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To blow gently. [R.] J. Barlow. To breeze up (Naut.), to blow with increasing freshness.

Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tête-de-pont.

One who brings. Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office. Shak. Bringer in, one who, or that which, introduces.

A word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Great Britain; any manner of using a word or words that is peculiar to Great Britain.

A spire rising from a tower. [Local, Eng.]

Free; unrestrained; unconfined. As broad and general as the casing air. Shak.

A badger. Or with pretense of chasing thence the brock. B. Jonson.

The act of causing anything to broil.

A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.

To fight with the fists; to box. Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom. Thackeray.

To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush. Some spread their sailes, some with strong oars sweep The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave. Fairfax. Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings. Milton.

Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation. A creature . . . not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason. Milton.

Browsing. [Obs.] Evelyn.

An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.).

A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aërated waters.

The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.

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.

One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel.