The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
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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.
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.
The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of Bryonia alba (rough bryony or white bryony) and of Bryonia dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.
See Cryptogamia.
any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta.
of or pertaining to bryophytes.
the class of plants comprising the true mosses, having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes; it comprises the orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; and Sphagnales.
A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.
Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa. One of the Bryozoa.
An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zo/cia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, O/cia, etc.).
The wild dog of northern India (Cuon prim/vus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.
A lantern; also, the moon.
To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.
A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.
Resembling a buffalo.
a genus of ruminants which in some classification systems is included in the genus Bos; the water buffaloes.
To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
One who cheats.
giving off bubbles; -- of a liquid.
Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.
Bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.
An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.
Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.
An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.
A red pimple.
Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.
To expose (meat) in strips to fire and smoke upon a buccan.
To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
Like a buccaneer; piratical.
Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinid/, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.
A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (Buccinum undatum).
A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.
The celebrated war horse of Alexander the Great.
A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.
The capital city of Romania. Population (2000) = 2,351,000.
a genus of grasses comprising buffalo grass.
Same as Fibrolite.
A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.
The beech tree.
A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.
Having bad or speckled eyes.
A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.
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