BRONTOLOGY — BUBULCA NWAD BRONTOLOGY.1
BRONTOLOGY, n. [Gr. thunder, and discourse.] NWAD BRONTOLOGY.1
A discourse or dissertation upon thunder, containing an explanation of its causes and phenomena. NWAD BRONTOLOGY.2
1. A compound of copper and tin, to which other metallic substances are sometimes added, especially zink. It is brittle, hard, and sonorous, and used for statues, bells and cannon, the proportions of the respective ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. NWAD BRONZ.2
2. A color prepared for the purpose of imitating bronze, of two kinds, the yellow and the red. The yellow is made of fine copper-dust; the red, of copper-dust with a little pulverized red ocher. NWAD BRONZ.3
3. Among antiquaries, any figure of men, beasts, urns, or other piece of sculpture, which the ancients made of bronze. NWAD BRONZ.4
4. Any statue or bust cast of bronze, whether original or a copy of an antique. NWAD BRONZ.5
5. Among medalists, any copper medal. NWAD BRONZ.6
BRONZE, v.t. To imitate bronze, by means of copper-dust or leaf fastened on the outside, as gold-leaf in gilding. NWAD BRONZE.1
1. To harden, or make like brass. NWAD BRONZE.2
BRONZING, ppr. Imitating bronze. NWAD BRONZING.1
BRONZING, n. The act or art of imitating bronze, by means of copper-dust or leaf. NWAD BRONZING.2
BRONZITE, n. [from bronze.] A mineral, called by Hauy diallage metalloide, nearly allied to Labrador hornblend, or hyperstene. It has a yellowish brown color and semi-metallic luster, approaching to that of bronze. NWAD BRONZITE.1
Bronzite is regarded by Cleaveland as a subspecies of diallage. NWAD BRONZITE.2
BROOCH, n. broche. NWAD BROOCH.1
1. An ornamental utensil for fastening the vest, or the bosom of a shirt, as formerly used in America. It is usually made of silver, often round, with a tongue crossing its diameter, sometimes with two tongues. It formerly was used in England, as it was in America, and is still in the highlands of Scotland. NWAD BROOCH.2
2. A jewel. NWAD BROOCH.3
3. With painters, a painting all of one color. NWAD BROOCH.4
BROOCH, v.t. To adorn or furnish with brooches or jewels. NWAD BROOCH.5
BROOD, v.i. NWAD BROOD.1
1. To sit on and cover, as a fowl on her eggs for the purpose of warming them and hatching chickens, or as a hen over her chickens, to warm and protect them. NWAD BROOD.2
2. To sit on; to spread over, as with wings; as, to sit brooding over the vast abyss. NWAD BROOD.3
3. To remain a long time in anxiety or solicitous thought; to have the mind uninterruptedly dwell a long time on a subject; as, the miser broods over his gold. NWAD BROOD.4
4. To mature any thing with care. NWAD BROOD.5
BROOD, v.t. To sit over, cover and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens. NWAD BROOD.6
1. To cherish. NWAD BROOD.7
You’ll brood your sorrows on a throne. NWAD BROOD.8
BROOD, n. Offspring; progeny; formerly used of human beings in elegant works, and we have brother, from this word; but it is now more generally used in contempt. NWAD BROOD.9
1. A hatch; the young birds hatched at once; as a brood of chickens or of ducks. NWAD BROOD.10
2. That which is bred; species generated; that which is produced. NWAD BROOD.11
Lybia’s broods of poison. NWAD BROOD.12
3. The act of covering the eggs, or of brooding. [Unusual.] NWAD BROOD.13
BROODED, pp. Covered with the wings; cherished. NWAD BROODED.1
BROODING, ppr. Sitting on; covering and warming; dwelling on with anxiety. NWAD BROODING.1
BROODY, a. In a state of sitting on eggs for hatching; inclined to sit. [Unusual.] NWAD BROODY.1
BROOK, n. [Gr. to rain, to pour, to flow.] A small natural stream of water, or a current flowing from a spring or fountain less than a river. In some parts of America, run is used in a like sense; but run is also applied to larger streams than brook. NWAD BROOK.1
