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A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout. The gentleman will, for his honor's sake, have one bout with you; he can not by the duello avoid it. Shak.

Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13.

Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth. His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of the battle. Shak.

To pelt or strike with anything rolled. Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnipsShak. To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.

The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.

That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.

d; a stenographer. He asked the brachygrapher whether he wrote the notes of the sermon. Gayton.

Salt or brackish water. [Obs.] Drayton.

Brackish. Drayton.

modest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance. Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze. -- Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.…

that the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. -- A clean breach implies that everything on deck is swept away. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. Mountains on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest. Milton.

The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.

he land, generally at night. -- Sea breeze, a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea.

; severe; cruel. [Obs.] Spenser. From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air. Drayton.

A short compend; a summary; a brief statement. I omit in this breviate to rehearse. Hakluyt. The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus.

A mixing together. I am not able to avouch anything for certainty, such a brewing and sophistication of them they make. Holland.

in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia.

ct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust. Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe. Hobart.

Anything made of bricks. Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. Tomlinson.