| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| brabble | verb i. | To clamor; to contest noisily., A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle. |
| bracing | present participle & vb. noun | of Brace, Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind., The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced., Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss. |
| brachia | noun pl. | See Brachium. |
| bracken | noun | A brake or fern. |
| bracket | noun | An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office., A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles., A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support., The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage., One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; — called also crotchet., A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like., To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets. |
| bractea | noun | A bract. |
| bracted | adjective | Furnished with bracts. |
| bradoon | noun | Same as Bridoon. |
| bragged | imp. & past participle | of Brag |
| bragger | noun | One who brags; a boaster. |
| bragget | noun | A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc. |
| brahman | noun | Alt. of Brahmin |
| brahmin | noun | A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos. |
| braided | imp. &. past participle | of Braid |
| brained | imp. & past participle | of Brain, Supplied with brains. |
| braiser | noun | A kettle or pan for braising. |
| bramble | noun | Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub., The brambling or bramble finch. |
| brambly | adjective | Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. |
| branchy | adjective | Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. |
| branded | imp. & past participle | of Brand |
| brander | noun | One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron., A gridiron. |
| brandle | verb t. & i. | To shake; to totter. |
| brangle | noun | A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute., To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble. |
| branlin | noun | A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron., A small red worm or larva, used as bait for small fresh-water fish; — so called from its red color. |
| bransle | noun | A brawl or dance. |
| brasier | noun | Alt. of Brazier, Alt. of Brazier |
| brazier | noun | An artificer who works in brass., A pan for holding burning coals., Same as Brasier. |
| brasses | plural | of Brass |
| bravade | noun | Bravado. |
| bravado | noun | Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace. |
| braving | present participle & vb. noun | of Brave, A bravado; a boast. |
| bravely | adverb | In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly., Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily., Well; thrivingly; prosperously. |
| bravery | noun | The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity., The act of braving; defiance; bravado., Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation; fine dress., A showy person; a fine gentleman; a beau. |
| bravoes | plural | of Bravo |
| bravura | noun | A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer’s voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music. |
| brawled | imp. & past participle | of Brawl |
| brawler | noun | One that brawls; wrangler. |
| brawned | adjective | Brawny; strong; muscular. |
| brawner | noun | A boor killed for the table. |
| braying | present participle & vb. noun | of Bray, Making a harsh noise; blaring. |
| brazing | present participle & vb. noun | of Braze |
| breachy | adjective | Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle. |
| breaded | adjective | Braided |
| breaden | adjective | Made of bread. |
| breadth | adjective | Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. |
| breaker | noun | One who, or that which, breaks., Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed., A small water cask., A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. |
| breamed | imp. & past participle | of Bream |
| breathe | verb i. | To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live., To take breath; to rest from action., To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently., To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire., To inject by breathing; to infuse; — with into., To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow., To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes., To express; to manifest; to give forth., To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing., To promote free respiration in; to exercise., To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse., To put out of breath; to exhaust., To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants. |
| breccia | noun | A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors. |
| breeder | noun | One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc., A cause. |
| brusten | past participle | of Breste |
| bretful | adjective | Brimful. |
| bretzel | noun | See Pretzel. |
| brevier | noun | A size of type between bourgeois and minion. |
| brevity | noun | Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life., Contraction into few words; conciseness. |
| brewing | present participle & vb. noun | of Brew, The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale., The quantity brewed at once., A mixing together., A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds. |
| brewage | noun | Malt liquor; drink brewed. |
| brewery | noun | A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on. |
| bribing | present participle & vb. noun | of Bribe |
| bribery | noun | Robbery; extortion., The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements. |
| bricked | imp. & past participle | of Brick, of Brisk |
| brickle | adjective | Brittle; easily broken. |
| bricole | noun | A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used. |
| bridged | imp. & past participle | of Bridge |
| bridgey | adjective | Full of bridges. |
| bridled | imp. & past participle | of Bridle |
