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An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.

Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil. Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be. Byron.

A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindos. [Written also Brahma-samaj.]

A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Jamieson.

Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance. Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze. -- Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.…

inuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. All modern trash is Set forth with numerous breaks and dashes. Swift.

A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.

The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

A brief and pertinent mode of speaking. [R.]

A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.

ate purpose. [Eng.] Apostolical brief, a letter of the pope written on fine parchment in modern characters, subscribed by the secretary of briefs, dated "a die Nativitatis," i. e., "from the day of the Nativity," and sealed with the ring of the fisherman. It differs from a bull, in its parchment, written character, dat…

An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.

An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers. [Prov. Eng.] Forby.

The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. [Local, Eng.] Southey.

character has always existed in the Church of England. It is called by different names: Moderate, Catholic, or Broad Church, by its friends; Latitudinarian or Indifferent, by its enemies. Its distinctive character is the desire of comprehension. Its watch words are charity and toleration. Conybeare.…

Rather broad; moderately broad.

mmonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom. Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; -- called also knee holly. See Clado…

A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.