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The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.

Same as Branlin, fish and worm.

A quarrel. [R.] Whitlock.

A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.

A substance, C16H14O5, extracted from brazilwood as a yellow crystalline powder which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies on exposure to the air, being oxidized to bra*sil"e*in, C16H12O5, to which brazilwood owes its dyeing properties.

Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak.

In a brawling manner.

ntained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies. [Written also brezilin.]

See Brazilin.

The quality or state of having bristles.

Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun. -- n.

A colorless or white crystalline compound, (CH2)6N4C2H5Br, used as a sedative in epilepsy.

The state or quality of being brotherly.

Resembling a buffalo. Bubaline antelope (Zoöl.), the bubale.

The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.

Wavy; curling, as hair. Latham.

See Book muslin.

Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.

Clumsily; awkwardly.

One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in. Totten.