BROOK, v.t. [Gr. to eat, to grind the teeth.] Literally, to chew or digest, as the Fr. digerir. Hence, NWAD BROOK.2
To bear; to endure; to support; as, young men cannot brook restraint. NWAD BROOK.3
BROOK-LIME, n. [brook and lime.] A plant, a species of Veronica, called becabunga, with blue flowers in loose lateral spikes. NWAD BROOK-LIME.1
BROOK-MINT, n. The water mint. NWAD BROOK-MINT.1
BROOK-WEED, n. A plant, water pimpernel, the Samolus. NWAD BROOK-WEED.1
BROOKY, a. Abounding with brooks. NWAD BROOKY.1
BROOM, n. NWAD BROOM.1
1. A plant of several species, called dyer’s weed, being used by dyers to give a yellow color, dyer’s broom, green wood, or wood waxen, dwarf broom, all belonging to the genus Genista. Broom rape is Orobanche, and with large purple flowers, Lathroea. NWAD BROOM.2
Spanish Broom is a species of Spartium, and Butcher’s broom is the Ruscus. NWAD BROOM.3
2. A besom, or brush with a long handle for sweeping floors; so called from being originally made of the broom-plant. In America, brooms are made of the tops of broom-corn, or of some species of wood splintered, chiefly ash. The latter species of broom is furnished by the natives of the country. The original broom, made of shrubs or twigs, is still used in stables. NWAD BROOM.4
BROOM. [See Bream.] NWAD BROOM.5
BROOM-CORN, n. [broom and corn.] A species of Holcus or Guinea-corn, with a jointed stem, like a reed, or the stem of maize, rising to the highth of eight or ten feet, bearing a head of which brooms are made. Sometimes called Sorghum Saccharatum. NWAD BROOM-CORN.1
BROOMING, a ship. [See Bream.] NWAD BROOMING.1
BROOMLAND, n. [broom and land.] Land producing broom. NWAD BROOMLAND.1
BROOMRAPE, n. [See Broom.] NWAD BROOMRAPE.1
BROOMSTAFF, BROOMSTICK, n. [See Staff and Stick.] The staff or handle of a broom. NWAD BROOMSTAFF.1
BROOMY, a. Full of broom; containing broom. NWAD BROOMY.1
BROTH, n. brauth. NWAD BROTH.1
1. Liquor in which flesh is boiled and macerated, usually with rice and herbs, or some ingredient to give it a better relish. NWAD BROTH.2
2. In America, the word is often applied to foaming water, and especially to a mixture of snow and water in the highways which is called snow-broth. NWAD BROTH.3
BROTHEL, n. [A dialectical orthography of bordel, which see.] NWAD BROTHEL.1
A house of lewdness; a house appropriated to the purposes of prostitution; a bawdy house; a stew. NWAD BROTHEL.2
BROTHELER, n. One that frequents brothels. NWAD BROTHELER.1
BROTHEL-HOUSE, n. A brothel. NWAD BROTHEL-HOUSE.1
BROTHELRY, n. Lewdness; obscenity. NWAD BROTHELRY.1
BROTHER, n. plu. brothers or brethren. [L. frater.] NWAD BROTHER.1
1. A human male born of the same father and mother. A male by one of the parents only is called a half-brother, or brother of the half blood. NWAD BROTHER.2
2. Any one closely united; an associate; as a band of brothers. NWAD BROTHER.3
3. One that resembles another in manners. NWAD BROTHER.4
He that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Proverbs 18:9. NWAD BROTHER.5
In scripture, the term brother is applied to a kinsman by blood more remote that a son of the same parents; as in the case of Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Laban. Persons of the same profession call each other brother, as judges, clergymen, professors of religion, members of societies united in a common cause, monks and the like. NWAD BROTHER.6
Kings give to each other the title of brother. They address their congregations by the title of brethren. In a more general sense, brother or brethren is used for man in general; all men being children of the same primitive ancestors, and forming one race of beings. NWAD BROTHER.7
Brother-german is a brother by the father’s and mother’s side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, or by the mother only. NWAD BROTHER.8