| bridler | noun | One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle. |
| bridoon | noun | The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein. |
| briefly | adverb | Concisely; in few words. |
| briered | adjective | Set with briers. |
| brigade | noun | A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general., Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade., To form into a brigade, or into brigades. |
| brigand | noun | A light-armed, irregular foot soldier., A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. |
| brigose | noun | Contentious; quarrelsome. |
| brimmed | imp. & past participle | of Brim, Having a brim; — usually in composition., Full to, or level with, the brim. |
| brimful | adjective | Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow. |
| brimmer | noun | A brimful bowl; a bumper. |
| brinded | adjective | Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled. |
| brindle | noun | The state of being brindled., A brindled color; also, that which is brindled., Brindled. |
| brought | imp. & past participle | of Bring |
| bringer | noun | One who brings. |
| brinish | adjective | Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish. |
| brisket | noun | That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest. |
| briskly | adverb | In a brisk manner; nimbly. |
| bristle | noun | A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine., A stiff, sharp, roundish hair., To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; — sometimes with up., To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread., To rise or stand erect, like bristles., To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles., To show defiance or indignation. |
| bristly | adjective | Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. |
| bristol | noun | A seaport city in the west of England. |
| brisure | noun | Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction., A mark of cadency or difference. |
| british | adjective | Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; — sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants., People of Great Britain. |
| brittle | adjective | Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious. |
| broaden | adjective | To grow broad; to become broader or wider., To make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive. |
| broadly | adverb | In a broad manner. |
| brocade | noun | Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; — also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched. |
| brocage | noun | See Brokkerage. |
| brocard | noun | An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics. |
| brocket | noun | A male red deer two years old; — sometimes called brock., A small South American deer, of several species (Coassus superciliaris, C. rufus, and C. auritus). |
| broggle | noun | To sniggle, or fish with a brog. |
| brogues | noun pl. | Breeches. |
| broider | verb t. | To embroider. |
| broiled | imp. & past participle | of Broil |
| broiler | noun | One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels., One who broils, or cooks by broiling., A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling., A chicken or other bird fit for broiling. |
| brokage | noun | See Brokerage. |
| brokery | noun | The business of a broker. |
| broking | adjective | Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage. |
| bromate | noun | A salt of bromic acid., To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor. |
| bromide | noun | A compound of bromine with a positive radical. |
| bromine | noun | One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite. |
| bromism | noun | A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness. |
| bromize | verb t. | To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate. |
| bronchi | noun pl. | See Bronchus., of Bronchus |
| broncho | noun | A native or a Mexican horse of small size. |
| bronzed | imp. & past participle | of Bronze |
| brooded | imp. & past participle | of Brood |
| brooked | imp. & past participle | of Brook |
| brothel | noun | A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse. |
| brother | noun | A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood., One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; — used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc., One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character., To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood. |
| brouded | p.adjective | Braided; broidered. |
| browned | imp. & past participle | of Brown |
| brownie | noun | An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. |
| browsed | imp. & past participle | of Browse |
| browser | noun | An animal that browses. |
| brucine | noun | 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. |
| brucite | noun | A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate., The mineral chondrodite. |
| bruised | imp. & past participle | of Bruise |
| bruiser | noun | One who, or that which, bruises., A boxer; a pugilist., A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes. |
| bruited | imp. & past participle | of Bruit |
| brumous | adjective | Foggy; misty. |
| brunion | noun | A nectarine. |
| brushed | imp. & past participle | of Brush |
| brusher | noun | One who, or that which, brushes. |
| brusque | adjective | Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style. |
| brustle | verb i. | To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment., To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle., A bristle. |
| brutely | adverb | In a rude or violent manner. |
| brutify | verb t. | To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. |
| brutish | adjective | Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. |
| brutism | noun | The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity. |
| bruting | noun | Browsing. |
| bryonin | noun | A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic. |
| bryozoa | noun pl. | A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; — called also Polyzoa. |