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A strap that runs across a horse's breast. Ash.

Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life. The earthquake voice of victory, To thee the breath of life. Byron.

That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise. [Colloq.]

Aspiration; secret prayer. "Earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state." Tillotson.

That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle.

To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. That they breed abundantly in the earth. Gen. viii. 17. The mother had never bred before. Carpenter. Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast. Shak.

One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. She was a great breeder. Dr. A. Carlyle. Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men. Ascham.

r training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. Hume.

Steep; high. [Obs.] Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them. Ascham.

The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes. Brande & C.

A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer.

me; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland.

The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed. Bacon.

That which seduces; seduction; allurement. Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everAkenside.

That which bribes; a bribe. His service . . . were a sufficient briber for his life. Shak.

litical action of another by corrupt inducements. Bribery oath, an oath taken by a person that he has not been bribed as to voting. [Eng.]

Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick. Weale.

A rustic wedding feast; a bridal. See Ale. The man that 's bid to bride-ale, if he ha' cake, And drink enough, he need not fear his stake. B. Jonson.

A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.

Concise; terse; succinct. The brief style is that which expresseth much in little. B. Jonson.