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A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.

Having an active or vigorous mind. [Colloq.]

Having the appearance of bran; consisting of or containing bran. Wiseman.

Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong. "Brawny limbs." W. Irving.

Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous. B. Jonson.

f or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.

See Bryony. Tennyson.

A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.

Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.

veral cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic. Black bryony, a plant (Tamus communis) so named from its dark glossy leaves and black root; black bindweed.

A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.

An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursæ muscosæ), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.

Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." Thackeray. "My coat so blue and buttony." W. S. Gilbert.

An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables. "Cacophonies of all kinds." Pope.

A corruption or corrupt state of art. [R.]

calumnies." Motley. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Shak.

A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

Reputed to have magical powers. Sir W. Scott. No canny, not safe, not fortunate; unpropitious. [Scot.]

A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.]