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To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread. 1 Kings xvii. 11. To France shall we convey you safe, And bring you back. Shak.

to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood. Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade, He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast. Shak.

One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter. Some such broacher of heresy. Atterbury.

brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state. I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. Burke.

Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.

ing brown. Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair); Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.

Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse. Browsings for the deer. Howell.

as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises. Isa. i. 6.

Report; rumor; fame. The bruit thereof will bring you many friends. Shak.

An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.).

ison. The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.

variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.

A place where meat is smoked.

An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [Slang, U.S.]

a native in Ohio. [U.S.] Buckeye State, Ohio; -- so called because buckeye trees abound there.

me. Shak. To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal. To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. Barrow. Before buckling to my winter's work. J. D. Forbes.

ed 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.

A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceæ and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.

A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk. Against these forces there were prepared near one hundred ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a more nimble motion, and more serviceable. Bacon.