Chapter 202

Brunt (?) , n. [OE. brunt , bront , fr. Icel. bruna to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. Burn , v. t. ] 1. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle .

2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of cannon ball."

Hudibras.

It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor.

Brush <Xpage=186>

Brush (?) , n. [OE. brusche , OF. broche , broce , brosse , brushwood, F. brosse brush, LL. brustia , bruscia , fr. OHG. brusta , brust , bristle, G. borste bristle, b\'81rste brush. See Bristle , n. , and cf. Browse .] 1. An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush , paint brush , tooth brush , etc.

2. The bushy tail of a fox.

3. (Zo\'94l.) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

4. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.

5. A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.

6. (Elec.) A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.

7. The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush ; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed .

[As leaves] have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughts. Shak.

8. A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy .

Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong, And tempt not yet the brushes of the war. Shak.

9. A short contest, or trial, of speed.

Let us enjoy a brush across the country. Cornhill Mag.

Electrical brush , a form of the electric discharge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body.

Brush <Xpage=186>

Brush , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brushed (#) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Brushing .] [OE. bruschen ; cf. F. brosser . See Brush , n. ] 1. To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush. "A' brushes his hat o' mornings."

Shak.

2. To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.

Some spread their sailes, some with strong oars sweep The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave. Fairfax.

Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings. Milton.

3. To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off .

As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen. Shak.

And from the boughts brush off the evil dew. Milton.

To brush aside , to remove from one's way, as with a brush. -- To brush away , to remove, as with a brush or brushing motion. -- To brush up , to paint, or make clean or bright with a brush; to cleanse or improve; to renew.

You have commissioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbors. Pope.

Brush <Xpage=186>

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

Snatching his hat, he brushed off like the wind. Goldsmith.

Brusher <Xpage=186>

Brush"er (?) , n. One who, or that which, brushes.

Brushiness <Xpage=186>

Brush"i*ness (?) , n. The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess.

Dr. H. More.

Brushing <Xpage=186>

Brush"ing , a. 1. Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.

2. Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop .

Brushite <Xpage=186>

Brush"ite (?) , n. [From George J. Brush , an American mineralogist.] (Min.) A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.

Brush turkey <Xpage=186>

Brush" tur`key (?) . (Zo\'94l.) A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia ( Talegalla Lathami ) of the family Megapodid\'91 . Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.

&hand; The brush turkeys live in the "brush," and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap of decaying vegetable matter, which generates heat sufficient to hatch the numerous eggs (sometimes half a bushel) deposited in it by the females of the flock.

Brush wheel <Xpage=186>

Brush" wheel` (?) . 1. A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference.

2. A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing.

Brushwood <Xpage=186>

Brush"wood (?) , n. 1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

2. Small branches of trees cut off.

Brushy <Xpage=186>

Brush"y , a. Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

Brusk <Xpage=186>

Brusk (?) , a. Same as Brusque .

Brusque <Xpage=186>

Brusque (?) , a. [F. brusque , from It. brusco brusque, tart, sour, perh. fr. L. ( vitis ) labrusca wild (vine); or cf. OHG. bruttisc grim, fr. brutti terror.] Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; hluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.

Brusqueness <Xpage=186>

Brusque"ness , n. Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; blutness.

Brit. Quar.

Brussels <Xpage=186>

Brus"sels (?) , n. A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.

Brussels carpet , a kind of carpet made of worsted yarn fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread. The worsted, which alone shows on the upper surface in drawn up in loops to form the pattern. -- Brussels ground , a name given to the handmade ground of real Brussels lace. It is very costly because of the extreme fineness of the threads. -- Brussels lace , an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground. -- Brussels net , an imitation of Brussels ground, made by machinery. -- Brussels point . See Point lace . -- Brussels sprouts (Bot.) , a plant of the Cabbage family, which produces, in the axils of the upright stem, numerous small green heads, or "sprouts," each a cabbage in miniature, of one or two inches in diameter; the thousand-headed cabbage. -- Brussels wire ground , a ground for lace, made of silk, with meshes partly straight and partly arched.

