Bronzine (a.) Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.
Bronzing (n.) The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes.
Bronzing (n.) A material for bronzing.
Bronzist (n.) One who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes.
Bronzite (n.) A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.
Bronzy (a.) Like bronze.
Brooch (n.) An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.
Brooch (n.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.
Brooch (imp. & p. p.) To adorn as with a brooch.
Brood (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
Brood (v. t.) The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
Brood (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Brood (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Brood
Brooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brood
Brood (v. i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
Brood (v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
Brood (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
Brood (v. t.) To cherish with care.
Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.
Broody (a.) Inclined to brood.
Brook (v. t.) A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
Brooked (imp. & p. p.) of Brook
Brooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brook
Brook (v. t.) To use; to enjoy.
Brook (v. t.) To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.
Brook (v. t.) To deserve; to earn.
Brookite (n.) A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
Brooklet (n.) A small brook.
Brooklime (n.) A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana.
Brook mint () See Water mint.
Brookside (n.) The bank of a brook.
Brookweed (n.) A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.
Broom (n.) A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.
Broom (n.) An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
Broom (v. t.) See Bream.
Broom corn () A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.
Broom rape () A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum.
Broomstaff (n.) A broomstick.
Broomstick (n.) A stick used as a handle of a broom.
Broomy (a.) Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom.
Brose (n.) Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used.
Brotel (a.) Brittle.
Brotelness (n.) Brittleness.
Broth (n.) Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.
Brothel (n.) A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.
Brotheler (n.) One who frequents brothels.
Brothelry (n.) Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel.
Brothers (pl. ) of Brother
Brethren (pl. ) of Brother
Brothers (pl. ) of Brother
Brethren (pl. ) of Brother
Brother (n.) A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
Brother (n.) One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.
Brother (n.) One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.
Brothered (imp. & p. p.) of Brother
Brother (v. t.) To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.
Brother german () A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.
Brotherhood (n.) The state of being brothers or a brother.
Brotherhood (n.) An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
Brotherhood (n.) The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
Brotherhood (n.) Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
Brothers-in-law (pl. ) of Brother-in-law
Brother-in-law (n.) The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.
Brotherliness (n.) The state or quality of being brotherly.
Brotherly (a.) Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.
Brotherly (adv.) Like a brother; affectionately; kindly.
Brouded (p.a.) Braided; broidered.
Brougham (n.) A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.
Brow (n.) The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.
Brow (n.) The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow.
Brow (n.) The forehead; as, a feverish brow.
Brow (n.) The general air of the countenance.
Brow (n.) The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.
Brow (v. t.) To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
Browbeat (imp.) of Browbeat
Browbeaten (p. p.) of Browbeat
Browbeating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Browbeat
Browbeat (v. t.) To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses.
Browbeating (n.) The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions.
Browbound (a.) Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem.
Browdyng (n.) Embroidery.
Browed (a.) Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed.
Browless (a.) Without shame.
Brown (superl.) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
Brown (n.) A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.
Browned (imp. & p. p.) of Brown
Browning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brown
Brown (v. t.) To make brown or dusky.
Brown (v. t.) To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
Brown (v. t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
Brown (v. i.) To become brown.
Brownback (n.) The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
Brown bill () A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill.
Brownian (a.) Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below.
Brownie (n.) An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
Browning (n.) The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
Browning (n.) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.