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le road. (a) Same as Bridle path. Lowell. (b) A road in a pleasure park reserved for horseback exercise. -- Bridle track, a bridle path. -- Scolding bridle. See Branks, 2.

per. Brier root, the root of the southern Smilax laurifolia and S. Walleri; -- used for tobacco pipes. -- Cat brier, Green brier, several species of Smilax (S. rotundifolia, etc.) -- Sweet brier (Rosa rubiginosa). See Sweetbrier. -- Yellow brier, the Rosa Eglantina.

e, a morsel of bread. 1 Kings xvii. 11. To France shall we convey you safe, And bring you back. Shak.

That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.

A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.

hairs resembling bristles; rough. The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. Bacon.

A spit. [Obs.] He turned a broach that had worn a crown. Bacon.

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…

Austere or stiff, like scholastics. Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. Milton. Budge bachelor, one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession. -- Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the o…

See Backsheesh.

ed ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a more nimble motion, and more serviceable. Bacon.

The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition. Bacon.

A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

iation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.

A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue. Shak.

Free from bushes; bare. O'er the long backs of the bushless downs. Tennyson.

A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.

ernment. There was likewise a law to restrain the by-laws, or ordinances of corporations. Bacon. The law or institution; to which are added two by-laws, as a comment upon the general law. Addison.

roverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. Bacon.