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A slave; one who is bound to service without wages. If thy brother . . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant. Lev. xxv. 39, 40.

the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.

ammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mammma; a teat. My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1.

pl. of Brother.

A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy.

ence, to grow large. A slender poet must have time to grow, And spread and burnish as his brothers do. Dryden. My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell. Herbert.

The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son. The cadet of an ancient and noble family. Wood.

or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless. My brother was too careless of his charge. Shak. He grew careless of himself. Steele.

To impose; to bestow; to rest. The government I cast upon my brother. Shak. Cast thy burden upon the Lord. Ps. iv. 22.

n or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character. You know the character to be your brother's Shak.

; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away. Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince to prince and from place to place. Knolles.

thes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing was sackloth. Ps. xxxv. 13

ention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and good will. [Archaic] Commend me to my brother. Shak.

A society or body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood.

That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.

A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

e; portrayed. Look here upon this picture, and on this-The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. Shak.

One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.

on; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other. Cross action (Law), an action brought by a party who is sued against the person who has sued him, upon the same subject matter, as upon the same contrac…

-- To cut off. (a) To sever; to separate. I would to God, . . . The king had cut off my brother's. Shak.