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A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.

In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.

Brilliancy. Tennyson.

The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow.

Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star.

An oily composition used to make the hair glossy.

In a brilliant manner.

Brilliancy; splendor; glitter.

The hair on the eyelids of a horse. Bailey.

A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.

A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.

A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.

Of of pertaining to fibrils.

Furnished with fibrils; fringed.

The state of being reduced to fibers. Carpenter.

, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.

Pertaining to, or composed of, fibers.

r a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. Watts.