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Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.

Breadthwise. Whewell.

A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.

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.

ewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief. Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver! Milton.

Malt liquor; drink brewed. "Some well-spiced brewage." Milton. A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay.

A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.

The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale.

onsisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages. [Written also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.

Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious. Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece Of fine-cut crystal. Cotton. Brittle silver ore, the mineral stephanite.

A small spit or skewer.

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored. Farrow.

A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.

A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like.

ty. Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question. Whewell.

Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. Blue Walden rolls its cannonade. Ewerson.

Chief; superior. [R.] captain jewes in the carcanet. Shak.

An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewerly is made.

A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [Also written carkenet and carcant.] Shak.

ool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets. T. Fuller.