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spring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense. "This brat is none of mine." Shak. "A beggar's brat." Swift. O Israel! O household of the Lord! O Abraham's brats! O brood of blessed seed! Gascoigne.

The tenor viola, or viola.

A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.

See Brattice, n.

Short-billed; having a short beak.

See Buffer, 1.

The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called.

An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. C. Kingsley.

Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.

An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.

A salt of butyric acid.

To curl or friz, as the hair. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

The act or process of curling the hair. [Obs.] burton.

Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred. Gray.

To kick.

Act of kicking.

To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.

The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.

To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.

A vaulting or arching over. [R.]