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The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow.

A dress fabric having a glossy finish on both sides, resembling alpaca but of superior quality.

The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.

State or quality of being brinish.

The quality or state of having bristles.

Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive. A broad mixture of falsehood. Locke.

The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.

The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay.

The state or quality of being brotherly.

The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair); Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.

The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.

Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; blutness. Brit. Quar.

Brutish quality; brutality.

The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.

The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.

Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury. "Buoyant on the flood." Pope.

Quality of being burly.

To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever. Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way Luke xxiv. 32.…

The condition or quality of being bushy.