Brustle <Xpage=186>

Brus"tle (?) , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Brustled (#) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Brustling (#) .] [OE. brustlien and brastlien , AS. brastlian , fr. berstan to burst, akin to G. prasseln to crackle. See Burst , v. i. ] 1. To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment. [Obs.]

Gower.

2. To make a show of fireceness or defiance; to bristle. [Obs.]

To brustle up , to bristle up. [Obs.]

Otway.

Brustle <Xpage=186>

Brus"tle , n. A bristle. [Obs. or Prov.]

Chaucer.

Brut <Xpage=186>

Brut (?) , v. i. [F. brouter , OF. brouster . See Browse , n. ] To browse. [Obs.]

Evelyn.

Brut <Xpage=186>

Brut , n. (Zo\'94l.) See Birt .

Bruta <Xpage=186>

Bru"ta (?) , n. [NL., neuter pl., fr. L. brutus heavy, stupid.] (Zo\'94l.) See Edentata .

Brutal <Xpage=186>

Bru"tal (?) , a. [Cf. F. brutal . See Brute , a. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature . "Above the rest of brutal kind."

Milton.

2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners . " Brutal intemperance."

Macaulay.

Brutalism <Xpage=186>

Bru"tal*ism (?) , n. Brutish quality; brutality.

Brutality <Xpage=186>

Bru*tal"i*ty (?) , n. ; pl. Brutalities (#) . [Cf. F. brutalit\'82 .] 1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

2. An inhuman act.

The . . . brutalities exercised in war. Brougham.

Brutalization <Xpage=186>

Bru`tal*i*za"tion (?) , n. The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

Brutalize <Xpage=186>

Bru"tal*ize (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brutalized (#) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Brutalizing .] [Cf. F. brutaliser .] To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

Brutalize <Xpage=186>

Bru"tal*ize , v. i. To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty. [R.]

He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habits and manners. Addison.

Brutally <Xpage=186>

Bru"tal*ly , adv. In a brutal manner; cruelly.

Brute <Xpage=186>

Brute (?) , a. [F. brut , nasc., brute , fem., raw, rough, rude, brutish, L. brutus stupid, irrational: cf. It. & Sp. bruto .] 1. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.

A creature . . . not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason. Milton.

3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence .

Macaulay.

The influence of capital and mere brute labor. Playfair.

4. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.

A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. Sir W. Scott.

5. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. [R.]

Brute <Xpage=186>

Brute , n. 1. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.

Brutes may be considered as either a\'89ral, terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious. Locke.

2. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.

An ill-natured brute of a husband. Franklin.

Syn. -- See Beast .

Brute <Xpage=186>

Brute , v. t. [For bruit .] To report; to bruit. [Obs.]

Brutely <Xpage=186>

Brute"ly , adv. In a rude or violent manner.

Bruteness <Xpage=186>

Brute"ness , n. 1. Brutality. [Obs.]

Spenser.

2. Insensibility. "The bruteness of nature."

Emerson.

Brutify <Xpage=186>

Bru"ti*fy (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brutified (#) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Brutifying .] [ Brute + -fy : cf. F. brutifier .] To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize.

Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow.

Brutish <Xpage=186>

Bru"tish (?) , a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.

O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt.

Man may . . . render himself brutish , but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor.

Syn. -- Insensible; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal; barbarous; inhuman; ferocious; gross; carnal; sensual; bestial.

-- Bru"tish*ly , adv. -- Bru"tish*ness , n.

Brutism <Xpage=186>

Bru"tism (?) , n. The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.

Bruting <Xpage=186>

Bru"ting (?) , n. Browsing. [Obs.]

Evelyn.

Bryological <Xpage=186>

Bry*o*log"i*cal (?) , a. Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies .

Bryologist <Xpage=186>

Bry*ol"o*gist (?) , n. One versed in bryology.

Bryology <Xpage=186>

Bry*ol"o*gy (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ moss + -logy .] That part of botany which relates to mosses.