BROTHERHOOD, n. [brother and hood.] The state or quality of being a brother. NWAD BROTHERHOOD.1
1. An association of men for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity. NWAD BROTHERHOOD.2
2. A class of men of the same kind, profession, or occupation. NWAD BROTHERHOOD.3
BROTHERLESS, a. Without a brother. NWAD BROTHERLESS.1
BROTHERLIKE, a. Becoming a brother. NWAD BROTHERLIKE.1
BROTHERLOVE, n. Brotherly affection. NWAD BROTHERLOVE.1
BROTHERLY, a. Pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming brothers; kind; affectionate; as brotherly love. NWAD BROTHERLY.1
Shakespeare uses this word as an adverb. “I speak but brotherly.” But the use is not authorized. NWAD BROTHERLY.2
BROUGHT, pret. and ppr. of bring; pronounced braut. [See Bring.] NWAD BROUGHT.1
BROW, n. [L. palpebra. It is probably contracted from brg, and signifies an edge, border or projection.] NWAD BROW.1
1. The prominent ridge over the eye, forming an arch above the orbit. The skin of this arch or ridge is moved by muscles, which contract it in a frown and elevate it in joy or surprise. Hence, to know the brows, is to frown. NWAD BROW.2
2. The hair that covers the brow forming an arch, called the eye brow. NWAD BROW.3
3. The forehead. Hence, the general air of the countenance. NWAD BROW.4
4. The edge of a steep place, as the brink of a river or precipice; as the brow of a hill. NWAD BROW.5
5. A fringe of coppice, adjoining to the hedge of a field. NWAD BROW.6
BROW, v.t. To bound; to limit; to form the edge or border of. NWAD BROW.7
BROWN-ANTLER, n. [brow and antler.] The first start that grows on a deer’s head. NWAD BROWN-ANTLER.1
1. The branch of a deer’s horn next the tail. NWAD BROWN-ANTLER.2
BROW-BEAT, v.t. [brow and beat.] To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; or in general to bear down by impudence. NWAD BROW-BEAT.1
BROWBEATEN, pp. Overborne by impudence. NWAD BROWBEATEN.1
BROWBEATING, ppr. Overbearing with severe brows, stern looks, or positive assertions. NWAD BROWBEATING.1
BROWBEATING, n. A bearing down with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions. NWAD BROWBEATING.2
BROWBOUND, a. [brow and bound.] Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem. NWAD BROWBOUND.1
BROWLESS, a. Without shame. NWAD BROWLESS.1
BROW-POST, n. [brow and post.] Among builders, a beam that goes across a building. NWAD BROW-POST.1
BROW-SICK, a. [brow and sick.] Dejected; hanging the head. [Not used.] NWAD BROW-SICK.1
BROWN, a. Dusky; of a dark or dusky color, inclining to redness; but the shades are various, as Spanish brown, London brown, clove brown, tawny brown. Brown results from a mixture of red, black and yellow. NWAD BROWN.1
BROWN, v.t. To make brown or dusky. NWAD BROWN.2
A trembling twilight o’er the welkin moves, NWAD BROWN.3
Browns the dim void, and darkens deep the groves. NWAD BROWN.4
BROWN-BILL, n. [brown and bill.] A weapon formerly used by the English foot soldiers. The origin of the name is not stated; but from it brown musket is said to have derived its appellation. NWAD BROWN-BILL.1
BROWNISH, a. Somewhat brown; inclined to brown. NWAD BROWNISH.1
BROWNISM, n. The doctrines or religious creed of the Brownists, who maintained that any body of professing Christians united under one pastor, or communing together, constitute a church independent of any other. NWAD BROWNISM.1
BROWNIST, n. A follower of Robert Brown, a puritan, or dissenter from the Church of England, who left England with his congregation and settled at Middleburgh in Zealand. He was the head of a party of Independents in Church government. NWAD BROWNIST.1
BROWNNESS, n. A brown color. NWAD BROWNNESS.1
BROWN-SPAR, n. Pearl spar, or siderocalcite. NWAD BROWN-SPAR.1
BROWN-STUDY, n. [brown and study.] Gloomy study; dull thoughtfulness; meditation directed to no certain object. NWAD BROWN-STUDY.1
