Having short antenn/, as certain insects.

The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism.

A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.

A writer in short hand; a stenographer.

Stenography.

Conciseness of expression; brevity.

A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.

A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.

A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins.

Having short wings.

A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.

abnormal shortness of fingers and toes.

Of a short form.

A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

One of the Brachyura.

Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the Brachyura.

The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.

Salt or brackish water.

A brake or fern.

To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.

A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.

Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.

Brackish.

A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises. Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.

A bract.

Having the nature or appearance of a bract.

Having a bract or bracts.

Furnished with bracts.

Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

Same as Bractlet.

Destitute of bracts.

A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.

A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.

Same as Bridoon.

a hypotensive tissue hormone (C50H73N15O11) which acts on smooth muscle, dilates peripheral vessels and increases capillary permeability. It is formed locally in injured tissue and is believed to play a role in the inflammatory process. It is a nonapeptide with the sequence: Arg-Pro-Pro-Gly-Phe-Ser-Pro-Phe-Arg.

a natural family comprising the true sloths.

type genus of the Bradypodidae, comprising the three-toed sloths.

A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.

Proudly; boastfully.

the Norse god of poetry and music; a son of Odin.

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.

Boastfulness; act of bragging.

Boastful.

One who brags; a boaster.

A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc.

Boastingly.

the Norse god of poetry and music; a son of Odin.

Without bragging.

In a manner to be bragged of; finely; proudly.

The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindu gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.

A Brahmani.

Any Brahman woman.

A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindus.

The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma.

An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.

A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindus.

The religious system of Brahmo-somaj.

a famous German composer, b. 1833, d. 1897.

Deceitful.

The act of making or using braids.

To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.

A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters and numerals are represented by patterns of raised tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind.

to transcribe in Braille.

a difficult problem.

the part of the skull that encloses the brain.

a product of one's creative thinking and work; as, the project was the brainchild of the director.

Supplied with brains.

Hot-headed; furious.

Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.

The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.

mental ability; intellectual acuity.

Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.

In a brainsick manner.

to try to solve a problem by discussing it exhaustively in an intense group meeting encouraging uninhibited and spontaneous contributions from all members.

to persuade completely; as, the propaganda brainwashed many people.

subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones.

the process of forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs.

rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the brain.

Having an active or vigorous mind.

To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan.

A kettle or pan for braising.

A rough diamond.

See Braise.

Charcoal powder; breeze.

An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

the combination of interacting parts that work to slow a moving vehicle.

Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.

wearing no brassiere.

See Brahma.

Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.

Overgrown with brambles.

The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.

Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles.

Sharp passion; vexation.

The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

See Brand-new.

A litter on which a person may be carried.

To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.

resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; as, long branched hairs on its legs, on which pollen collects.

That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.

A system of branches.

A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.

Of or pertaining to branchi/ or gills.

Furnished with branchi/; as, branchiate segments.

Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

Fullness of branches.

The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch.

Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchi/, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.

The state of being made up of branchiate segments.

One of the Branchiopoda.

An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.

Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes. A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.

Branchiostegal.

The lancelet. See Amphioxus.

A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).

Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.

A little branch; a twig.

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.

To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict).