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A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.…

A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.

A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes. His jacket was red, and his breeches were blue. Coleridge.

The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle. Knight.

The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill. Knight.

A brocket. Bailey.

a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket. -- Spanish broom. See under Spanish.

own as the oak leaves. Longfellow. Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. -- Brown bread (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham bread. "He would mouth with a beggar thoug…

A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.

Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

A drinking vessel made of horn. [Obs.] And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine. Chaucer.

To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.

ssile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.

A sharper or pickpocket. [Obs. & Low] You filthy bung, away. Shak.

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.

A thicket; a cluster of bushes. [Obs.] Raleigh.

My lord delayeth his coming; . . . the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him. Luke xii. 45, 46. But if, unless. [Obs.] Chaucer. But this I read, that but if remedy Thou her afford, full shortly I her dead shall see. Spenser.

One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.