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Stenograhy. B. Jonson.

Conciseness of expression; brevity.

horhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.

A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.

A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins.

Having short wings.

A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.

Of a short form.

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

Of or pertaining to the Brachyura.

One of the Brachyura.

A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet''ic.

Of or pertaining to the antibrachium, or forearm.

That part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm.

Between the arms.

Having tentacles without vibratile cilia. Carpenter.

A genus of ctenophores having an ovate body and two long plumose tentacles.

A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspnoea of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar pr…

Of or pertaining to the subbrachians.

A division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.