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To put out of breath; to exhaust. Mr. Tulkinghorn arrives in his turret room, a little breathed by the journey up. Dickens.

Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. The thorns and briers of reproof. Cowper. Brier root, the root of the southern Smilax laurifolia and S. Walleri; -- used for tobacco pipes. -- Cat brier, Green brier, several species of Smilax (S. rotundifolia, etc.) -- Sweet brier (Rosa rubiginosa). See Sweetbrier.…

Full of briers; thorny.

With lively intelligence; intelligently. Looking brightly into the mother's face. Hawthorne.

North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

n. Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson.

A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.

llow flowers. The seed vessel on bursting resembles two bucklers or shields. -- Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn. -- Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.

To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

A horn used by hunters.

t size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.

an Englishman. "Good-looking young John Bull." W. D.Howells. -- To take the bull by the horns, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.

In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout.

To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.

es rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs. To bind a bush of thorns among sweet-smelling flowers. Gascoigne.

ltuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. "A bustling wharf." Hawthorne.

An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.

amples of these relations are in L. acutus, E. acute, ague; E. acrid, eagar; L. cornu, E. horn; E. cat, kitten; E. coy, quiet; L. circare, OF. cerchier, E. search.

A forest composed of stunted trees and thorny bushes, found in areas of small rainfall in Brazil.

The pronghorn antelope. [Also written cabrit, cabret.]