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position with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat. The close minister is buttoned up, and the brave officer open- breasted, on these occasions. Spectator.

Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

ping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.

st like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.

only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.

Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6. [Obs.]

sophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves. The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer. Wirt. To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.

The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.

The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch. [Written also burrion.]

e genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yelow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidæ, as the stonechat, and whinchat. Bush chat. (Zoöl.) See under Bush.

nk, a pair of buttons or studs joined by a link, to hold together the lappels of a double-breasted coat; or a button with a loop for a single-breasted coat. -- Coat of mail, a defensive garment of chain mail. See Chain mail, under Chain. -- Mast coat (Naut.), a piece of canvas nailed around a mast, where it passes th…

The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.

The red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator).

head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord. Frock coat, a body coat for men, usually doublebreasted, the skirts not being in one piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full. -- Smock frock. See in the Vocabulary.

Charadrius, esp. the European (C. apricarius, or pluvialis; -- called also yellow, black-breasted hill, and whistling, plover. The common American species (C. dominicus) is also called frostbird, and bullhead. -- Golden robin. (Zoöl.) See Baltimore oriole, in Vocab. -- Golden rose (R. C. Ch.), a gold or gilded rose…

The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.

An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot.

The red-breasted merganser.

A short, heavy, double-breasted plaid coat, the design of which is large and striking. [Local, U. S.]