread.

BRIS'TLE, verb intransitive To rise or stand erect; as, the hair bristles.

1. To raise the head and strut, as in anger or defiance; as, a man bristles up to another. In this sense the word is common in the U. States, but generally pronounced brustle.

Bristle-Shaped

BRIS'TLE-SHAPED, adjective [bristle and shape.] To the thickness and length of a bristle, as a leaf.

Bristly

BRIS'TLY, adjective bris'ly. Thick set with bristles, or with hairs like bristles; rough.

Bristol-Flower

BRIS'TOL-FLOWER, noun A species of Lychnis, bachelor's button or catch fly.

Bristol-Stone

BRIS'TOL-STONE, noun Rock crystal or crystals of quartz, found in a rock near the city of Bristol in England.

Bristol-Water

BRIS'TOL-WATER, noun The water of a warm spring near the city of Bristol in England.

Brit

BRIT, noun A fish; probably a different orthography of bret, or burt.

Britannic

BRITAN'NIC, adjective Pertaining to Britain; or in its present use, to Great Britain. It is applied almost exclusively to the title of the king; as his britannic Majesty. In the Encyclopedia, article Argo Navis, it is applied to catalogue, the britannic catalogue.

Britch

BRITCH, noun The large end of a cannon or of a musket; the club or thick part of the stock of a musket or other fire arm.

BRITCH', verb transitive To fasten with britching.

Britching

BRITCH'ING, noun A strong rope, fastened to the cascabel or pummelion of a cannon, by a thimble, and clinched to ring bolts in the ship's side, to prevent it from recoiling too much in battle.

Brite

BRITE, or BRIGHT, verb intransitive To be or become over ripe, as wheat, barley or hops. [I know not that this word is used in the U. States.]

British

BRIT'ISH, adjective Pertaining to Great Britain or its inhabitants. It is sometimes applied to the language of the Welsh.

Briton

BRIT'ON, noun A native of Britain.

BRIT'ON, adjective British.

Brittle

BRIT'TLE, adjective [Heb. to part, to break. See Part.]

Easily broken or easily breaking short, without splinters or loose parts rent from the substance; fragile; not tough or tenacious; as brittle stone or glass.

Brittlely

BRIT'TLELY, adverb In a brittle manner.

Brittleness

BRIT'TLENESS, noun Aptness to break; fragility; opposed to toughness and tenacity.

Brize

BRIZE, noun The gad fly. [See Breeze.]

Broach

BROACH, noun

1. A spit, and in some parts of the English dominions, an awl, and a bodkin.

2. A musical instrument played by turning a handle.

3. A clasp or small utensil to fasten a vest. [See Brooch.]

4. A start of the head of a young stag.

BROACH, verb transitive

1. To spit; to pierce as with a spit.

2. To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor; hence, to let out.

3. To open, as a store. [Unusual.]

4. To utter; to give out; to publish first; to make public what was before unknown; as, to broach an opinion.

To broach to, in navigation, to incline suddenly to windward, so as to lay the sails aback and expose the vessel to the danger of oversetting.

Broached

BROACHED, participle passive Spitted; tapped; opened; uttered; first published.

Broacher

BROACHER, noun A spit; one who broaches, opens or utters; a first publisher.

Broad

BROAD, adjective brawd. [Latin gradior; a root of extensive use.]

1. Wide; extended in breadth, or from side to side, as distinguished from long, or extended from end to end. It is opposed to narrow; as a broad street; a broad table.

2. Wide; extensive; vast; as the broad expanse of ocean.

3. Large; as a broad mixture of falsehood.

4. Open; clear; not covered, confined or concealed; as in broad sunshine.

5. Gross; coarse; as broad mirth; broad nonsense.

6. Plain; tending to obscenity; as a broad comment.

7. Bold; not delicate; not reserved; as broad words.

8. Comprehensive.

It may be urged that the words in the constitution are broad enough to include the case.

BROAD as long, equal upon the whole.

Broad-Ax

BROAD-AX, noun [broad and ax.] Formerly, a military weapon. In modern usage, an ax for hewing timber.

Broad-Backed

BROAD-BACKED, adjective [broad and back.] Having a broad back.

Broad-Blown

BROAD-BLOWN, adjective [broad and blow.] Full blown.

Broad-Breasted

BROAD-BREASTED, adjective Having a broad breast.

