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A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill. [Scot.] Burns.

That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

Sharp passion; vexation. [Obs.] Heart-burning brame. Spenser.

Furnished with branchiæ; as, branchiate segments.

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct. Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof. Palfrey.

To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.

A pan for holding burning coals.

A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.

lities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape of coleseed (B. napus), etc.

t; brave; -- used of persons or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. "A braw new gown." Burns.

To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass. Laugh, and they Return it louder than an ass can bray. Dryden.

f; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey. Go, release them, Ariel; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore. Shak.

To furnish with breakfast. Milton.

The front of a furnace.

The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel.

reath; to exhaust. Mr. Tulkinghorn arrives in his turret room, a little breathed by the journey up. Dickens.

To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.

train; -- sometimes followed by up. But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. Bp. Burnet. His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. Locke.