BROWN-WORT, n. [brown and wort.] A plant, prunella. NWAD BROWN-WORT.1
1. A species of Scrophularia, the vernalis, or yellow figwort, with brown stalks. NWAD BROWN-WORT.2
BROWNY, a. Brown. [Not used.] NWAD BROWNY.1
BROWSE, v.t. s as z. [Gr. to eat or browse; food, but probably these words may be from sprouts.] NWAD BROWSE.1
To eat the ends of branches of trees and shrubs or the young shoots, as cattle, or deer. NWAD BROWSE.2
BROWSE, v.i. s as z. To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs and trees, as cattle, sheep and goats. NWAD BROWSE.3
BROWSE, n. brows. The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals. NWAD BROWSE.4
BROWSING, ppr. s as z. Feeding on branches, shrubs, or shoots of trees. NWAD BROWSING.1
BRUCIA, BRUCINE, n. A new vegetable alkali, extracted from the bark of the false angustura. NWAD BRUCIA.1
BRUCITE, n. A mineral, the chondrodite of Berzelius, which sometimes occurs in grains or imperfect crystals, sometimes in four-sided prisms with rhombic bases. It is so named from the late Dr. Bruce, a distinguished mineralogist of New York. NWAD BRUCITE.1
BRUISE, v.t. s as z. To crush by beating or pounding with an instrument not edged or pointed. When applied to animal flesh or to vegetables, a bruise is a contusion that impairs the natural solidity and texture of the part, but often without breaking the skin. When applied to minerals and similar substances, it signifies to break them, and often to reduce them to a coarse powder. NWAD BRUISE.1
BRUISE, n. A contusion; a hurt upon the flesh of animals, upon plants or other bodies, with a blunt or heavy instrument. NWAD BRUISE.2
BRUISED, pp. Crushed; hurt or broken by a blunt or heavy instrument. NWAD BRUISED.1
BRUISER, n. A concave tool for grinding the specula of telescopes. NWAD BRUISER.1
1. In vulgar language, a boxer. NWAD BRUISER.2
BRUISEWORT, n. [bruise and wort.] A plant; comfrey. NWAD BRUISEWORT.1
BRUISING, ppr. Crushing; breaking or wounding by a blunt or heavy instrument. NWAD BRUISING.1
BRUISING, n. In popular language, a beating or boxing. NWAD BRUISING.2
BRUIT, n. Report; rumor; fame. NWAD BRUIT.1
BRUIT, v.t. To report; to noise abroad. NWAD BRUIT.2
BRUMAL, n. [L. bruma, winter, brumalis.] Belonging to the winter. NWAD BRUMAL.1
BRUME, n. Mist; fog; vapors. [Little used.] NWAD BRUME.1
BRUN, BURN, n. A river or stream. NWAD BRUN.1
BRUNET, BRUNETTE, n. A woman with a brown or dark complexion. NWAD BRUNET.1
BRUNION, n. A sort of fruit between a plum and a peach. NWAD BRUNION.1
Brunswick green. An ammoniaco-muriate of copper, used for paper hangings and in oil painting. NWAD BRUNION.2
BRUNT, n. NWAD BRUNT.1
1. The heat, or utmost violence of an onset; the strength or violence of any contention; as the brunt of a battle. NWAD BRUNT.2
2. The force of a blow; violence; shock of any kind. NWAD BRUNT.3
3. A sudden effort. NWAD BRUNT.4
BRUSH, n. NWAD BRUSH.1
1. An instrument for cleaning any thing of dust and dirt by light rubbing, as floors, furniture, boots, etc. Brushes originally were made of shrubs or small branches of trees tied together, and such are yet used for coarse purposes. But the materials most used are bristles set in wood. Painters use a small brush to lay colors on their large pieces. Silversmiths use a wire brush for scrubbing silver, copper or brass, in order to gilding; and there is a method of staining leather by rubbing the color on the skin with a brush. NWAD BRUSH.2
2. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood; a sense common in the U. States. NWAD BRUSH.3
3. The small trees and shrubs of a wood; or a thicket of small trees. NWAD BRUSH.4
4. A skirmish; a slight encounter; also, an assault; a shock, or rude treatment, from collision; as we say a scouring, a rub. NWAD BRUSH.5
5. In electricity, the luminous appearance of electric matter issuing in diverging rays from a point. NWAD BRUSH.6
