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A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.

A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.

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

A bravado; a boast. With so proud a strain Of threats and bravings. Chapman.

To cover or ornament with brass. Chapman.

succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.

An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets.

To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. [Scot. & North of Eng.]

used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.

A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.

An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.

roduced; breed; species. Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). Chapman.

sicians, lawers, professors of religion, etc. "A brother of your order." Shak. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother. Shak.

urposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.

upid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor.

Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.

Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. [Obs.] Dryden.

A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta. Bulb of the eye, the eyeball. -- Bulb of a hair, the "root," or part whence the hair originates. -- Bulb of the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, often called simply bulb. -- Bulb of a tooth, the vascular and nervou…

Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.