Broad-Brimmed

BROAD-BRIMMED, adjective [broad and brim.] Having a broad brim.

Broad-Cast

BROAD-CAST, noun [broad and cast.] Among farmers, a casting or throwing seed from the hand for dispersion in sowing.

BROAD-CAST, adverb By scattering or throwing at large from the hand; as, to sow broad-cast

BROAD-CAST, adjective Cast or dispersed upon the ground with the hand, as seed in sowing; opposed to planting in hills or rows.

Broad-Cloth

BROAD-CLOTH, noun A species of woolen cloth, so called from its breadth.

Broad-Eyed

BROAD-EYED, adjective [broad and eye.] Having a wide view or survey; as broad-eyed day.

Broad-Fronted

BROAD-FRONTED, adjective Having a broad front; applied to cattle.

Broad-Horned

BROAD-HORNED, adjective Having large horns.

Broad-Leafed

BROAD-LEAFED, adjective [broad and leaf.] Having broad leaves.

Broad-Leaved

BROAD-LEAVED,

BROAD-PIECE, noun [broad and piece.] A piece of gold coin broader than a guinea.

Broad-Piece

BROAD-PIECE, n. [broad and piece.] A piece of gold coin broader than a guinea.

Broad-Seal

BROAD-SEAL, noun The great seal of England; as a verb, not used.

Broad-Shouldered

BROAD-SHOULDERED, adjective [broad and shoulder.] Broad across the shoulders.

Broad-Side

BROAD-SIDE, noun [broad and side.] A discharge of all the guns on one side of a ship, above and below, at the same time.

1. The side of a ship, above the water, from the bow to the quarter.

2. In printing, a sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only.

Broad-Spreading

BROAD-SPREADING, adjective Spreading widely.

Broad-Sword

BROAD-SWORD, noun [broad and sword.] A sword with a broad blade, and a cutting edge.

Broad-Tailed

BROAD-TAILED, adjective Having a broad tail.

Broad-Wise

BROAD-WISE, adverb [broad and wise.] In the direction of the breadth.

Broaden

BROADEN, verb intransitive brawd'n. To grow broad. [Unusual.]

Broadish

BROAD'ISH, adjective Rather broad.

Broadly

BROADLY, adverb In a broad manner.

Broadness

BROADNESS, noun Breadth; extent from side to side; coarseness; grossness; fulsomeness.

Brocade

BROCA'DE, noun Silk stuff, variegated with gold and silver, or raised and enriched with flowers, foliage and other ornaments.

Brocade-Shell

BROCADE-SHELL, noun The trivial name of the Conus geographicus.

Brocaded

BROCA'DED, adjective Woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver.

1. Drest in brocade.

Brocage

BRO'CAGE, noun [See Broke, Broker.]

1. The premium or commission of a broker; the gain or profit derived from transacting business for other men, as brokers, either in a good or bad sense.

2. The hire given for any unlawful office.

3. The trade of a broker; a dealing in old things.

4. The business of a broker; the transactions of commercial business, as buying and selling, for other men. [See Broke, Broker.]

5. The act of pimping.

Brocatel

BRO'CATEL,

BROCATEL'LO, noun A calcarious stone or species of marble, composed of fragments of four colors, white, gray, yellow and red.

1. A kind of coarse brocade, used chiefly for tapestry. Newman says it is made of hemp and silk.

Brocatello

BROCATEL'LO, n. A calcarious stone or species of marble, composed of fragments of four colors, white, gray, yellow and red. 1. A kind of coarse brocade, used chiefly for tapestry. Newman says it is made of hemp and silk.

Broccoli

BROC'COLI, noun A variety of cabbage or Brassica.

Broche

BROCHE, the true, but not the common orthography of broach.

Brock

BROCK, noun A badger; an animal of the genus Ursus, found in the northern parts of Europe and Asia. The Russians call it barsuk.

In Ir. brech is a wolf, a wild savage and a badger.

Brocket

BROCK'ET, noun [See Brock.] A red deer two years old. Bailey writes this brock or brocket The French write it brocard.

Brodekin

BRO'DEKIN, noun A buskin or half boot.

Broggle

BROG'GLE, verb intransitive To fish for eels. [Not used.]

Brogue

BROGUE, noun brog.

