Poisoning induced by large doses of bromine and iodine or of their compounds.
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Treated with bromides and iodides.
A crystalline substance (chemically, tribromophenol, C6H2Br3OH), used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin.
A mixture containing morphine and cocaine, and sometimes other narcotic substances, such as heroin, in an alcoholic solution, administered mostly to terminally ill patients, especially cancer patients, to relieve severe pain. Its use is not universally accepted as good medical practice.
See Bromide.
Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite.
an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang.
See Bronchus.
The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi.
Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs.
Bronchial.
of or pertaining to a bronchiole.
A minute bronchial tube.
inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchioles.
Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.
Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.
A native or a Mexican horse of small size.
Inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia.
See Goiter.
A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.
An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.
An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.
One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.
Same as Broncho.
A sword.
A tracing or chart showing the phenomena attendant on thunderstorms. An instrument for making such tracings, as a recording brontometer.
An a/rolite.
A treatise upon thunder.
An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.
a dinosaur of the genus Brontosaurus; an individual may also be called a brontosaurus or an apatosaurus.
A genus of large sauropod American dinosaurs of the jurassic era, or an individual of that genus. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles. The genus is also called Apatosaurus, and individuals of the genus are also called brontosaurs.
A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.
An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.
To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.
An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.
A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze. Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.
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.
One who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes.
A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.
Like bronze.
To adorn as with a brooch.
To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants.
the process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; -- mostly used of birds.
a female horse used for breeding.
Inclined to brood.
To use; to enjoy.
A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
A small brook.
A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is Veronica Americana.
The bank of a brook.
A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.
See Bream.
A broomstick.
A stick used as a handle of a broom.
Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom.
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.
Brittle.
Brittleness.
Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.
A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.
One who frequents brothels.
Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel.
To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.
The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.
The state of being brothers or a brother.
The state or quality of being brotherly.
Like a brother; affectionately; kindly.
any fish of the family Brotulidae.
a natural family of chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae.
Braided; broidered.
A light, enclosed carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.
the confused noise of many voices.
a genus of shade trees including the paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) of East Asia.
To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers.
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.
The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions.
Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem.
Embroidery.
Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed.
Without shame.
To become brown.
The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
having a tan color from exposure to the sun; -- of skin color.
Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below.
An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
Somewhat brown.
The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine. See Brunonian.
One who advocates the Brunonian system of medicine.
The quality or state of being brown.
darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft).
A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.
A species of figwort or Scrophularia (Scrophularia vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
Brown or, somewhat brown.
A beam that goes across a building.
To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.
An animal that browses.
Shrubs and bushes upon which animals browse.
Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse.
A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.
The Malayan sun bear.
A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.
A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate. The mineral chondrodite.
Wet and dirty; begrimed.
a genus of plants of the nightshade family, including some plants often placed in the genus Datura, such as the angel's trumpets.
The rhesus monkey. See Rhesus.
A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.
An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.
suffering from emotional injury; as, a bruised ego.
One who, or that which, bruises.
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
To report; to noise abroad.
The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.
Of or pertaining to winter.
Mist; fog; vapors.
Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham.
Foggy; misty.
Same as Brun, a brook.
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