Webster's Dictionary 1828

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BRUSHLIKE

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

2837

BRUSHWOOD

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

2838

BRUSHY

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

2839

BRUSK

BRUSK, adjective Rude; rough.

2840

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.

2841

BRUSTLING

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

2842

BRUT

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

2843

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.

2844

BRUTALITY

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

2845

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 ...

2846

BRUTALLY

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

2847

BRUTE

BRUTE, adjective [Latin brutus, senseless, irrational.]1. Senseless; unconscious; as the brute earth.2. Irrational; ferine; as a brute beast.3. Bestial; in common with beasts; a...

2848

BRUTELY

BRU'TELY, adverb In a rude manner.

2849

BRUTENESS

BRU'TENESS, noun Brutality.

2850

BRUTIFY

BRU'TIFY, verb transitive To make a person a brute; to make senseless, stupid or unfeeling.

2851

BRUTISH

BRU'TISH, adjective Like a brute or beast; as a brutish form.1. Insensible; stupid; as brutish men.2. Unfeeling; savage; ferocious; brutal.3. Gross; carnal; bestial.4. Ignorant;...

2852

BRUTISHLY

BRU'TISHLY, adverb In the manner of a brute; grossly; irrationally; stupidly; savagely.

2853

BRUTISHNESS

BRU'TISHNESS, noun Stupidity; insensibility; brutality; savageness; the qualities of a brute.

2854

BRUTISM

BRUTISM, noun The nature or characteristic qualitites or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity or beastly vulgarity.

2855

BRYONY

BRY'ONY, noun [Latin bryonia.] White jalap; a genus of plants of several species. The root of the rough or white bryony is a strong irritating cathartic.Black-bryony is a genus ...

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BUB

BUB, noun A cant word for strong malt liquor.BUB, verb transitive To throw out in bubbles. [Not used.]

2857

BUBBLE

BUB'BLE, noun1. A small bladder or vesicle of water or other fluid inflated with air.2. Any thing that wants firmness or solidity; a vain project; that which is more specious th...

2858

BUBBLER

BUB'BLER, noun One who cheats.

2859

BUBBY

BUB'BY, noun [from the same root as bubble and bubo.] A woman's breast.

2860

BUBO

BU'BO, noun [Latin bubo a swelling.] A tumor or abscess with inflammation, which rises in certain glandular parts of the body, as in the groin, or armpit.

2861

BUBONOCELE

BU'BONOCELE, noun [Gr.the groin, and a tumor.] Hernia inguinalis, or inguinal rupture; a tumor in the groin, formed by a prolapsus of the intestines or omentum or both, through ...

2862

BUBUKLE

BU'BUKLE, noun A red pimple. [Not used.]