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ng muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm. Brawn without brains is thine. Dryden. It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. E. Hall. And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. Shak.

aking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. Shak.

A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

Dead; as, a breathless body.

The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.

ngs of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.

A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.

A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages. [Written also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.…

ll in a deliberative assembly. (c) To return or repot to, or lay before, a court or other body; to render; as, to bring in a verdict or a report. (d) To take to an appointed place of deposit or collection; as, to bring in provisions or money for a specified object. (e) To produce, as income. (f) To induce to join. --…

The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.

to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises. Isa. i. 6.

t life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.

ge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body.

A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aërated waters.

pes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.

o a similar statement in other countries. To open the budget, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government.

A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.

The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt. The bulk of the people must labor, Burke told them, "to obtain what by labor can be obtained." J. Morley.

One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in. Totten.