1. A shoe. 'Clouted brogues.' in Shakespeare, signify shoes whose soles are studded with nails, or clouts.

2. A cant word for a corrupt dialect or manner of pronunciation.

3. Brogues is used by Shenstone for breeches, from the Irish brog.

Brogue-Maker

BROGUE-MAKER, noun A maker of brogues.

Broid

BROID, verb transitive To braid. [See Braid.]

Broider

BROID'ER, verb transitive To adorn with figures of needle work.

A robe, a broidered coat, and a girdle.

Broiderer

BROID'ERER, noun One that embroiders.

Broidery

BROID'ERY, noun Embroidery; ornamental needle work wrought upon cloth. [See Embroider.]

Broil

BROIL, noun A tumult; a noisy quarrel; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.

BROIL, verb transitive To agitate with heat; to dress or cook over coals, before the fire; but more generally upon a gridiron over coals.

BROIL, verb intransitive To be subjected to the action of heat, like meat over the fire; to be greatly heated or to sweat with heat.

Where have you been broiling?

Broiled

BROIL'ED, participle passive Agitated or dressed by heat.

Broiler

BROIL'ER, noun One that excites broils; that which dresses by broiling.

Broiling

BROIL'ING, participle present tense Agitating by heat; sweating.

Broke

BROKE, verb transitive [Latin fruor, for frucor, whence fructus, fruit. See Practice.]

To transact business for another in trade; to act as agent in buying and selling, and other commercial business; to transact business by an agent. [This word is little used, at least in America; and English writers seem to have used it in a low sense.]

BROKE, preterit tense and participle passive of break.

Broken

BRO'KEN, participle passive of break. bro'kn. Parted by violence; rent asunder; infirm; made bankrupt.

Broken-Backed

BRO'KEN-BACKED, adjective A broken-backed ship is one which is so weakened in her frame as to droop at each end.

Broken-Bellied

BRO'KEN-BELLIED, adjective Having a ruptured belly.

Broken-Hearted

BRO'KEN-HEARTED, adjective [break and heart.] Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.

Brokenly

BRO'KENLY, adverb In a broken interrupted manner; without a regular series.

Brokenness

BRO'KENNESS, noun A state of being broken; unevenness.

1. Contrition; as brokenness of heart.

Brokenwind

BRO'KENWIND, noun [break and wind.] A disease in horses, often accompanied with a preternatural enlargement of the lungs and heart, which disables them from bearing fatigue.

Brokenwinded

BRO'KENWINDED, adjective Having short breath, as a horse.

Broker

BRO'KER, noun [from broke.]

1. An agent or negotiator, who is employed by merchants to make and conclude bargains for them for a fee or rate per cent., or who transacts other business for his employers.

Brokers are of several kings.

1. Exchange-brokers, who make and conclude bargains for others in matters of money or merchandize, learn the rate of exchange and notify their employers.

2. Stock-brokers, who are employed to buy and sell shares in the stocks, whether of the public funds, of banks or of other corporations.

3. Pawn-brokers, who make it their business to lend money upon pawns, that is, property deposited in pledge.

4. Insurance-brokers, whose business is to procure the insurance of vessels at sea or bound on a voyage.

In the U. States, the business of a stockbroker and an insurance-broker is often or generally carried on by the same person.

2. One who deals in old household goods.

3. A pimp or procurer.

Brokerage

BRO'KERAGE, noun The fee, reward or commission given or charged for transacting business as a broker.

Brokerly

BRO'KERLY, adjective Mean; servile.

Brokery

BRO'KERY, noun The business of a broker. [Not used.]

Broking

BRO'KING, participle present tense Transacting business as a broker; practiced by brokers.

Brome

BROME, noun [Gr. foetor.] A liquid of a deep red-brown color, very volatile, and having an ill smell, obtained from the mother-water of salt-works, and from the lixivia of the ashes of sea plants, by treating these solutions with chlorine. It has three times the density of water.

Brome-Grass

BROME-GRASS, noun A plant, the Bromus.

Bronchial

BRONCH'IAL, adjective [Gr. the wind-pipe.] Belong to the bronchia, or ramifications of the wind-pipe in the lungs.

The bronchial arteries are branches of the superior descending aorta accompanying the bronchia, or branches of the trachea.

Bronchial glands, glands at the division of the bronchia.

Bronchic

BRONCH'IC, adjective The same as bronchial.

