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...
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BRAIL
BRAIL, noun1. 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 lee...
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 s...
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 ...
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 langua...
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'BLINGBRAM'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'INESSBRAMIN'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, noun1. 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 bo...