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Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. The breakers were right beneath her bows. Longfellow.

To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.

r qualities. Are these the breed of wits so wondered at Shak. This courtesy is not of the right breed. Shak.

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

A nuptia; festival or ceremony; a marriage. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky. Herbert.

The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.

Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.

to produce; to draw to. There is nothing will bring you more honor . . . than to do what right in justice you may. Bacon.

The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.

To sniggle, or fish with a brog. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. Ure.

remove, as with a brush or brushing motion. -- To brush up, to paint, or make clean or bright with a brush; to cleanse or improve; to renew. You have commissioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbors. Pope.

sels sprouts (Bot.), a plant of the Cabbage family, which produces, in the axils of the upright stem, numerous small green heads, or "sprouts," each a cabbage in miniature, of one or two inches in diameter; the thousand-headed cabbage. -- Brussels wire ground, a ground for lace, made of silk, with meshes partly straig…

pare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively. Cartwright buckled himself to the employment. Fuller.

, a solid buckler. -- Buckler mustard (Bot.), a genus of plants (Biscutella) with small bright yellow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. -- Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn. -- Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the…

re skin; as, to strip to the buff. [Colloq.] To be in buff is equivalent to being naked. Wright.

gbear; anything which terrifies. [Obs.] Sir, spare your threats: The bug which you would fright me with I seek. Shak.

Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. "Bugaboos to fright ye." Lloyd. But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate. Pope. The bugaboo of…

Causing needless fright. Locke.