Bronchocele

BRONCH'OCELE, noun [Gr. the wind-pipe, and, a tumor.]

An enlarged thyroid gland; a tumor on the fore part of the neck, called goiter; the Derbyshire neck.

Bronchotomy

BRONCHOT'OMY, noun [Gr. the wind-pipe, and, a cutting.]

An incision into the wind pipe or larynx, between the rings; called also tracheotomy.

Brond

BROND, noun A sword. [See Brand.]

Brontology

BRONTOL'OGY, noun [Gr. thunder, and discourse.]

A discourse or dissertation upon thunder, containing an explanation of its causes and phenomena.

Bronz

BRONZ,

BRONZE, noun

1. A compound of copper and tin, to which other metallic substances are sometimes added, especially zink. It is brittle, hard, and sonorous, and used for statues, bells and cannon, the proportions of the respective ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes.

2. A color prepared for the purpose of imitating bronze, of two kinds, the yellow and the red. The yellow is made of fine copper-dust; the red, of copper-dust with a little pulverized red ocher.

3. Among antiquaries, any figure of men, beasts, urns, or other piece of sculpture, which the ancients made of bronze.

4. Any statue or bust cast of bronze, whether original or a copy of an antique.

5. Among medalists, any copper medal.

BRONZE, verb transitive To imitate bronze, by means of copper-dust or leaf fastened on the outside, as gold-leaf in gilding.

1. To harden, or make like brass.

Bronze

BRONZE, n. 1. A compound of copper and tin, to which other metallic substances are sometimes added, especially zink. It is brittle, hard, and sonorous, and used for statues, bells and cannon, the proportions of the respective ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes.2. A color prepared for the purpose of imitating bronze, of two kinds, the yellow and the red. The yellow is made of fine copper-dust; the red, of copper-dust with a little pulverized red ocher.3. Among antiquaries, any figure of men, beasts, urns, or other piece of sculpture, which the ancients made of bronze.4. Any statue or bust cast of bronze, whether original or a copy of an antique.5. Among medalists, any copper medal.

Bronzing

BRONZ'ING, participle present tense Imitating bronze.

BRONZ'ING, noun The act or art of imitating bronze, by means of copper-dust or leaf.

Bronzite

BRONZ'ITE, noun [from bronze.] A mineral, called by Hauy diallage metalloide, nearly allied to Labrador hornblend, or hyperstene. It has a yellowish brown color and semi-metallic luster, approaching to that of bronze.

Bronzite is regarded by Cleaveland as a subspecies of diallage.

Brooch

BROOCH, noun broche.

1. An ornamental utensil for fastening the vest, or the bosom of a shirt, as formerly used in America. It is usually made of silver, often round, with a tongue crossing its diameter, sometimes with two tongues. It formerly was used in England, as it was in America, and is still in the highlands of Scotland.

2. A jewel.

3. With painters, a painting all of one color.

BROOCH, verb transitive To adorn or furnish with brooches or jewels.

Brood

BROOD, verb intransitive

1. To sit on and cover, as a fowl on her eggs for the purpose of warming them and hatching chickens, or as a hen over her chickens, to warm and protect them.

2. To sit on; to spread over, as with wings; as, to sit brooding over the vast abyss.

3. To remain a long time in anxiety or solicitous thought; to have the mind uninterruptedly dwell a long time on a subject; as, the miser broods over his gold.

4. To mature any thing with care.

BROOD, verb transitive To sit over, cover and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.

1. To cherish.

You'll brood your sorrows on a throne.

BROOD, noun Offspring; progeny; formerly used of human beings in elegant works, and we have brother, from this word; but it is now more generally used in contempt.

1. A hatch; the young birds hatched at once; as a brood of chickens or of ducks.

2. That which is bred; species generated; that which is produced.

Lybia's broods of poison.

3. The act of covering the eggs, or of brooding. [Unusual.]

Brooded

BROOD'ED, participle passive Covered with the wings; cherished.

Brooding

BROOD'ING, ppr. Sitting on; covering and warming; dwelling on with anxiety.

Broody

BROOD'Y, adjective In a state of sitting on eggs for hatching; inclined to sit. [Unusual.]

