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Boyhood. [Obs.] T. Warton.

The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.

Boastfulness; act of bragging. Shak.

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

The religious system of Brahmo-somaj. Balfour.

The state of being made up of branchiate segments. R. Wiedersheim.

Brigandage.

A word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Great Britain; any manner of using a word or words that is peculiar to Great Britain.

A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.

Poisoning induced by large doses of bromine and iodine or of their compounds.

The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton.

Brutish quality; brutality.

The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.

The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo 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 ha…

The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.

The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.

The secret science of the cabalists.

person, to whom, as Cæsar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government.

A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P. P. Cahensly, a member of the German parliament, to divide the foreign-born population of the United States, for ecclesiastical purposes, according to European nationalities, and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the me…

The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches.