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A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.

Short-billed; having a short beak.

Contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Puller.

A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.

pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used. [Scot.]

A beam that goes across a building.

A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.

sa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue. Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis. -- Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium.

Bulbous.

A follower of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912; -- a sense said to have originated from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt "like a bull moose." [Cant]

An external angle when obtuse or rounded.

A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.

A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.

Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth.

Same as Cespitose.

A prison; a jail. [Local, U. S.]

Darkness. [R.] G. Eliot.

Of the callosum.

Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.

A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.