Brook

BROOK, noun [Gr. to rain, to pour, to flow.] A small natural stream of water, or a current flowing from a spring or fountain less than a river. In some parts of America, run is used in a like sense; but run is also applied to larger streams than brook

BROOK, verb transitive [Gr. to eat, to grind the teeth.] Literally, to chew or digest, as the Fr. digerir. Hence,

To bear; to endure; to support; as, young men cannot brook restraint.

BROOK'-LIME, noun [brook and lime.] A plant, a species of Veronica, called becabunga, with blue flowers in loose lateral spikes.

BROOK'-MINT, noun The water mint.

BROOK'-WEED, noun A plant, water pimpernel, the Samolus.

Brooky

BROOK'Y, adjective Abounding with brooks.

Broom

BROOM, noun

1. A plant of several species, called dyer's weed, being used by dyers to give a yellow color, dyer's broom green wood, or wood waxen, dwarf broom all belonging to the genus Genista. broom rape is Orobanche, and with large purple flowers, Lathroea.

Spanish broom is a species of Spartium, and Butcher's broom is the Ruscus.

2. A besom, or brush with a long handle for sweeping floors; so called from being originally made of the broom-plant. In America, brooms are made of the tops of broom-corn, or of some species of wood splintered, chiefly ash. The latter species of broom is furnished by the natives of the country. The original broom made of shrubs or twigs, is still used in stables.

BROOM. [See Bream.]

Broom-Corn

BROOM'-CORN, noun [broom and corn.] A species of Holcus or Guinea-corn, with a jointed stem, like a reed, or the stem of maize, rising to the highth of eight or ten feet, bearing a head of which brooms are made. Sometimes called Sorghum Saccharatum.

Brooming

BROOMING, a ship. [See Bream.]

Broomland

BROOM'LAND, noun [broom and land.] Land producing broom.

Broomrape

BROOM'RAPE, noun [See Broom.]

Broomstaff

BROOM'STAFF

BROOM'STICK, noun [See Staff and Stick.] The staff or handle of a broom.

Broomstick

BROOM'STICK, n. [See Staff and Stick.] The staff or handle of a broom.

Broomy

BROOM'Y, adjective Full of broom; containing broom.

Broth

BROTH, noun brauth.

1. Liquor in which flesh is boiled and macerated, usually with rice and herbs, or some ingredient to give it a better relish.

2. In America, the word is often applied to foaming water, and especially to a mixture of snow and water in the highways which is called snow-broth.

Brothel

BROTH'EL, noun [A dialectical orthography of bordel, which see.]

A house of lewdness; a house appropriated to the purposes of prostitution; a bawdy house; a stew.

Brothel-House

BROTH'EL-HOUSE, noun A brothel.

Brotheler

BROTH'ELER, noun One that frequents brothels.

Brothelry

BROTH'ELRY, noun Lewdness; obscenity.

Brother

BROTHER, noun plural brothers or brethren. [Latin frater.]

1. A human male born of the same father and mother. A male by one of the parents only is called a half-brother, or brother of the half blood.

2. Any one closely united; an associate; as a band of brothers.

3. One that resembles another in manners.

He that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Proverbs 18:9.

In scripture, the term brother is applied to a kinsman by blood more remote that a son of the same parents; as in the case of Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Laban. Persons of the same profession call each other brother as judges, clergymen, professors of religion, members of societies united in a common cause, monks and the like.

Kings give to each other the title of brother address their congregations by the title of brethren. In a more general sense, brother or brethren is used for man in general; all men being children of the same primitive ancestors, and forming one race of beings.

BROTHER-german is a brother by the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother or by the mother only.

Brotherhood

BROTH'ERHOOD, noun [brother and hood.] The state or quality of being a brother.

1. An association of men for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.

2. A class of men of the same kind, profession, or occupation.

Brotherless

BROTH'ERLESS, adjective Without a brother.

Brotherlike

BROTH'ERLIKE, adjective Becoming a brother.

Brotherlove

BROTH'ERLOVE, noun Brotherly affection.

Brotherly

BROTH'ERLY, adjective Pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming brothers; kind; affectionate; as brotherly love.

Shakespeare uses this word as an adverb. 'I speak but brotherly ' But the use is not authorized.

Brought

BROUGHT, preterit tense and participle present tense of bring; pronounced braut. [See Bring.]

Brow

BROW, noun [Latin palpebra.. It is probably contracted from brg, and signifies an edge, border or projection.]

