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Having a bract or bracts.

Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

Furnished with branchiæ; as, branchiate segments.

Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.

A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor. Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended. Swift.

sting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in appearance. The brecciated appearance of many specimens [of meteorites]. H. A. Newton.

One who breeds or originates quarrels. [Obs.] "No telltale nor no breedbate." Shak.

A short compend; a summary; a brief statement. I omit in this breviate to rehearse. Hakluyt. The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus.

Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.

Short-billed; having a short beak.

A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.

Same as Brocatel.

To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.

See Bromate, v. t.

Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered. Bullate leaf (Bot.), a leaf, the membranous part of which rises between the veins puckered elevations convex on one side and concave on the other.

Bursiform.

A salt of butyric acid.

To make sharp or pointed. [Obs.]

With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.

To curl or friz, as the hair. [Obs.] Cotgrave.