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A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. [R.] A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift.

Wrangle; brangle. [Obs.]

A quarrelsome person.

A quarrel. [R.] Whitlock.

Buckwheat. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

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

Bear's-breech, or Acanthus.

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

Having the appearance of bran; consisting of or containing bran. Wiseman.

A brawl or dance. [Obs.] Spenser.

A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.

A kind of fox found in Sweden (Vulpes alopex), smaller than the common fox (V. vulgaris), but probably a variety of it.

The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail.

Relating to the brain; cerebral. I. Taylor.

Abranchiate.

A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

Without gills.

Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.

A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]

A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.