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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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To frighten. [Archaic] "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey.

One who frightens. [Archaic]

Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. [Archaic] Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.

AFFRIGHTMENT n.

Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.

Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright.

llation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

Of or pertaining to a chariot. [R.]

The act of driving a chariot or a carriage. [R.] De Quincey.

The art of writing with or in gold.

A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.

BEDRIGHT; BEDRITE n.

The duty or privilege of the marriage bed. Shak.

Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb.…

BRIG n. 2 definitions

A two-masted, square-rigged vessel. Hermaphrodite brig, a two- masted vessel square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in Appendix.

BRIGADE n. 3 definitions

tillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.

BRIGADIER GENERAL n.

An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.

BRIGAND n. 2 definitions

ng in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. Giving them not a little the air of brigands or banditti. Jeffery.

Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.

tal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages. [Written also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.

Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.