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rd, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.

ridge, a bridge formed of an arch of timber or iron, often braced, the thrust of which is resisted by a tie forming a chord of the arch. -- Bowstring girder, an arched beam strengthened by a tie connecting its two ends. -- Bowstring hemp (Bot.), the tenacious fiber of the Sanseviera Zeylanica, growing in India and Af…

Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus). [R.] The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden.

In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.

Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile. A boyish, odd conceit. Baillie.

A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace…

Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm.

A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.

ve 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 specially affected; an…

me for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. A horse . . . which Philip had bought . . . and because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars. J. Brende.

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

A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.

Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly.

A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.

Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.

Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.

a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.

to break one's journey. Go, release them, Ariel; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore. Shak.

The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.

Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. Mountains on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest. Milton.