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Stop; pause; delay. You shake the head at so long a breathing. Shak.

great man . . . anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched. Macaulay.

. "Some well-spiced brewage." Milton. A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay.

A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard.

Anything made of bricks. Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. Tomlinson.

but the heavens were bright. Drake. The public places were as bright as at noonday. Macaulay.

to make cheerful; as, to brighten one's prospects. An ecstasy, which mothers only feel, Plays round my heart and brightens all my sorrow. Philips.

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

n; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay. Cowper.

ourse, when a ship sails large, as to bring the lee side suddenly to the windward, any by laying the sails aback, expose her to danger of upsetting. -- To bring down. (a) To cause to come down. (b) To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks. -- To bring down the house, to cause tremendous applause. [Colloq.] --…

ling with ten thousand bayonets. Thackeray. Ports bristling with thousands of masts. Macaulay.

hole), by using a broach. To broach to (Naut.), to incline suddenly to windward, so as to lay the sails aback, and expose the vessel to the danger of oversetting.

A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.

words at parting. Amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave senators. Macaulay. Broken ground. (a) (Mil.) Rough or uneven ground; as, the troops were retarded in their advance by broken ground. (b) Ground recently opened with the plow. -- Broken line (Geom.), the straight lines which join a number of gi…

epressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.

The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay.

The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. Tomlinson.

restraint. Spenser. Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten Macaulay.

The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.

The Malayan sun bear.