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That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle.

A French gambling game somewhat like poker.

Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.

Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust. [R.] Spenser.

A dress fabric having a glossy finish on both sides, resembling alpaca but of superior quality.

Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous. B. Jonson.

Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.

THick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. Bacon.

A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The "curd," or flowering head, is the part used for food.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.

A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin. [Spelt also brompikrin.]

Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.

Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom. If land grow mossy or broomy. Mortimer.

To make brown or dusky. A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. Barlow.

The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.

Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Tay…

Resembling a buffalo. Bubaline antelope (Zoöl.), the bubale.

To run with a gurdling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream. Pope.

Abounding in bubbles; bubbling. Nash.