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Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. Johnson. De Quincey.

A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures. Bounty jumper, one who, during the latter part of the Civil War, enlisted in the United States service, and deserted as soon as possible after receiving the bounty. [Collog.]…

The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.

tians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water. [Written also bosa, bozah, bouza.]

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.

Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. Lyell.

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

A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.

Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly.

To quarrel noisily and outrageously. Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife. Golden Boke.

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.

Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. Tennison. The breath of flowers. Bacon.

o blow gently. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Shak. There breathes a living fragrance from the shore. Byron.

Full of breath; full of odor; fragrant. [Obs.]

A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors. Bone breccia, a breccia containing bones, usually fragmentary. -- Coin breccia, a breccia containing coins.

Consisting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in appearance. The brecciated appearance of many specimens [of meteorites]. H. A. Newton.

A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4. Bacon.

A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

picked bone of majesty Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest. Shak. Boy, bristle thy courage up. Shak.