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rness; compassion. "Thou thing of no bowels." Shak. Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels. Fuller.

Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.

In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.

The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel- shaped entrance at one end.

Furnished with bowstring.

To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.

Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.

ethren, both bishops, both eminent for learning and religion, now appeared in the church. Fuller. But you, my brace of lords. Shak.

A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.

To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.

Furnished with bracts.

Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

g to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament. Shak.…

Braids, collectively; trimming. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray.

leys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.

l (Zoöl), a massive reef-building coral having the surface covered by ridges separated by furrows so as to resemble somewhat the surface of the brain, esp. such corals of the genera Mæandrina and Diploria. -- Brain fag (Med.), brain weariness. See Cerebropathy. -- Brain fever (Med.), fever in which the brain is speci…

Hot-headed; furious. [R.] Shak.

Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny. In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne.

Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. "In brambly wildernesses." Tennyson.