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me to their natural straightness. Milton. The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny. Prescott.

The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. "Thou thing of no bowels." Shak. Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels. Fuller.

A bitch of the hound kind. Shak.

r a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.

A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe.

A kind of fox found in Sweden (Vulpes alopex), smaller than the common fox (V. vulgaris), but probably a variety of it.

A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wright.

C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named.

A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. There's fallen between him and my lord An unkind breach. Shak.

A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.

To raise, as any kind of stock.

The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick. Weale.

A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

A kind of soft French cream cheese; -- so called from the district in France where it is made; --called also fromage de Brie.

An epitome. Each woman is a brief of womankind. Overbury.

A kind of kotton goods, figured on the weaving.

A seaport city in the west of England. Bristol board, a kind of fine pasteboard, made with a smooth but usually unglazed surface. -- Bristol brick, a brick of siliceous matter used for polishing cultery; -- originally manufactured at Bristol. -- Bristol stone, rock crystal, or brilliant crystals of quartz, found in t…

A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.

g who remembered him as he been before his mind was broken. G. Eliot. The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. Goldsmith.