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A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tête-de-pont.

The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight. Bridging joist. Same as Binding joist.

Having no bridge; not bridged.

The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle. Knight.

The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill. Knight.

Full of bridges. [R.] Sherwood.

hain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.

A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.

One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle. Milton.

The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein. Campbell.

The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.

To braid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

One who embroiders. [Archaic]

Embroidery. [Archaic] The golden broidery tender Milkah wove. Tickell.

A compound of bromine with a positive radical.

A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.

A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides. [Slang]

The bank of a brook.

Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidæ, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.