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Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.

A coarse garnment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11

A meal after fasting, or food in general. The wolves will get a breakfast by my death. Dryden.

ter strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.

as, the discovery produced a breeze. [Colloq.] Land breeze, a wind blowing from the land, generally at night. -- Sea breeze, a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea.

To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over.

infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.

of armor for the body, consisting 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.

Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.…

Free; unrestrained; unconfined. As broad and general as the casing air. Shak.

rokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. Story.

The general air of the countenance. To whom thus Satan with contemptuous brow. Milton. He told them with a masterly brow. Milton.

To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively. Cartwright buckled himself to the employment. Fuller.

A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

h the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries. To open the budget, to lay before a legislative body th…

A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.

Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.

d preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc. Like the generality of Genoese countrywomen, strongly built. Landor.