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Having bowels; hollow. "The boweled cavern." Thomson.

f wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.

A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.

Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

(Zoöl.) A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

Having short antennæ, as certain insects.

A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.

Having short wings.

Having the nature or appearance of a bract.

Having a bract or bracts.

A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra.

osing the brain. -- Brain coral, Brain stone coral (Zoöl), a massive reef-building coral having the surface covered by ridges separated by furrows so as to resemble somewhat the surface of the brain, esp. such corals of the genera Mæandrina and Diploria. -- Brain fag (Med.), brain weariness. See Cerebropathy. -- Bra…

Having an active or vigorous mind. [Colloq.]

Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broa…

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.

ormerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.

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