Brillancy (n.) The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brightness, whether in a literal or figurative sense.
Brilliant (p. pr.) Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.
Brilliant (p. pr.) Distinguished by qualities which excite admiration; splendid; shining; as, brilliant talents.
Brilliant (a.) A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendered more brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below.
Brilliant (a.) The smallest size of type used in England printing.
Brilliant (a.) A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving.
Brilliantly (adv.) In a brilliant manner.
Brilliantness (n.) Brilliancy; splendor; glitter.
Brills (n. pl.) The hair on the eyelids of a horse.
Brim (n.) The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.
Brim (n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.
Brim (n.) The rim of a hat.
Brimmed (imp. & p. p.) of Brim
Brimming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brim
Brim (v. i.) To be full to the brim.
Brim (v. t.) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
Brim (a.) Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme.
Brimful (a.) Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow.
Brimless (a.) Having no brim; as, brimless caps.
Brimmed (a.) Having a brim; -- usually in composition.
Brimmed (a.) Full to, or level with, the brim.
Brimmer (n.) A brimful bowl; a bumper.
Brimming (a.) Full to the brim; overflowing.
Brimstone (v. t.) Sulphur; See Sulphur.
Brimstone (a.) Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches.
Brimstony (a.) Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous.
Brin (n.) One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.
Brinded (a.) Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled.
Brindle (n.) The state of being brindled.
Brindle (n.) A brindled color; also, that which is brindled.
Brindle (a.) Brindled.
Brindled (a.) Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded.
Brine (n.) Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.
Brine (n.) The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.
Brine (n.) Tears; -- so called from their saltness.
Brine (v. t.) To steep or saturate in brine.
Brine (v. t.) To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.
Brought (imp. & p. p.) of Bring
Bringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bring
Bring (v. t.) To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.
Bring (v. t.) To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to.
Bring (v. t.) To convey; to move; to carry or conduct.
Bring (v. t.) To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
Bring (v. t.) To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton?
Bringer (n.) One who brings.
Brininess (n.) The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.
Brinish (a.) Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish.
Brinishness (n.) State or quality of being brinish.
Brinjaree (n.) A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound.
Brink (n.) The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig.
Briny (a.) Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.
Briony (n.) See Bryony.
Brisk (a.) Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
Brisk (a.) Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.
Bricked (imp. & p. p.) of Brisk
Bricking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brisk
Brisk (v. t. & i.) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.
Brisket (n.) That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.
Briskly (adv.) In a brisk manner; nimbly.
Briskness (n.) Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.
Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
Bristle (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
Bristled (imp. & p. p.) of Bristle
Bristling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bristle
Bristle (v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.
Bristle (v. t.) To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
Bristle (v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
Bristle (v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.
Bristle-pointed (a.) Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves.
Bristle-shaped (a.) Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.
Bristletail (n.) An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.
Bristliness (n.) The quality or state of having bristles.
Bristly (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.
Bristol (n.) A seaport city in the west of England.
Brisure (n.) Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.
Brisure (n.) A mark of cadency or difference.
Brit (n.) Alt. of Britt
Britt (n.) The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.
Britt (n.) The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.
Britannia (n.) A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.
Britannic (a.) Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
Brite (v. t.) Alt. of Bright
Bright (v. t.) To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops.
Briticism (n.) A word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Great Britain; any manner of using a word or words that is peculiar to Great Britain.
British (a.) Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants.
British (n. pl.) People of Great Britain.
Britisher (n.) An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp. one in the British military or naval service.
Briton (a.) British.
Briton (n.) A native of Great Britain.
Brittle (a.) Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
Brittlely (adv.) In a brittle manner.
Brittleness (n.) Aptness to break; fragility.
Brittle star () Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.
Britzska (n.) A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.
Brize (n.) The breeze fly. See Breeze.
Broach (n.) A spit.
Broach (n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
Broach (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.
Broach (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.