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British. [Obs.] Spenser. -- n.

A Welshman.

A person born in India, of mixed Indian and British blood; a half-caste. Malcom.

; a responsive action. Great the slaughter is Here made by the Roman; great the answer be Britons must take. Shak.

To dye or stain. Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed. Spenser.

The body of Christian believers. [Obs.] To Walys fled the christianitee Of olde Britons. Chaucer.

boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt.

t times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.

Strongly affected. [Obs.] The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. Spenser.

to be roused or exasperated. On all occasions where forbearance might be called for, the Briton kindles, and the Christian gives way. I. Taylor.

To solicit; to entreat. [Obs.] The famous Briton prince and faery knight, . . . Of the fair Alma greatly were procured To make there longer sojourn and abode. Spenser.

ineness; real; actual; not spurious. "His right wife." Chaucer. In this battle, . . . the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians. Milton.

to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips.

ually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.

A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size. The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides. Sir T. Raleigh. Twig borer (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer (Amphice…