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A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled.

ften approximately hemisherical), to hold liquids, etc. Brought them food in bowls of basswood. Longfellow.

s, one of which, the dwaft box (B.suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc. Box elder, the ash-leaved maple (Negundo aceroides), of North America. -- Box…

Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus). [R.] The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden.

A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.

A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.

An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny. In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne.

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct. Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof. Palfrey.

A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Jamieson.

Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] Bartlett.

A substance, C16H14O5, extracted from brazilwood as a yellow crystalline powder which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies on exposure to the air, being oxidized to bra*sil"e*in, C16H12O5, to which brazilwood owes its dyeing properties.

picuous. [Obs. or Archaic as applied to material things.] Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth. Bacon. It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall. Pepys.

See Brazil wood.

A substance contained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies. [Written also brezilin.]

nd night is fied. Shak. And from the turf a fountain broke, and gurgled at our feet. Wordswoorth.

The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

ed or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.

A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.

A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.