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A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail.

A bridge. [Obs.] Chaucer.

eflecting light; shedding or having much light; shining; luminous; not dark. The sun was bright o'erhead. Longfellow. The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright. Drake. The public places were as bright as at noonday. Macaulay.

nguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process.

Having glittering armor. [Poetic] Milton.

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

Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor.

The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe.

Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. [R.] Marlowe.

Contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Puller.

A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel. [Obs.] Chesterfield.

To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops. [Prov. Eng.]

See Beggar's ticks.

A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England.

Of the goat kind.

A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]

An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.

Rigged like a catboat.

The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.

Affording chondrin.