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Malt liquor; drink brewed. "Some well-spiced brewage." Milton. A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay.

wedding feast; a bridal. See Ale. The man that 's bid to bride-ale, if he ha' cake, And drink enough, he need not fear his stake. B. Jonson.

The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border. The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water. Josh. iii. 15.

To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.

y bring themselves to it. Locke. The nature of the things . . . would not suffer him to think otherwise, how, or whensoever, he is brought to reflect on them. Locke.

A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.

To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually 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 spiri…

The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow. 'T is not your inky brows, your brack silk hair. Shak.

Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation. A creature . . . not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason. Milton.

A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal. Knight.

The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.

A drinking vessel made of horn. [Obs.] And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine. Chaucer.

To bully. [Obs.] She shan't think to bullock and domineer over me. Foote.

A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast. He frothed his bumpers to the brim. Tennyson.

To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.

A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.

but that. And but my noble Moor is true of mind . . . it were enough to put him to ill thinking. Shak.

The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.

vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.

The act or state of declining or sinking. [Obs.] Now was the sun in western cadence low. Milton.