Bryonin <Xpage=186>

Bry"o*nin (?) , n. (Chem.) 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.

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Bryony <Xpage=187>

Bry"o*ny (?) , n. [L. bryonia , Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to swell, esp. of plants.] (Bot.) The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia . The root of B. alba ( rough or white bryony ) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.

Black bryony , a plant ( Tamus communis ) so named from its dark glossy leaves and black root; black bindweed.

Bryophyta <Xpage=187>

Bry*oph"y*ta (?) , n. pl. See Cryptogamia .

Bryozoa <Xpage=187>

Bry`o*zo"a (?) , n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. <?/ moss + <?/ animal.] (Zo\'94l.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa .

&hand; They are often coralike in form and appearance, each small cell containing an individual zooid. Other species grow in delicate, flexible, branched forms, resembling moss, whence the name. Some are found in fresh water, but most are marine. The three principal divisions are Ectoprocta , Entoprocta , and Pterobranchia . See Cyclostoma , Chilostoma , and Phylactolema .

Bryozoan <Xpage=187>

Bry`o*zo"an (?) , a. (Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa. -- n. One of the Bryozoa.

Bryozoum <Xpage=187>

Bry`o*zo"um (?) , n. [NL. See Bryozoa .] (Zo\'94l.) An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zo\'d2cia 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\'d2cia , etc.).

Buansuah <Xpage=187>

Bu`an*su"ah (?) , n. [Native name.] (Zo\'94l.) The wild dog of northern India ( Cuon prim\'91vus ), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.

Buat <Xpage=187>

Bu"at (?) , n. [Scot., of uncertain origin.] A lantern; also, the moon. [Scot.]

Sir W. Scott.

Bub <Xpage=187>

Bub (?) , n. Strong malt liquor. [Cant]

Prior.

Bub <Xpage=187>

Bub , n. [Cf. 2d Bubby .] A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy.

Bub <Xpage=187>

Bub , v. t. [Abbrev. from Bubble .] To throw out in bubbles; to bubble. [Obs.]

Sackville.

Bubale <Xpage=187>

Bu"ba*le (?) , n. [Cf. F. bubale . See Buffalo , n. ] (Zo\'94l.) A large antelope ( Alcelaphus bubalis ) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.

Bubaline <Xpage=187>

Bu"ba*line (?) , a. (Zo\'94l.) Resembling a buffalo.

Bubaline antelope (Zo\'94l.) , the bubale.

Bubble <Xpage=187>

Bub"ble (?) , n. [Cf. D. bobbel , Dan. boble , Sw. bubbla . Cf. Blob , n. ] 1. A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble ; bubbles on the surface of a river.

Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. Shak.

2. A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or a\'89rated waters .

3. A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens .

4. A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.

5. The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.

6. Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble .

Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. Shak.

7. A person deceived by an empty project; a gull. [Obs.] "Ganny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble ."

Prior.

Bubble <Xpage=187>

Bub"ble , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bubbled (<?/) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bubbling (<?/) .] [Cf. D. bobbelen , Dan. boble . See Bubble , n. ] 1. To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.

The milk that bubbled in the pail. Tennyson.

2. To run with a gurdling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream .

Pope.

3. To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.

At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not. Tennyson.

Bubbler <Xpage=187>

Bub"bler , v. t. To cheat; to deceive.

She has bubbled him out of his youth. Addison.

The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.

Bubbler <Xpage=187>

Bub"bler (?) , n. 1. One who cheats.

All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers , subscribers, projectors, etc. Pope.

2. (Zo\'94l.) A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.

Bubble shell <Xpage=187>

Bub"ble shell` (?) . (Zo\'94l.) A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.

Bubbling Jock <Xpage=187>

Bub"bling Jock` (?) (Zo\'94l.) The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.

Bubbly <Xpage=187>

Bub"bly (?) , a. Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.

Nash.

Bubby <Xpage=187>

Bub"by (b&ucr;b"b&ycr;) , n. [Cf. Prov. G. b\'81bbi , or It. poppa , Pr. popa , OF. poupe , a woman's breast.] A woman's breast. [Low]