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A baker's kneading though. Johnson.

A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain. Brandy fruit, fruit preserved in brandy and sugar.

The quality or state of being brazen. Johnson.

An abbreviature; an abbreviation. [Obs.] Johnson.

few words; conciseness. Brevity is the soul of wit. Shak. This argument is stated by St. John with his usual elegant brevity and simplicity. Bp. Porteus.

To make acute or witty; to enliven. Johnson.

is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects. Watts.

A crystalline substance (chemically, tribromophenol, C6H2Br3OH), used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.

by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.…

A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.

The beech tree. [Scot.] Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. Johnson.

several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Æsculus) as the horse chestnut. The Ohio buckeye, or Fetid buckeye, is Æsculus glabra. -- Red buckeye is Æ. Pavia. -- Small buckeye is Æ. paviflora. -- Sweet buckeye, or Yellow buckeye, is Æ. flava.

tice of baiting bulls, or rendering them furious, as by setting dogs to attack them. -- John Bull, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. "Good-looking young John Bull." W. D.Howells. -- To take the bull by the horns, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.

htha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol. -- Burning glass, a conxex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus. -- Burning house (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphu…

A thrust in fencing. To prove who gave the fairer butt, John shows the chalk on Robert's coat. Prior.

To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. [Cant] Johnson.

The European bittern. Johnson.

nd other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold as butterine or suine. Johnson's Cyc.

The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray. [Written also kaaba.]

To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage. Johnson.