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The state of being brindled.

The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.

State or quality of being brinish.

The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.

Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships. The one being who remembered him as he been before his mind was broken. G. Eliot. The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. Goldsmith.

The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay.

onorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.

The state of being brothers or a brother.

The state or quality of being brotherly.

The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair); Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.

Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; blutness. Brit. Quar.

The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled. Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face. W. Irving. Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year. Addison.

. -- Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the other end being closed by a piece of leather, which is drawn together with strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast service.

The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff. [Colloq.] To be in buff is equivalent to being naked. Wright.

shores. Broome. You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world. W. Black.

The state of being infested with bugs.

a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.

ed or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).