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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Bräd'-awl, n. p. 158An awl to pierce holes for the insertion of brads. Weale.Bräd'y-pŭs, n. p. 158The sloth. See SLOTH.Brāe, n. p. 158A declivity; broken ground. [Scot.] Burns.Brăg, v. i. p. 158To praise one's self, or what belongs to one's self, in an ostentatious manner; to boast; to pretend; to vaunt;—followed by of. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance.…Brăg, n. p. 158A boast or boasting; ostentatious praise of one's own deeds or advantages. But made not here his brag Of “came,” and “saw,” and “overcame.” Shak. 2. The thing boasted of. “Beauty is Nature's brag.”…Brăg, a. p. 158Brisk; full of spirits. [Obs.] “A brag young fellow.” B. Jonson.Brăg'ga-dō'ci-o, n. p. 158A braggart; a boaster. “A braggadocio captain.” Dryden. 2. Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.Brăg'gard-ĭsm, n. p. 158Boastfulness; vain ostentation. [Obs.] Shak.Brăg'gart, n. p. 158A boaster; a vain fellow. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.Brăg'gart, a. p. 158Boastful; vainly ostentatious. The braggart shout For some blind glimpse of freedom. Tennyson.Brăg'ger, n. p. 158One who brags; a boaster.Brăg'get, n. p. 158A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, &c. [Obs.] And we have served there, armed all in ale, With the brown bowl, and charged with bragget stale. B. Jonson.Brăg'ging-ly, adv. p. 158Boastingly.Brăg'less, a. p. 158Without bragging or ostentation. [Obs.] Shak.Brăg'ly, adv. p. 158Proudly; grandly. [Obs.] Spenser.Brüh'mä, n. p. 158(Myth.) The first person in the trinity of the Hindoos; the creator.Bräh'man or Bräh'min, n. p. 158A person of the upper or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos. [Written also Brachman, Bramin.]Bräh'man-ee' or Bräh'man-ess, n. p. 158The wife of a Brahman.Bräh-măn'ic or Bräh-măn'ic-al or Bräh-mĭn'ic or Bräh-mĭn'ic-al, a. p. 158Pertaining to the Brahmans, or their doctrines and worship.Bräh'man-ism or Bräh'min-ism, n. p. 158The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma.Brāid, v. t. p. 158To weave or entwine together; to plat. “Braid your locks with rosy twine.” Milton. 2. (Dom. Econ.) To mingle by rubbing in some fluid or soft substance; as, to braid starch. Forby. 3. To reproach.…Brāid, n. p. 158A string, cord, or other texture, formed by weaving together different strands. A braid of hair composed of two different colors twined together. Scott. 2. A quick motion; a start. [Obs.] Sackville.Brāid, a. p. 158Deceitful. [Obs.] Since Frenchmen are so braid, Marry that will, I live and die a maid. Shak.Braid'ing, n. p. 158The act of making braids. 2. Braids collectively. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray.Brāil, n. p. 158(Falconry.) A piece of leather to bind up a hawk’s wing. Bailey. 2. (pl.) (Naut.) (a.) Ropes passing through pulleys, on the mizzen mast and yard, and fastened to the aftmost leech of the sail in…Brāil, v. t. p. 158(Naut.) To haul up into the brails, or to truss up with the brails; — used with up; as, to brail up a sail.Brāin, n. p. 158(Anat.) (a.) The whitish, soft mass which constitutes the anterior or cephalic extremity of the nervous system in man and other vertebrates, occupying the upper cavity of the skull, and considered to…Brāin, v. t. p. 158To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains; hence, to destroy; to put an end to. “There thou mayst brain him.” Shak. It was the swift celerity of his death . . . That bruised my…Brāin'-cōr'al or Brāin'-stōne, n. p. 158(Zoöl.) A coral of the genus Meandrina, growing in hemispherical forms, the surface of which is covered with meandering furrows somewhat like those of the brain; hence the name. Dana.Brāined, p. a. p. 158Having brains. “If the other two be brāined like us.” Shak.Brāin'-fē'ver, n. p. 158An inflammation of the brain; phrenitis. Dunglison.Brāin'ish, a. p. 158Hot-headed; furious. Shak.Brāin'less, a. p. 158Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.Brāin'-păn, n. p. 158The bones which include the brain; the skull; the cranium.Brāin'-sick, a. p. 158Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.Brāin'-sick'ly, adv. p. 158Weakly; with a disordered understanding. Shak.Brāin'-sick'ness, n. p. 158Disorder of the understanding; giddiness; indiscretion. Holland.Brāin'-thrōb, n. p. 158The throbbing of the brain.Brāit, n. p. 158A rough diamond;—so called by jewelers.Brāke, n. p. 158(Bot.) A fern of different genera, especially of the genus Pteris. 2. A place overgrown with brakes. Wordsworth. 3. A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles. He staid not for brake, and…Brāke, n. p. 158An instrument or machine to break flax or hemp. 2. The handle by which a pump is worked. 3. A baker’s kneading-trough. Johnson. 4. A sharp bit or snaffle. “Pampered jades . . . which need nor brake…Brāke'man, n. p. 158The man whose business is to manage the brake on railways. 2. (Mining.) The man in charge of the winding-engine.Brāke'wheel, n. p. 158A wheel to which a brake is applied. Weale.Brāk'y, a. p. 158Full of brakes; abounding with brambles or shrubs; rough; thorny. “In the woods and braky glens.” Browne.Brā'ma, n. p. 158See BRAHMA.Bră'mah p. 158Lock. A lock peculiarly difficult to pick, invented by a Mr. Bramah of London. Simmonds.Brä'mah-prĕss, n. p. 158A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by the Messrs. Bramah. See HYDROSTATIC-PRESS. Weale.Brām'ble, n. p. 158(Bot.) One of several different species of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry; hence, any rough, prickly shrub. London.Brām'ble or Brām'ble-finch, n. p. 158(Ornith.) A bird,Bräm'bling p. 158a species of Fringilla; the mountain-finch (F. montifringilla).Brām'ble-bush, n. p. 158(Bot.) The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together. “His eyebrows were large and shaggy, and greatly resembled bramble-bushes.” Lytton.Brām’bled, a. p. 158Overgrown with brambles. Forlorn she sits upon the bramble-floor. Warton.Brām'ble-nēt, n. p. 158A hallier, or a net to catch birds.Brām'bly, a. p. 158Pertaining to, resembling, or full of brambles. “In brambly wilderness.” Tennyson.Brāme, n. p. 158Vexation. [Obs.] “Heart-burning brame.” Spenser.Brā'min, n. p. 158See BRAHMAN.Brā'min-ee' or Brā'min-ess, n. p. 158See BRAHMANEE, BRAHMANESS.Bra-min'-i-cal, a. p. 158See BRAHMINICAL.Brā'min-ism, n. p. 158See BRAHMINISM.Brän, n. p. 158The proper coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other farinaceous grain, separated from the flour by bolting.