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Relating to the brain; cerebral. I. Taylor.

Steep; high. [Obs.] Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them. Ascham.

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

One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.

An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.

With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.

Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory.

A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.

Belonging to the Carangidæ, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish.

A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or goldon mackerel.

A telephone transmitter in which a carbon contact is used.

The Brazilian kite (Polyborus Brasiliensis); -- so called in imitation of its notes.

Sir Sidney Smith for destroying the French flotilla at Boulogne, 1804, were called catamarans. Knight.

A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A cauterizing substance.

One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.

A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.

Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

An ornamental bordering or framelike decoration around the sides and top of a door, window, or fireplace. The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants.

A yellow crystalline substance, C6Cl4.O2, regarded as a derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline.