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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,251 words match “RUN”

Same as Brun, a brook. [Scot.]

BRUNETTE n. 2 definitions

A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion. -- a.

Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or def…

BRUNSWICK BLACK n.

See Japan black.

BRUNSWICK GREEN n.

An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.

BRUNT n. 2 definitions

r utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.

A beautiful crystalline compound, SiC, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive.

CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER n.

Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.

CARUNCLE; CARUNCULA n. 3 definitions

A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.

CARUNCULAR; CARUNCULOUS a.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles.

CARUNCULATE; CARUNCULATED a.

Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.

The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.

CRUNCH v. 4 definitions

To chew with force and noise; to craunch. And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull. Byron.

CRUNK; CRUNKLE v.

To cry like a crane. [Obs.] "The crane crunketh." Withals (1608).

Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves.

A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.

To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.

DETRUNCATION n.

The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.

To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger. [Colloq.]