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ntion by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and good will. [Archaic] Commend me to my brother. Shak.

A society or body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood.

That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.

A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

; portrayed. Look here upon this picture, and on this-The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. Shak.

One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.

n; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other. Cross action (Law), an action brought by a party who is sued against the person who has sued him, upon the same subject matter, as upon the same contract…

-- To cut off. (a) To sever; to separate. I would to God, . . . The king had cut off my brother's. Shak.

sometimes used by children. I was never so bethumped withwords, Since I first called my brother's father dad. Shak.

uent Parliaments bind not. Blackstone. His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other. Macaulay. Derogatory clause in a testament (Law), a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no wi…

To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.] I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it. Evelyn.

ly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly. Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly. 2 Thess. iii. 6. Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Sir W. Raleigh.

To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny. Then they, who brother's better claim disown, Expel their parents, and usurp the throne. Dryden.

ions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery. Affliction's sons are brothers in distress. Burns.

e called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.

To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine. Have I tongue to doom my brother's death Shak.

ease and repose, like a bed of down When in the down I sink my head, Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath. Tennyson. Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares! Southern.

es or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother! Thackeray.

omic picture. [Obs.] I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton. Evelyn.

One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean.