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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.

To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.

One who makes a brief.

To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.

An oily composition used to make the hair glossy.

To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to. There is nothing will bring you more honor . . . than to do what right in justice you may. Bacon.

To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.

To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. Those very opinions themselves had broached. Swift.

To make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive.

To stamp with the broad seal; to make sure; to guarantee or warrant. [Obs.] Thy presence broadseals our delights for pure. B. Jonson.

To embroider. [Archaic] They shall make a broidered coat. Ex. xxviii. 4.

oils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels. What doth he but turn broiler, . . . make new libels against the church Hammond.

To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals. The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. W. Black.

One who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes.

To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood. Sir W. Scott.

To make brown or dusky. A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. Barlow.

brush away, to remove, as with a brush or brushing motion. -- To brush up, to paint, or make clean or bright with a brush; to cleanse or improve; to renew. You have commissioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbors. Pope.

To make a show of fireceness or defiance; to bristle. [Obs.] To brustle up, to bristle up. [Obs.] Otway.

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow.