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The whole collection or lot; caboodle. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett.

The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.

Goodness; generosity. [Obs.] Spenser.

The wood of the box (Buxus).

The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy. Hood.

One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.

One of the Branchiopoda.

An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broa…

The wood of the oriental Cæsalpinia Sapan; -- so called before the discovery of America.

A buskin or half-boot. [Written also brodequin.] [Obs.]

Poisoning induced by large doses of bromine and iodine or of their compounds.

Treated with bromides and iodides.

The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chicken. As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings. Luke xiii. 34. A hen followed by a brood of ducks. Spectator.

Inclined to brood. Ray.

The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.

Srubs and bushes upon which animals browse.

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

A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.