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A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England.

A half brigade.

To brighten. [Obs.]

A small annual plant (Euphrasia officinalis), formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.

Somewhat rigid or stiff.

Watered or wet beneath; well-watered. [Obs.] Blount.

. . . is actions above my gifts." Marlowe. I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun. Acts xxxvi. 13.

ed by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

nding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.

red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades. Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. Spenser.

in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.

Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim. [Thus used by Milton.]

Of or pertaining to Armenia. Armenian bole, a soft clayey earth of a bright red color found in Armenia, Tuscany, etc. -- Armenian stone. (a) The commercial name of lapis lazuli. (b) Emery.

ion or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

se a resemblance between. Sir M. Hale. To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. Cowper.

A photometer for measuring the brightness of stars.

The determination of the brightness of stars, and also of the sun, moon, and planets. --As`tro*pho`to*met"ric*al (#), a.

ellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is tho…