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A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.

Mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches.

The state, conditions, or quality of being brassy. [Colloq.]

as in conspicuous. [Obs. or Archaic as applied to material things.] Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth. Bacon. It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall. Pepys.

ly. And [she] decked herself bravely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her. Judith. x. 4.

The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity. Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. Shak.

A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer. Safe from detection, seize the unwary prey. And stab, like bravoes, all who come this way. Churchill.

To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin. With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks, Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks. Dryden.

The rank or condition of a brevet officer.

A two-masted, square-rigged vessel. Hermaphrodite brig, a two- masted vessel square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in Appendix.

retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. Giving them not a little the air of brigands or banditti. Jeffery.

The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.

A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.

The mineral chondrodite. [R.]

The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.

The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.

Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble. Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. Shak.

so settled out that the coagulum appears nearly colorless. This is common in diseased conditions where the corpuscles run together more rapidly and in denser masses than usual. Huxley.

minence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.