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.

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.

a late breakfast or an early lunch.

a sultanate in Northwestern Borneo.

of or pertaining to Brunei; as, Bruneian oil production.

A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion. Having a dark tint.

A nectarine.

Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.

The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.

To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.

p. p. of brush.

One who, or that which, brushes.

The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess.

Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.

A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.

Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush.

Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

Same as Brusque.

Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.

Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness.

The capital city of Belgium. Population (2000) = 949,070 (metro). It has given its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.

A bristle.

See Birt.

very dry; -- used of wine or champagne.

See Edentata.

Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.

to become brutal.

Brutish quality; brutality.

The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.

In a brutal manner; cruelly.

To report; to bruit.

In a rude or violent manner.

Brutality.

To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize.

Browsing.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.

The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.

Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies.

One versed in bryology.

That part of botany which relates to mosses.

A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and Bryonia dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic.