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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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BRACHYURAN n.
One of the Brachyura.
BRANCHY a.
Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.
BRASHY a. 2 definitions
Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly.
BREACHY a.
Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.
BRUSHY a.
Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.
BRYOPHYTA n.
See Cryptogamia.
BUNCHY a. 3 definitions
Swelling out in bunches. An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. Phaer.
BUSHY a. 2 definitions
Thick and spreading, like a bush. "Bushy eyebrows." Irving.
CACOCHYMIA; CACOCHYMY n.
A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood. Dunglison.
CACOCHYMIC; CACOCHYMICAL a.
Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood. Wiseman.
CACOGRAPHY n.
Incorrect or bad writing or spelling. Walpole.
CALCOGRAPHY n.
The art of drawing with chalk.
CALIGRAPHY n.
See Caligraphy.
CALLIGRAPHY n.
Fair or elegant penmanship.
CAMPEACHY WOOD n.
Logwood.
CARBOHYDRATE n.
hich contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.
CARBOHYDRIDE n.
A hydrocarbon.
CARDIOGRAPHY n. 2 definitions
(Physiol.) Examination by the cardiograph.
CARDIOSPHYGMOGRAPH n.
A combination of cardiograph and shygmograph.
CARPOPHYLL n.
A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel.
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