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o called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind). Totten.

A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.

Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.

The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.

S.] Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with. New Eng. Tales.

part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. [Written also brestsummer and bressummer.]

gen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. Melted as breath into the wind. Shak.

A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. Wordsworth.

Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

leeward of the course, when a ship sails large, as to bring the lee side suddenly to the windward, any by laying the sails aback, expose her to danger of upsetting. -- To bring down. (a) To cause to come down. (b) To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks. -- To bring down the house, to cause tremendous appla…

nlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach. To broach to (Naut.), to incline suddenly to windward, so as to lay the sails aback, and expose the vessel to the danger of oversetting.

An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.

One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.

or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen. Shak. And from the boughts brush off the evil dew. Milton. To brush aside, to remove from one's way, as with a brush.…

A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.

A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity. Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. Burke. Fortune's buffets and rewards. Shak.

A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity. He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm. Wirt.

A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery. [Written also bunco.] Bunko steerer, a person employed as a decoy in bunko. [Slang, U.S.]