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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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Brūme, n. p. 169Mist; fog; vapors. [Obs.] Barlow.Brŭn or Bŭrn, n. p. 169A river or small stream; Bŭrn, a brook. [Scot.]Brū-nĕt'te, n. p. 169A girl or woman with a brown or dark complexion.Brŭg'non, n. p. 169A sort of fruit between a plum and a peach. Trévoux.Brū-nō'ni-an, a. p. 169Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; — a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the last century by John Brown, of Scotland, and extensively propagated in Germany and Italy, the…Brŭns'wick-green, n. p. 169A compound of one part chloride of copper, and three parts oxide of copper, used for paper hangings and in oil painting.Brŭnt, n. p. 169The 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; collision. “And heavy brunt of cannon ball.”…Brŭsh, n. p. 169An instrument composed of bristles, or other like materials, set in wood or bound together, used for various purposes, as removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, &c., and having a different…Brŭsh, v. t. p. 169To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, clean, paint, &c., with a brush. “He brushes his hat o’ mornings.” Shak. 2. To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as a brush.…Brŭsh, v. i. p. 169To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by. Snatching his hat, he brushed off like the wind. Goldsmith. 2. To move or skim over with a slight contact, or…Brŭsh'er, n. p. 169One who, or that which, brushes.Brŭsh'i-ness, n. p. 169The quality of resembling a brush; shagginess; roughness. H. More.Brŭsh'ing, a. p. 169Constructed to brush with; as, a brushing machine. 2. Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.Brŭsh'-tûr'key, n. p. 169(Ornith.) A large gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami). This bird was at one time regarded as a vulture. It collects great quantities of brush-wood, with which it raises mounds, in which…Brŭsh'-wheel, n. p. 169A wheel without teeth, sometimes used in light machinery to turn a similar one, by means of bristles, or something brush-like, or soft, as cloth or buff-leather, attached to the circumference. 2. A…Brūsh'-wŏod, n. p. 169Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off.Brūsh'y, a. p. 169Resembling a brush; rough; shaggy; having long hair.Brūsk or Brūsque, a. p. 169Rude; rough; blunt or rough in manner.Brüsque'ness, n. p. 169A blunt, rough manner. Brit. Quar.Brŭs'sels-sprouts, n. pl. p. 169(Bot.) A delicate variety of cabbage, popularly so called. They consist of small green heads, each a cabbage in miniature, of about one or two inches in diameter, which sprout forth from an upright…Brŭs'tle, v. i. p. 169To crackle; to make a small, crackling noise; to rustle, as a silk garment; to vapor, as a bully. [Obs.] Gower.Brūt, v. i. p. 169To browse. [Obs.] Evelyn.Brū'tal, a. p. 169<br>1. Pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. “Brutal kind.” Milton.<br>2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; as, brutal manners. “Brutal intemperance.” Macaulay.Bru'tal-ism, n. p. 169Brutish quality; brutality.Bru·tăl'i·ty, n. p. 169Quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; churlishness; insensibility to pity or shame.Brū'tal-i-zā'tion, n. p. 169Act of making brutal; state of being brutalized. Tuckerman.Brū'tal-ize, v. t. p. 169To make brutal, churlish, or inhuman.Brū'tal-īze, v. i. p. 169To become brutal, inhuman, or coarse and beastly. [Rare.] He ... brutalized with them in their habits and manners. Addison.Brū'tal-ly, adv. p. 169In a coarse, churlish, or brutal manner; cruelly; inhumanly.Brute, a. p. 169Not having sensation; senseless; unconscious; as, the brute earth. 2. Not possessing reason; irrational; ferine; as, a brute beast. A creature . . . not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued…Brute, n. p. 169A beast; any animal destitute of reason. Brutes may be considered as either aerial, terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious. Locke. 2. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; a low-bred, unfeeling…Brute, v. t. p. 169To report; to bruit. [Obs.]Brūte'ly, adv. p. 169In a rude manner.Brute'ness, n. p. 169Brutality. [Obs.] Spenser.Brū'ti-fy, v. t. p. 169To make a person a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. “A man not quite brutified and void of sense.” Barrow. It has possessed only two secrets for governing, . . . to drain…Bru'tish, a. p. 169Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; having some of the qualities or characteristics of brutes; insensible; unfeeling; brutal; bestial; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every…Bru'tish-ly, adv. p. 169In the manner of a brute; grossly; irrationally; stupidly; savagely.Brŭ'tish-ness, n. p. 169The quality of being brutish; stupidity; insensibility; brutality.Brū'tism, n. p. 169The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.Brūt'ing, n. p. 169Browsing. [Obs.] Evelyn.Brȳ-ōl'o-gy, n. p. 169That part of the science of botany which relates to mosses. Gray.Brȳ'o-nīne, n. p. 170(Chem.) An alkaloid obtained from the root of the bryony (B. alba and dioica). It is a yellowish-brown, bitter substance, and is emetic and cathartic.Bry'o-ny, n. p. 170(Bot.) A plant of different species of the genus Bryonia. The root of the rough or white bryony is a strong, irritating cathartic. Dunglison. Black bryony, a genus of plants called Tamus.Brȳ'o-zō'an, n. p. 170(Zoöl.) An animal of the sub-kingdom Mollusca. See MOLLUSK.Brȳ'o-zō'an, a. p. 170Pertaining to the bryozoa.Brȳ'o-zō'um, n. p. 170(Zoöl.) One of the minute animals of a bryozoan coralline. It has a circle of arms around the mouth like a polyp, but differs from polyps in having a regular intestine and anus, and also in other…Bŭb, n. p. 170[Prov. Eng. bub, liquor.] Strong malt liquor. [Cant.] Prior. 2. A brother. [Colloq. or low.] See BUBBY.Bŭb, v. t. p. 170To throw out in bubbles. [Obs.] Sackville.Bŭb’ble, n. p. 170A small bladder or vesicle of water or other fluid inflated with air. And when one bubble runs foul of another, the weaker needs must burst. Coleridge. 2. Any thing that wants firmness or solidity; a…Bŭb'ble, v. i. p. 170To rise in bubbles, as liquors when boiling or agitated. 2. To run with a gurgling noise; as, a bubbling stream. Pope. 3. To make a bubbling or gurgling sound. [Rare.] At mine ears Bubbled the…Bŭb'ble, v. t. p. 170To cheat; to deceive, or impose on. The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was certainly bubbled here. Sterne.Bŭb'bler, n. p. 170One who cheats. Digby. 2. (Ichth.) A fish found in the waters of the Ohio river, so called from the singular grunting noise which it makes. Bartlett.Bŭb'bly, a. p. 170Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.Bŭb'by, n. p. 170A woman's breast. [Low.]Bŭb'by, n. p. 170Brother;— a word applied to small boys. [Colloq.] Bartlett.Bŭ'bo, n. p. 170(Anat.) The groin. 2. (Med.) An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, particularly in the groin or axilla. Dunglison.Bu-bŏn'o-cēle, n. p. 170(Med.) A tumor in the groin, formed by a prolapsus of the intestines or omentum, or both; hernia inguinalis, or inguinal rupture.Bŭ'bu-kle, n. p. 170A red pimple. [Obs.] Shak.Bŭc'cal, a. p. 170Pertaining to the cheek. Buccal glands, the small salivary glands situated on the inside of the cheeks, between the mucous membrane of the mouth and the muscles.Bŭc'can, n. p. 170A grating or hurdle made of sticks.