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Supplied with brains. If th' other two be brained like us. Shak.

Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway. Most of the branches , or streams, were dried up. W. Irving.

A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.

A man daring beyond discretion; a bully. Hot braves like thee may fight. Dryden.

rance; ostentation; fine dress. With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery. Shak. Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on, and tackle trim. Milton.

professional assassin or murderer. Safe from detection, seize the unwary prey. And stab, like bravoes, all who come this way. Churchill.

One that brays like an ass. Pope.

Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.

Without bread; destitude of food. Plump peers and breadless bards alike are dull. P. Whitehead.

To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin. With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks, Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks. Dryden.

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.…

To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Shak. There breathes a living fragrance from the shore. Byron.

, in the life-saving service, a pair of canvas breeches depending from an annular or beltlike life buoy which is usually of cork. This contrivance, inclosing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to the shore, and is drawn to land by hauling lin…

o bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. Shak.

An ancient Irish or Scotch judge. Brehon laws, the ancient Irish laws, -- unwritten, like the common law of England. They were abolished by statute of Edward III.

A French gambling game somewhat like poker.

Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.

Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish. "Brinish tears." Shak.

To rise or stand erect, like bristles. His hair did bristle upon his head. Sir W. Scott.

A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.