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A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides. [Slang]

An instrument for making such tracings, as a recording brontometer.

Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.

Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed.

d spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [Scot.]

Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting. [Colloq.]

(Anat.) A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube.

k, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape that any desired quantity may be taken or sold. -- Laden in bulk, Stowed in bulk, having the cargo loose in the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks. -- Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without wei…

One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5. Bull baiting, the practice of baiting bulls, or rendering them furious, as by setting dogs to attack them. -- John Bull, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. "Good-lo…

in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.

hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced. Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. Eng. Cyc.

The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.

und, a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of buriials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies. -- Burial place, any place where burials are made. -- Burial service. (a) The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funeral service. (b) That portion of a liturgy which is…

as, to burke a parliamentary question. The court could not burke an inquiry, supported by such a mass of a affidavits. C. Reade.

An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.

tached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute Burke.

limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpecedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc. Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. Milton. And now you burst (ah cruel!) from my arms. Pope. A resolved villa…

amidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.

les, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly. I will buzz abroad such prophecies That Edward shall be fearful of his life. Shak.

The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.