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paration into branches; division into branches; a division or branch. The sciences, with their numerous branchings. L. Watts.

called from its glittering or flashing brightness. [Poetic] Tennyson. Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand. Milton.

o burst. [Obs.] And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.

Well-dressed; handsome; smart; brave; -- used of persons or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. "A braw new gown." Burns.

reak one's sleep; to break one's journey. Go, release them, Ariel; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore. Shak.

a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.

The power of respiration, and hence, life. Hood. Thou takest away their breath, they die. Ps. civ. 29.

To cover as with breeches. [Poetic] Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore. Shak.

To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.] Children would breed their teeth with less danger. Locke.

of the family Tabanidæ, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two- winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also breese and brize.]

A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.

hat one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes. Brande & C.

Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.

Broth or pottage. [Obs.] Let them of their Bonner's "beef" and "broth" make what brewis they please for their credulous guests. Bp. Hall.

A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man." Sir W. Scott.

ight angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.

commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.

Tears; -- so called from their saltness. What a deal of brine Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for Rosaline! Shak. Brine fly (Zoöl.), a fly of the genus Ephydra, the larvæ of which live in artificial brines and in salt lakes. -- Brine gauge, an instrument for measuring the saltness of a liquid. -- Brine pan, a pit or p…

aulay. Broken ground. (a) (Mil.) Rough or uneven ground; as, the troops were retarded in their advance by broken ground. (b) Ground recently opened with the plow. -- Broken line (Geom.), the straight lines which join a number of given points taken in some specified order. -- Broken meat, fragments of meat or other fo…

Poisoning induced by large doses of bromine and iodine or of their compounds.