An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary.

To abbreviate.

An abbreviature; an abbreviation.

A size of type between bourgeois and minion.

A brief and pertinent mode of speaking.

Having short legs. A breviped bird.

A brevipennate bird.

Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.

Short-billed; having a short beak.

Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.

a genus of fishes consisting of the menhaden.

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.

Malt liquor; drink brewed.

One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.

A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.

A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.

The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.

Broth or pottage.

A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia.

See Brazilin.

Same as Brier.

A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.

an old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat.

Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.

the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea.

wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes.

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; -- of plants or animals.

Capable of being bribed.

To commit robbery or theft.

Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes.

A thief.

Robbery; extortion.

Miscellaneous curiosities and works of decorative art, considered collectively.

To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.

A piece or fragment of a brick. See 1st Bat, n. 4.

genus of herbs of SW America having usually creamy florets followed by one-seeded fruits in a prominent bristly sheath.

a place where bricks are made and sold.

Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

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.

One whose occupation is to build with bricks.

The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.

Brittle; easily broken.

Brittleness.

One whose occupation is to make bricks.

Anything made of bricks.

Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust.

A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.

A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

A bird.

A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.

Celebration of the nuptial feast.

a shrub (Spiraea prunifolia) having copious small white flowers in spring.

To make a bride of.

A rustic wedding feast; a bridal. See Ale.

The marriage bed.

Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.

The nuptial apartment.

A man newly married, or just about to be married.

A knot of ribbons worn by a guest at a wedding; a wedding favor.

See Bridesmaid, Bridesman.

A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the /best man./

A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round.

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.

A card game resembling whist.

A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge.

capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge.

A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.

a circuit consisting of a T-network with an additional arm bridging the two series arms.

A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a t/te-de-pont.

The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.

Having no bridge; not bridged.

The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle.

The capital city of Barbados. Population (2000) = 6,700.

The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill.

Full of bridges.

To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up.

One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle.

The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein.

same as Brie cheese.

To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.

a small suitcase with a handle; it is used for carrying papers or files or books.

giving detailed instructions, as for a military operation.

Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister.

Concisely; in few words.

One who makes a brief.

The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.

the white heath Erica arborea.

Set with briers.

wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; it is used to make tobacco pipes. See also 2nd brier and brier root.

A place where briers grow.

On a United States man-of-war, the prison or place of confinement for offenders.

To form into a brigade, or into brigades.

A light-armed, irregular foot soldier.

Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.

A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages.

Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.

Brigandage.

A practical vessel.

A bridge.

Brightly.

To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops.

Having glittering armor.

To grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful.

Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor.

The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.

Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant.

Contentious; quarrelsome.

To contend for; to canvass; to solicit.

A breach; ruin; downfall; peril.

A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.

Brilliancy.

The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brightness, whether in a literal or figurative sense.

In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.

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.

An oily composition used to make the hair manageable and glossy.

In a brilliant manner.

Brilliancy; splendor; glitter.

The hair on the eyelids of a horse.

Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme.

Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow.