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Making a fine show or display. [Archaic] Wear my dagger with the braver grace. Shak. For I have gold, and therefore will be brave. In silks I'll rattle it of every color. Robert Greene. Frog and lizard in holiday coats And turtle brave in his golden spots. Emerson.

Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp.

Making a harsh noise; blaring. "Braying trumpets." Shak.

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.

To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.

A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.

The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.

The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.

Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.

A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant. He smiles and he frowns in a breath. Dryden.

a lady that wants breathing too; And I have heard, you knights of Tyre Are excellent in making ladies trip. Shak.

ed to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim.

Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.

Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission.

A brief and pertinent mode of speaking. [R.]

To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer. I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour. Shak.

The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements. Bribery oath, an oath taken by a person that he has not been bribed as to voting. [Eng.]

To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.

ves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.