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iolence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. She comes booming down before it. Totten.

Caused by boscage. Darkened over by long bosky shadows. H. James.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,; Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave. Shak.

or cricket ball. Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. Shak.

efiance; bravado. [Obs.] Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; And so in this, to bear me down with braves. Shak.

To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow. I'll rather leap down first, and break your fall. Dryden.

t of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. [Written also brestsummer and bressummer.]

A breach; ruin; downfall; peril. [Obs.] Chaucer.

windward, any by laying the sails aback, expose her to danger of upsetting. -- To bring down. (a) To cause to come down. (b) To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks. -- To bring down the house, to cause tremendous applause. [Colloq.] -- To bring forth. (a) To produce, as young fruit. (b) To bring to light;…

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. Knight.

all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson.

Braided; broidered. [Obs.] Alle his clothes brouded up and down. Chaucer.

To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, 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.

The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.

The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.

penser. Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed. Dryden.

A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.

g with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.

A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat. [Scot.] Jamieson.