Breviature (n.) An abbreviature; an abbreviation.
Brevier (n.) A size of type between bourgeois and minion.
Breviloquence (n.) A brief and pertinent mode of speaking.
Breviped (a.) Having short legs.
Breviped (n.) A breviped bird.
Brevipen (n.) A brevipennate bird.
Brevipennate (a.) Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.
Brevirostral (a.) Alt. of Brevirostrate
Brevirostrate (a.) Short-billed; having a short beak.
Brevities (pl. ) of Brevity
Brevity (n.) Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.
Brevity (n.) Contraction into few words; conciseness.
Brewed (imp. & p. p.) of Brew
Brewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brew
Brew (v. t.) To boil or seethe; to cook.
Brew (v. t.) To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.
Brew (v. t.) To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
Brew (v. t.) To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.
Brew (v. i.) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
Brew (v. i.) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.
Brew (n.) The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.
Brewage (n.) Malt liquor; drink brewed.
Brewer (n.) One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
Brewery (n.) A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.
Brewhouse (n.) A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.
Brewing (n.) The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.
Brewing (n.) The quantity brewed at once.
Brewing (n.) A mixing together.
Brewing (n.) A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds.
Brewis (n.) Broth or pottage.
Brewis (n.) Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter.
Brewsterite (n.) A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia.
Brezilin (n.) See Brazilin.
Briar (n.) Same as Brier.
Briarean (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.
Bribable (a.) Capable of being bribed.
Bribe (n.) A gift begged; a present.
Bribe (n.) A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust.
Bribe (n.) That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
Bribed (imp. & p. p.) of Bribe
Bribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bribe
Bribe (v. t.) To rob or steal.
Bribe (v. t.) To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge, juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to.
Bribe (v. t.) To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.
Bribe (v. i.) To commit robbery or theft.
Bribe (v. i.) To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise.
Bribeless (a.) Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes.
Briber (n.) A thief.
Briber (n.) One who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices.
Briber (n.) That which bribes; a bribe.
Briberies (pl. ) of Bribery
Bribery (n.) Robbery; extortion.
Bribery (n.) The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements.
Bric-a brac (n.) Miscellaneous curiosities and works of decorative art, considered collectively.
Brick (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
Brick (n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
Brick (n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
Brick (n.) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
Bricked (imp. & p. p.) of Brick
Bricking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brick
Brick (v. t.) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
Brick (v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.
Brickbat (n.) A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4.
Brickkiln (n.) A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.
Bricklayer (n.) One whose occupation is to build with bricks.
Bricklaying (n.) The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.
Brickle (a.) Brittle; easily broken.
Brickleness (n.) Brittleness.
Brickmaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make bricks.
Brickwork (n.) Anything made of bricks.
Brickwork (n.) The act of building with or laying bricks.
Bricky (a.) Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust.
Brickyard (n.) A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.
Bricole (n.) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.
Brid (n.) A bird.
Bridal (n.) Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
Bridal (n.) A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.
Bridalty (n.) Celebration of the nuptial feast.
Bride (n.) A woman newly married, or about to be married.
Bride (n.) Fig.: An object ardently loved.
Bride (v. t.) To make a bride of.
Bride-ale (n.) A rustic wedding feast; a bridal. See Ale.
Bridebed (n.) The marriage bed.
Bridecake (n.) Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.
Bridechamber (n.) The nuptial apartment.
Bridegroom (n.) A man newly married, or just about to be married.
Brideknot (n.) A knot of ribbons worn by a guest at a wedding; a wedding favor.
Bridemaid (n.) Alt. of Brideman
Brideman (n.) See Bridesmaid, Bridesman.
Bridesmaid (n.) A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.
Bridesmen (pl. ) of Bridesman
Bridesman (n.) A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man."
Bridestake (n.) A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round.
Bridewell (n.) A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.
Bridge (n.) A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.
Bridge (n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
Bridge (n.) The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.
Bridge (n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
Bridge (n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
Bridged (imp. & p. p.) of Bridge