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A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship. A people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind. Burke.

A dunce; a stupid fellow.

A schoolfellow; an associate in study.

ximately hemisherical), to hold liquids, etc. Brought them food in bowls of basswood. Longfellow.

A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son. My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee. Sir W. Scott.

A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. [R] Shak.

Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited. [Arhaic] A brag young fellow. B. Jonson.

d bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. The breakers were right beneath her bows. Longfellow.

A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. [Slang] "He 's a dear little brick." Thackeray. To have a brick in one's hat, to be drunk. [Slang]

ridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river. Their simple engineering bridged with felled trees the streams which could not be forded. Palfrey.

A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. Giving them not a little the air of brigands or banditti. Jeffery.

dding 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.

urative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow.

f England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to otherbodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship. Side by…

r, of various shades between black and red or yellow. Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. Longfellow. Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. -- Brown bread (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the…

Mist; fog; vapors. "The drifting brume." Longfellow.

as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed. [As leaves] have with one winter's brush Fell from their boughts. Shak.

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray.

A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man. [Colloq.] Dickens.

A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. When on his cheek a buffet fell. Sir W. Scott.