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The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

ethren, both bishops, both eminent for learning and religion, now appeared in the church. Fuller. But you, my brace of lords. Shak.

g to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament. Shak.…

Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny. In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne.

Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. "In brambly wildernesses." Tennyson.

Fullness of branches.

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.

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

Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm. Brawn without brains is thine. Dryden. It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. E. Hall. And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. Shak.…

Angina. -- To make a clean breast, to disclose the secrets which weigh upon one; to make full confession.

Full of breath; full of odor; fragrant. [Obs.]

Fresh; brisk; full of life. [Colloq.]

Steep; high. [Obs.] Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them. Ascham.

Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust. [R.] Spenser.

Full of bridges. [R.] Sherwood.

Full of briers; thorny.

To be full to the brim. "The brimming stream." Milton. To brim over (literally or figuratively), to be so full that some of the contents flows over the brim; as, cup brimming over with wine; a man brimming over with fun.

Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow. "Her brimful eyes." Dryden.

Full to, or level with, the brim. Milton.

Full to the brim; overflowing.