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Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.

In French games, a pair royal composed of 2 cards in the hand and the card turned.

To burn. [Obs.] Chaucer. Consuming fire brent his shearing house or stall. W. Browne.

A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.

Burningly; ardently. [Obs.]

of Bren. Burnt. [Obs.]

Smooth; unwrinkled. [Scot.] Your bonnie brow was brent. Burns.

piece of bric-a-brac, any curious or antique article of virtu, as a piece of antiquated furniture or metal work, or an odd knickknack.

th water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard.

A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.

A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall. Aqueduct bridge. See Aqueduct. -- Asses' bridge, Bascule bridge, Bateau bridge. See under Ass, Bascule, Bateau. -- Bridge of a steamer (Naut.), a narrow platform across the deck, above the r…

A bridge. [Scot.] Burns.

Transmitting light; clear; transparent. From the brightest wines He 'd turn abhorrent. Thomson.

rom without; to import. (b) To introduce, as a bill in a deliberative assembly. (c) To return or repot to, or lay before, a court or other body; to render; as, to bring in a verdict or a report. (d) To take to an appointed place of deposit or collection; as, to bring in provisions or money for a specified object. (e) T…

th a calash top, so constructed as to give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.

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

A spit; a broach. On five sharp broachers ranked, the roast they turned. Dryden.

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. Knight.

One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels. What doth he but turn broiler, . . . make new libels against the church Hammond.

close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.