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ength, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward to a…

Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle.

rope; as the boughts of a serpent. [Obs.] Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne.

A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.

Without pity. Sir T. Browne.

A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.…

ounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny. In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne.

Overgrown with brambles. Forlorn she sits upon the brambled floor. T. Warton.

A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.

Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne.

A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.

single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant. He smiles and he frowns in a breath. Dryden.

To burn. [Obs.] Chaucer. Consuming fire brent his shearing house or stall. W. Browne.

or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restrict to the original inhabitants. British gum, a brownish substance, very soluble in cold water, formed by heating dry starch at a temperature of about 600° Fahr. It corresponds, in its properties, to dextrin, and is used, in solution, as a substitute for gum in stiffering goods.…

A spit. [Obs.] He turned a broach that had worn a crown. Bacon.

g to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage. [Obs.] Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown. Shak.

al qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.…

A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.

as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill. To bend the brow, To knit the brows, to frown; to scowl.

Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem. Shak.