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With a sudden leap; suddenly. This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me. Bickerstaff.

bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness. Milton. The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny. Prescott.

; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves. And welcome war to brace her drums. Campbell.

cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.

steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.

or murderer. Safe from detection, seize the unwary prey. And stab, like bravoes, all who come this way. Churchill.

f Cæsalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An interior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named.

To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.

To grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful. And night shall brighten into day. N. Cotton. And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere world be past. Goldsmith.

To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to. There is nothing will bring you more honor . . . than to do what right in justice you may. Bacon.

One who brings. Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office. Shak. Bringer in, one who, or that which, introduces.

To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.

To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops. [Prov. Eng.]

To grow broad; to become broader or wider. The broadening sun appears. Wordsworth.

er the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat. The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun. Cheyne.

To become brown.

To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty. [R.] He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habits and manners. Addison.

To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.

a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.

To come in violent contact with something; to thump. "Bumping and jumping." Southey.