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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.

Of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance. Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew. Pope.

s surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the gridle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below. This snuffbox --…

anything. Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim I would remove it with an anxious pity. Coleridge.

, brimstone matches. From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge.

Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled. "Three brinded cows," Dryden. "The brinded cat." Shak.

A brindled color; also, that which is brindled.

n.), a pump for changing the water in the boilers, so as to clear them of the brine which collects at the bottom. -- Brine shrimp, Brine worm (Zoöl.), a phyllopod crustacean of the genus Artemia, inhabiting the strong brines of salt works and natural salt lakes. See Artemia. -- Brine spring, a spring of salt water.…

as, to bring down high looks. -- To bring down the house, to cause tremendous applause. [Colloq.] -- To bring forth. (a) To produce, as young fruit. (b) To bring to light; to make manifest. -- To bring forward (a) To exhibit; to introduce; to produce to view. (b) To hasten; to promote; to forward. (c) To propose; to…

restrict to the original inhabitants. British gum, a brownish substance, very soluble in cold water, formed by heating dry starch at a temperature of about 600° Fahr. It corresponds, in its properties, to dextrin, and is used, in solution, as a substitute for gum in stiffering goods. -- British lion, the national emb…

A volley of abuse or denunciation. [Colloq.]

Colossal' of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- n.

A chicken or other bird fit for broiling. [Colloq.]

An oily, colorless fluid, CBr

A colorless or white crystalline compound, (CH2)6N4C2H5Br, used as a sedative in epilepsy.

A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is som…

A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin. [Spelt also brompikrin.]

A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.

One who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes.

A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.