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A bitch of the hound kind. Shak.

A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.

See Brachium.

Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.

A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.

Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

One of the Brachioganoidei.

An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.

(Zoöl.) A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.

One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.

See Brahman. [Obs.]

A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.

Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.

Having short antennæ, as certain insects.

Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism. Brachydiagonal axis, the shorter lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal.

A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.

A writer in short hand; a stenographer. He asked the brachygrapher whether he wrote the notes of the sermon. Gayton.