1. The prominent ridge over the eye, forming an arch above the orbit. The skin of this arch or ridge is moved by muscles, which contract it in a frown and elevate it in joy or surprise. Hence, to know the brows, is to frown.

2. The hair that covers the brow forming an arch, called the eye brow

3. The forehead. Hence, the general air of the countenance.

4. The edge of a steep place, as the brink of a river or precipice; as the brow of a hill.

5. A fringe of coppice, adjoining to the hedge of a field.

BROW, verb transitive To bound; to limit; to form the edge or border of.

BROWN'-ANTLER, noun [brow and antler.] The first start that grows on a deer's head.

1. The branch of a deer's horn next the tail.

BROW'-BEAT, verb intransitive [brow and beat.] To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; or in general to bear down by impudence.

Browbeaten

BROW'BEATEN, participle passive Overborne by impudence.

Browbeating

BROW'BEATING, participle present tense Overbearing with severe brows, stern looks, or positive assertions.

BROW'BEATING, noun A bearing down with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions.

Browbound

BROW'BOUND, adjective [brow and bound.] Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem.

Browless

BROW'LESS, adjective Without shame.

BROW'-POST, noun [brow and post.] Among builders, a beam that goes across a building.

BROW'-SICK, adjective [brow and sick.] Dejected; hanging the head. [Not used.]

Brown

BROWN, adjective Dusky; of a dark or dusky color, inclining to redness; but the shades are various, as Spanish brown London brown clove brown tawny brown brown results from a mixture of red, black and yellow.

BROWN, verb transitive To make brown or dusky.

A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves,

BROWNs the dim void, and darkens deep the groves.

BROWN'-BILL, noun [brown and bill.] A weapon formerly used by the English foot soldiers. The origin of the name is not stated; but from it brown musket is said to have derived its appellation.

Brown-Spar

BROWN-SPAR, noun Pearl spar, or siderocalcite.

BROWN'-STUDY, noun [brown and study.] Gloomy study; dull thoughtfulness; meditation directed to no certain object.

BROWN'-WORT, noun [brown and wort.] A plant, prunella.

1. A species of Scrophularia, the vernalis, or yellow figwort, with brown stalks.

Brownish

BROWN'ISH, adjective Somewhat brown; inclined to brown.

Brownism

BROWN'ISM, noun The doctrines or religious creed of the Brownists, who maintained that any body of professing Christians united under one pastor, or communing together, constitute a church independent of any other.

Brownist

BROWN'IST, noun A follower of Robert Brown, a puritan, or dissenter from the Church of England, who left England with his congregation and settled at Middleburgh in Zealand. He was the head of a party of Independents in Church government.

Brownness

BROWN'NESS, noun A brown color.

Browny

BROWN'Y, adjective Brown. [Not used.]

Browse

BROWSE, verb transitive s as z. [Gr. to eat or browse; food, but probably these words may be from sprouts.]

To eat the ends of branches of trees and shrubs or the young shoots, as cattle, or deer.

BROWSE, verb intransitive s as z. To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs and trees, as cattle, sheep and goats.

BROWSE, noun brows. The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals.

Browsing

BROWS'ING, participle present tense s as z. Feeding on branches, shrubs, or shoots of trees.

Brucia

BRU'CIA,

BRU'CINE, noun A new vegetable alkali, extracted from the bark of the false angustura.

Brucine

BRU'CINE, n. A new vegetable alkali, extracted from the bark of the false angustura.

Brucite

BRU'CITE, noun A mineral, the chondrodite of Berzelius, which sometimes occurs in grains or imperfect crystals, sometimes in four-sided prisms with rhombic bases. It is so named from the late Dr. Bruce, a distinguished mineralogist of New York.

Bruise

BRUISE, verb transitive s as z. To crush by beating or pounding with an instrument not edged or pointed. When applied to animal flesh or to vegetables, a bruise is a contusion that impairs the natural solidity and texture of the part, but often without breaking the skin. When applied to minerals and similar substances, it signifies to break them, and often to reduce them to a coarse powder.

BRUISE, noun A contusion; a hurt upon the flesh of animals, upon plants or other bodies, with a blunt or heavy instrument.

Bruised

BRUISED, participle passive Crushed; hurt or broken by a blunt or heavy instrument.

Bruiser

BRUISER, noun A concave tool for grinding the specula of telescopes.

