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To spread. [Obs.] Ray.

ut, out, hyena! these are thy wonted arts . . . To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray. Milton

Aspiration; secret prayer. "Earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state." Tillotson.

A seal or charm for a watch chain. "His chains and breloques." Thackeray.

rp; severe; cruel. [Obs.] Spenser. From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air. Drayton.

A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal.

d fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. [Slang] "He 's a dear little brick." Thackeray. To have a brick in one's hat, to be drunk. [Slang]

Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled. "Three brinded cows," Dryden. "The brinded cat." Shak.

Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded. "With a brindled lion played." Churchill.

ace; to fetch. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread. 1 Kings xvii. 11. To France shall we convey you safe, And bring you back. Shak.

A stiff, sharp, roundish hair. Gray.

A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality.

Inclined to brood. Ray.

wn. Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair); Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.

To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush. Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs. Shak.

ush, a form of the electric discharge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body.

A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray.

A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.

Any tooth that juts out. When he laughed, two white buckteeth protruded. Thackeray.