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A writer in short hand; a stenographer. He asked the brachygrapher whether he wrote the notes of the sermon. Gayton.

That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.

A system of branches.

One who brandishes.

One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.

An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp. one in the British military or naval service. [Now used jocosely]

A spit; a broach. On five sharp broachers ranked, the roast they turned. Dryden.

A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood. Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother. Wordsworth.

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.

The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.

The state of being brothers or a brother.

The state or quality of being brotherly.

Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.

One who, or that which, brushes.

"the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.

See Burgomaster.

The state or privileges of a burgher.

One who burnishes.

umbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. "Butcher of an innocent child." Shak. Butcher bird (Zoöl.), a species of shrike of the genus Lanius.