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An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.

combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.

Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub. The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes. Shak.

nd one's discourse to other topics than the main one; also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc. To branch out into a long disputation. Spectator.

To fall in business; to become bankrupt. He that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes break, and come to poverty. Bacn.

To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer. I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour. Shak.

nly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.

A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.

An old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a Carolus or Jacobus.

A volley of abuse or denunciation. [Colloq.]

al rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics. The legal brocard, "Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus," is a rule not more applicable to other witness than to consciousness. Sir W. Hamilton.

A buskin or half-boot. [Written also brodequin.] [Obs.]

To transact business for another. [R.] Brome.

One who transacts business for another; an agent.

The business or employment of a broker. Burke.

The business of a broker. [Obs.] And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.

A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze. A print, a bronze, a flower, a root. Prior.

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

, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. W. Irving.