1. In vulgar language, a boxer.

Bruisewort

BRUISEWORT, noun [bruise and wort.] A plant; comfrey.

Bruising

BRUISING, participle present tense Crushing; breaking or wounding by a blunt or heavy instrument.

BRUISING, noun In popular language, a beating or boxing.

Bruit

BRUIT, noun Report; rumor; fame.

BRUIT, verb transitive To report; to noise abroad.

Bruma

BRUM'A

BRU'MAL, noun [Latin bruma winter, brumalis.] Belonging to the winter.

Brume

BRUME, noun Mist; fog; vapors. [Little used.]

Brun

BRUN, BURN, noun A river or stream.

Brunet

BRUNET',

BRUNETTE, noun A woman with a brown or dark complexion.

Brunette

BRUNETTE, n. A woman with a brown or dark complexion.

Brunion

BRUN'ION, noun A sort of fruit between a plum and a peach.

Brunswick green. An ammoniaco-muriate of copper, used for paper hangings and in oil painting.

Brunt

BRUNT, noun

1. The heat, or utmost violence of an onset; the strength or violence of any contention; as the brunt of a battle.

2. The force of a blow; violence; shock of any kind.

3. A sudden effort.

Brush

BRUSH, noun

1. An instrument for cleaning any thing of dust and dirt by light rubbing, as floors, furniture, boots, etc. Brushes originally were made of shrubs or small branches of trees tied together, and such are yet used for coarse purposes. But the materials most used are bristles set in wood. Painters use a small brush to lay colors on their large pieces. Silversmiths use a wire brush for scrubbing silver, copper or brass, in order to gilding; and there is a method of staining leather by rubbing the color on the skin with a brush

2. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood; a sense common in the U. States.

3. The small trees and shrubs of a wood; or a thicket of small trees.

4. A skirmish; a slight encounter; also, an assault; a shock, or rude treatment, from collision; as we say a scouring, a rub.

5. In electricity, the luminous appearance of electric matter issuing in diverging rays from a point.

6. A tail; as the brush of a fox.

BRUSH, verb transitive To sweep or rub with a brush; as, to brush a hat.

1. To strike as with a brush; to strike lightly, by passing over the surface, without injury, or impression; as, to brush the arm in passing; to brush the briny flood.

2. To paint with a brush; hence, to brush up is often used for cleansing in general.

3. With off, to remove by brushing, as to brush off dust; also, to carry away by an act like that of brushing, or by passing over lightly, as by wind.

4. To move as a brush; to pass over with a light contact.

BRUSH, verb intransitive To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.

1. To move or skim over, with a slight contact, or without much impression.

Brushed

BRUSH'ED, participle passive Rubbed with a brush; struck lightly.

Brusher

BRUSH'ER, noun One who brushes.

Brushing

BRUSH'ING, participle present tense Sweeping or rubbing with a brush; striking gently; moving nimbly in haste; skimming over lightly.

BRUSH'ING, adjective Brisk; light; as a brushing gallop.

Brushlike

BRUSH'LIKE, adjective [brush and like.] Resembling a brush.

Brushwood

BRUSH'WOOD, noun [brush and wood.] Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs; also, branches of trees cut off.

Brushy

BRUSH'Y, adjective Resembling a brush; rough; shaggy; having long hair.

Brusk

BRUSK, adjective Rude; rough.

Brustle

BRUS'TLE, verb intransitive brus'l. To crackle; to make a small crackling noise; to rustle, as a silk garment; to vapor, as a bully.

Brustling

BRUS'TLING, participle present tense Crackling; rustling; vaporing.

Brut

BRUT, verb intransitive To browse. [Not in use.]

Brutal

BRU'TAL, adjective [See Brute.] Pertaining to a brute; as brutal nature.

1. Savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling like a brute; merciless; as brutal courage; brutal manners.

Brutality

BRUTAL'ITY, noun Inhumanity; savageness; churlishness; insensibility to pity or shame.

Brutalize

BRU'TALIZE, verb transitive To make brutal, churlish or inhuman.

All cruel punishments brutalize the heart.

BRU'TALIZE, verb intransitive To become brutal, inhuman, or coarse and beastly.

Brutally

BRU'TALLY, adverb Cruelly; inhumanly; in a coarse, churlish, or brutal manner.