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ertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus). [R.] The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden.

The nature of a boy; childishness. Dryden.

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. Hot braves like thee may fight. Dryden.

protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm. Brawn without brains is thine. Dryden. It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. E. Hall. And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. Shak.

tter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass. Laugh, and they Return it louder than an ass can bray. Dryden.

lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow. I'll rather leap down first, and break your fall. Dryden.

A meal after fasting, or food in general. The wolves will get a breakfast by my death. Dryden.

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

ocess of respiration; to respire. To view the light of heaven, and breathe the vital air. Dryden.

Breathing place; vent. Dryden.

uth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. Dryden. Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. Everett.

Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow. "Her brimful eyes." Dryden.

gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled. "Three brinded cows," Dryden. "The brinded cat." Shak.

ng of salt water. -- Leach brine (Saltmaking), brine which drops from granulated salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again.

bitants. British gum, a brownish substance, very soluble in cold water, formed by heating dry starch at a temperature of about 600° Fahr. It corresponds, in its properties, to dextrin, and is used, in solution, as a substitute for gum in stiffering goods. -- British lion, the national emblem of Great Britain. -- Brit…

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

Designating or pertaining to, a process of preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin.

lly followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes. Brooding on unprofitable gold. Dryden. Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson.

ep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed. Dryden.