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To burst. [Obs.] And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.

To furnish with breakfast. Milton.

The front of a furnace.

To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.

A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.

A piece of bric-a-brac, any curious or antique article of virtu, as a piece of antiquated furniture or metal work, or an odd knickknack.

ck called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard.

A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.

A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall. Aqueduct bridge. See Aqueduct. -- Asses' bridge, Bascule bridge, Bateau bridge. See under Ass, Bascule, Bateau. -- Bridge of a steamer (Naut.), a narrow platform across the deck, above the r…

angular branches, mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers. No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth.

instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum.

The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.

lves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.

A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.

Consisting of fur. [Obs.]

rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5. Bull baiting, the practice of baiting bulls, or rendering them furious, as by setting dogs to attack them. -- John Bull, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. "Good-looking young John Bull." W. D.Howells. -- To take the bull by the horns, to grapple with a diff…

A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.

The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. Totten.

The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. Raymond.

biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.