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An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward. Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. Sir W. Scott.

d, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son. My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. Sir W. Scott.

A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

ast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament. Shak.

One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.

To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss. I see a great officer broken. Swift.

To put into, or clothe with, breeches. A great man . . . anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched. Macaulay.

One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. She was a great breeder. Dr. A. Carlyle. Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men. Ascham.

The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail.

uyt. The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus.

The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow.

Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.

A word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Great Britain; any manner of using a word or words that is peculiar to Great Britain.

Of or pertaining to Great Britain 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 subst…

An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp. one in the British military or naval service. [Now used jocosely]

A native of Great Britain.

The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or state.

To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.

y adding phosphorus and silicon respectively to ordinary bronze, and are characterized by great tenacity.

or traits of character. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. That April morn Of this the very brother. Wordsworth.