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The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar. The best age for the boar is from two to five years, at which time it is best to geld him, or sell him for brawn. Mortimer.

The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound. The bray and roar of multitudinous London. Jerrold.

f the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.

The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top. Arrange the board and brim the glass. Tennyson.

A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.

A seaport city in the west of England. Bristol board, a kind of fine pasteboard, made with a smooth but usually unglazed surface. -- Bristol brick, a brick of siliceous matter used for polishing cultery; -- originally manufactured at Bristol. -- Bristol stone, rock crystal, or brilliant crystals of quartz, found in t…

To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. [Scot. & North of Eng.]

Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.

A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.

The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.

A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.

A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue.

A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.

arly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children. The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth.

imonite. -- Brown holland. See under Holland. -- Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials. -- Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. -- Brown stone. See Brownstone. -- Brown stout, a strong kind of proter or malt liquo…

(S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.

ing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush. Some spread their sailes, some with strong oars sweep The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave. Fairfax. Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings. Milton.

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

Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent. A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. Sir W. Scott.