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A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words. Bear this sealed brief, With winged hastle, to the lord marshal. Shak. And she told me In a sweet, verbal brief. Shak.

Full to the brim; overflowing.

ving; also, a molded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.

An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber.

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

A tracing or chart showing the phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

ed at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chicken. As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings. Luke xiii. 34. A hen followed by a brood of ducks. Spectator.

Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom. If land grow mossy or broomy. Mortimer.

p The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave. Fairfax. Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings. Milton.

A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

h firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. Buck saw, a saw set in a frame and used for sawing wood on a sawhorse.

A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids. The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. Wordsworth.

A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.

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

t (Zoöl.), the night hawk; -- so called from the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. -- Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. -- Bull mackerel (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel. -- Bull pump (Mining), a direct single-acting pumping engine, in which the steam cylinder is placed above the pump. -- Bull…

A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.

species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in North America; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring.

A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.

The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following. [Eng.]

A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.