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A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music. Aria di bravura ( Etym: [It.], a florid air demanding brilliant execution.

crystalline substance which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies. [Written also brezilin.]

An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. All modern trash is Set forth with numerous breaks and dashes. Swift.

front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. [Written also brestsummer and bressummer.]

o- winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also breese and brize.]

An ancient Irish or Scotch judge. Brehon laws, the ancient Irish laws, -- unwritten, like the common law of England. They were abolished by statute of Edward III.

Famous; renowned; well known. Wright. [Written also brim and brimme.]

Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.

A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words. Bear this sealed brief, With winged hastle, to the lord marshal. Shak. And she told me In a sweet, verbal brief. Shak.

The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.

enerally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages. [Written also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.

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

owers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.]

turers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [Written also bucanier.]

se shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc. [Written also boule, boulework.]

A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones. [Written also burrstone.]

, of the family Timaliidæ. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera. [Written also buhlbuhl.]

A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief. A fresh bull of Leo's had declared how inflexible the court of Rome was in the point of abuses. A…

A writer or drawer up of papal bulls. [R.] Harmar.

led brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen. [Written also boomkin.]