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Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding. I am much bounden to your majesty. Shak.

ncing bout; a drinking bout. The gentleman will, for his honor's sake, have one bout with you; he can not by the duello avoid it. Shak.

To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,; Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave. Shak.

A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [Obs.]

bishops, both eminent for learning and religion, now appeared in the church. Fuller. But you, my brace of lords. Shak.

ll and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited. [Arhaic] A brag young fellow. B. Jonson.

wine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton.

e stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family. His father, a younger branch of the ancient stock. Carew.

A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.

A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.

n made of copper, brass, or bronze. [Obs.] Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip for your journey. Matt. x. 9.

The young of an animal. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

being brave; fearless; intrepidity. Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. Shak.

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

e of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mammma; a teat. My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1.

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

nto, or clothe with, breeches. A great man . . . anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched. Macaulay.

To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; 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.

Descent; pedigree; extraction. [Obs.] Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding. Shak. Close breeding, In and in breeding, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage. -- Cross breeding, breeding from a male and female of different lineage. -- Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment.…