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An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.

An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.

A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.

Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly.

Making a harsh noise; blaring. "Braying trumpets." Shak.

To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments. The victim broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity. Prescott.

Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we conv…

guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.

, the larvæ of which live in artificial brines and in salt lakes. -- Brine gauge, an instrument for measuring the saltness of a liquid. -- Brine pan, a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed by cristallization. -- Brine pit, a salt spring or well, from which water is taken to be boiled or evaporated for maki…

A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small ship stick.

An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.

An instrument for making such tracings, as a recording brontometer.

An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

c. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum.

An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises. Isa. i. 6.…

Report; rumor; fame. The bruit thereof will bring you many friends. Shak.

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, e…

Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

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