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.

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.

a cowboy, especially used of one who breaks broncos; -- used especially in California.

A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.

A horse or mule that bucks.

To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water.

Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.

A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (/sculus) as the horse chestnut.

A hound for hunting deer.

A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum.

The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.

Dandified; foppish.

To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.

To shield; to defend.

Having a head like a buckler.

Wavy; curling, as hair.

White; white man's; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white yam.

To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.

A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.

The skin of a buck.

A toil or net to take deer.

A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.

Any tooth that juts out.

A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.

A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.

Bucolic.

A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.

To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.

The capital city of Hungary. Population (2000) = 2,008,546.

The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom.

The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindu sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, /the awakened or enlightened,/ in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirv/na) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.

Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.

Same as Buddhist, a.

The act or process of producing buds.

To wash ore in a buddle.

Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.

Sternness; severity.

One who budges.

A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.

A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.

of or pertaining to a budget; as, budgetary considerations.

small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.

Consisting of fur.

A little bud springing from a parent bud.

a genus of mammals comprising the gnu goats.

The capital city of Argentina. Population (2000) = 3,000,000.

Firm; sturdy.

The comic actress in an opera. Comic, farcical.

A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (Bubalus bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

any of several large carplike North American fish.

An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car. A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.

to add a buffer{5} to (a solution), so as to reduce unwanted fluctuation of acidity.

containing a buffer{5}; -- of solutions, usually aqueous solutions.

The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.

a brand of aspirin tablets coated with a substance capable of neutralizing acid (a /buffer/); -- sometimes applied generically to any buffered aspirin preparation.