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One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. Knight.

Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled. "Three brinded cows," Dryden. "The brinded cat." Shak.

The state of being brindled.

Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded. "With a brindled lion played." Churchill.

The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay. Cowper.

o a nearer place; to fetch. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread. 1 Kings xvii. 11. To France shall we convey you safe, And bring you back. Shak.

One who brings. Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office. Shak. Bringer in, one who, or that which, introduces.

The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.

Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish. "Brinish tears." Shak.

State or quality of being brinish.

A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound.

lace, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy lake. Bryant.

Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.

Acetanilide.

A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance.

like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.

To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.

The act or process of depriving of fibrin.

To defibrinate.

s, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.