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To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones. Where the brook brawls along the painful road. Wordsworth.

wls; wrangler. Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.

s should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. E. Hall. And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. Shak.

A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. There's fallen between him and my lord An unkind breach. Shak.

An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. All modern trash is Set forth with numerous breaks and dashes. Swift.

To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.

; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott.

Exercising; promotion of respiration. Here is a lady that wants breathing too; And I have heard, you knights of Tyre Are excellent in making ladies trip. Shak.

ited at one end. -- Knee breeches, breeches coming to the knee, and buckled or fastened there; smallclothes. -- To wear the breeches, to usurp the authority of the husband; -- said of a wife. [Colloq.]

ry. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland.

tate of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west. There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest. Shak.

A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.

A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.

A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

His bridling neck." Wordsworth. By her bridling up I perceived she expected to be treated hereafter not as Jenny Distaff, but Mrs. Tranquillus. Tatler.

at bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.

A kind of soft French cream cheese; -- so called from the district in France where it is made; --called also fromage de Brie.

A place where briers grow. Huloet.

Of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance. Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew. Pope.

ument for measuring the saltness of a liquid. -- Brine pan, a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed by cristallization. -- Brine pit, a salt spring or well, from which water is taken to be boiled or evaporated for making salt. -- Brine pump (Marine Engin.), a pump for changing the water in the boilers, so a…