To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.
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A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.
A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.
The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.
A participant in boycotting.
Methods of boycotters.
A dagger; a bodkin.
A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.
The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.
Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.
In a boyish manner; like a boy.
The manners or behavior of a boy.
Boyhood.
same as boyish.
a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690, where William III of England defeated the deposed James II and so ended Stuart Catholicism in England.
a Eurafrican annual (Mercurialis annua) naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic.
a cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a raspberrylike flavor.
An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water.
same as brassiere.
Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands.
A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle.
A brabble.
A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.
Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.
To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up.
held up by braces or buttresses.
An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.
That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
A bitch of the hound kind.
A bitch of the hound kind. See also bratchet.
A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.
same as bratchet.
See Brachium.
Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.
A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.
Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.
One of the Brachioganoidei.
An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.
A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.
One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.
A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.
The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.
See Brahman.
A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.
The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.
Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.
Having short antenn/, as certain insects.
The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism.
A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.
A writer in short hand; a stenographer.
Stenography.
Conciseness of expression; brevity.
A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.
A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.
A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins.
Having short wings.
A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.
abnormal shortness of fingers and toes.
Of a short form.
A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.
One of the Brachyura.
Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the Brachyura.
The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.
Salt or brackish water.
A brake or fern.
To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.
The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.
Brackish.
A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises. Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.
A bract.
Having the nature or appearance of a bract.
Having a bract or bracts.
Furnished with bracts.
Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.
Same as Bractlet.
Destitute of bracts.
A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.
A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.
Same as Bridoon.
a hypotensive tissue hormone (C50H73N15O11) which acts on smooth muscle, dilates peripheral vessels and increases capillary permeability. It is formed locally in injured tissue and is believed to play a role in the inflammatory process. It is a nonapeptide with the sequence: Arg-Pro-Pro-Gly-Phe-Ser-Pro-Phe-Arg.
a natural family comprising the true sloths.
type genus of the Bradypodidae, comprising the three-toed sloths.
A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.
Proudly; boastfully.
the Norse god of poetry and music; a son of Odin.
A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.
Boastfulness; act of bragging.
Boastful.
One who brags; a boaster.
A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc.
Boastingly.
the Norse god of poetry and music; a son of Odin.
Without bragging.
In a manner to be bragged of; finely; proudly.
The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindu gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.
A Brahmani.
Any Brahman woman.
A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindus.
The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma.
An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.
A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindus.
The religious system of Brahmo-somaj.
a famous German composer, b. 1833, d. 1897.
Deceitful.
adorned with braid; as, his braided collar.
The act of making or using braids.
To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters and numerals are represented by patterns of raised tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind.
to transcribe in Braille.
a difficult problem.
the part of the skull that encloses the brain.
a product of one's creative thinking and work; as, the project was the brainchild of the director.
Supplied with brains.
Hot-headed; furious.
Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.
The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.
mental ability; intellectual acuity.
Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.
In a brainsick manner.
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