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A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

isconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. W. Irving.

A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda. [India]

h affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.

A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.

Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.

dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness. Brande & C.

A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. [Written also cady.] Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie. Macaulay.

A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.

or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. "A cankered grandam's will." Shak.

A grand division of birds, including all existing flying birds; -- So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone.

rve out, to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage." Shak. Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. Macaulay.

The warping of a board. Brande & C.

The use or application of a caustic; cautery. Ferrand.

by peculiar or notable traits; a person who illustrates certain phases of character; as, Randolph was a character; Cæsar is a great historical character.

A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.

; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries. -- Cherry bounce, cherry brandy and sugar. -- Cherry brandy, brandy in which cherries have been steeped. -- Cherry laurel (Bot.), an evergren shrub (Prunus Lauro-cerasus) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bit…

Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.

e Sage family, used in flavoring soups. Clary water, a composition of clary flowers with brandy, etc., formerly used as a cardiac.

is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote. Brande & C. He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college. Macaulay.