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A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.

r (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of…

The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.

P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.

Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub. The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes. Shak.

Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.

d from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.

A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).

The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of 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.

pending 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 lines. -- Breeches pipe, a forked pipe forming two branches…

To blow gently. [R.] J. Barlow. To breeze up (Naut.), to blow with increasing freshness.

Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes. From thence to heaven's bribeless hall. Sir W. Raleigh.

d ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.

A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.

To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.

(b) To restore, as something borrowed, to its owner. -- To bring by the lee (Naut.), to incline so rapidly to leeward of the course, when a ship sails large, as to bring the lee side suddenly to the windward, any by laying the sails aback, expose her to danger of upsetting. -- To bring down. (a) To cause to come dow…

To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach. To broach to (Naut.), to incline suddenly to windward, so as to lay the sails aback, and expose the vessel to the danger of oversetting.

readth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.