6. A tail; as the brush of a fox. NWAD BRUSH.7
BRUSH, v.t. To sweep or rub with a brush; as, to brush a hat. NWAD BRUSH.8
1. To strike as with a brush; to strike lightly, by passing over the surface, without injury, or impression; as, to brush the arm in passing; to brush the briny flood. NWAD BRUSH.9
2. To paint with a brush; hence, to brush up is often used for cleansing in general. NWAD BRUSH.10
3. With off, to remove by brushing, as to brush off dust; also, to carry away by an act like that of brushing, or by passing over lightly, as by wind. NWAD BRUSH.11
4. To move as a brush; to pass over with a light contact. NWAD BRUSH.12
BRUSH, v.i. To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by. NWAD BRUSH.13
1. To move or skim over, with a slight contact, or without much impression. NWAD BRUSH.14
BRUSHED, pp. Rubbed with a brush; struck lightly. NWAD BRUSHED.1
BRUSHER, n. One who brushes. NWAD BRUSHER.1
BRUSHING, ppr. Sweeping or rubbing with a brush; striking gently; moving nimbly in haste; skimming over lightly. NWAD BRUSHING.1
BRUSHING, a. Brisk; light; as a brushing gallop. NWAD BRUSHING.2
BRUSHLIKE, a. [brush and like.] Resembling a brush. NWAD BRUSHLIKE.1
BRUSHWOOD, n. [brush and wood.] Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs; also, branches of trees cut off. NWAD BRUSHWOOD.1
BRUSHY, a. Resembling a brush; rough; shaggy; having long hair. NWAD BRUSHY.1
BRUSK, a. Rude; rough. NWAD BRUSK.1
BRUSTLE, v.i. brus’l. To crackle; to make a small crackling noise; to rustle, as a silk garment; to vapor, as a bully. NWAD BRUSTLE.1
BRUSTLING, ppr. Crackling; rustling; vaporing. NWAD BRUSTLING.1
BRUT, v.i. To browse. [Not in use.] NWAD BRUT.1
BRUTAL, a. [See Brute.] Pertaining to a brute; as brutal nature. NWAD BRUTAL.1
1. Savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling like a brute; merciless; as brutal courage; brutal manners. NWAD BRUTAL.2
BRUTALITY, n. Inhumanity; savageness; churlishness; insensibility to pity or shame. NWAD BRUTALITY.1
BRUTALIZE, v.t. To make brutal, churlish or inhuman. NWAD BRUTALIZE.1
All cruel punishments brutalize the heart. NWAD BRUTALIZE.2
BRUTALIZE, v.i. To become brutal, inhuman, or coarse and beastly. NWAD BRUTALIZE.3
BRUTALLY, adv. Cruelly; inhumanly; in a coarse, churlish, or brutal manner. NWAD BRUTALLY.1
BRUTE, a. [L. brutus, senseless, irrational.] NWAD BRUTE.1
1. Senseless; unconscious; as the brute earth. NWAD BRUTE.2
2. Irrational; ferine; as a brute beast. NWAD BRUTE.3
3. Bestial; in common with beasts; as brute violence. NWAD BRUTE.4
4. Rough; uncivilized; insensible; as a brute philosopher. NWAD BRUTE.5
BRUTE, n. A beast; any animal destitute of reason, and of course the word comprehends all animals except man, but is applied mostly to the larger beasts. NWAD BRUTE.6
1. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; a low bred, unfeeling man. NWAD BRUTE.7
BRUTE, v.t. for bruit, to report. [Not used.] NWAD BRUTE.8
BRUTELY, adv. In a rude manner. NWAD BRUTELY.1
BRUTENESS, n. Brutality. NWAD BRUTENESS.1
BRUTIFY, v.t. To make a person a brute; to make senseless, stupid or unfeeling. NWAD BRUTIFY.1
BRUTISH, a. Like a brute or beast; as a brutish form. NWAD BRUTISH.1
1. Insensible; stupid; as brutish men. NWAD BRUTISH.2
2. Unfeeling; savage; ferocious; brutal. NWAD BRUTISH.3
3. Gross; carnal; bestial. NWAD BRUTISH.4
4. Ignorant; uncivilized; untaught. NWAD BRUTISH.5
BRUTISHLY, adv. In the manner of a brute; grossly; irrationally; stupidly; savagely. NWAD BRUTISHLY.1
BRUTISHNESS, n. Stupidity; insensibility; brutality; savageness; the qualities of a brute. NWAD BRUTISHNESS.1
BRUTISM, n. The nature or characteristic qualitites or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity or beastly vulgarity. NWAD BRUTISM.1
BRYONY, n. [L. bryonia.] White jalap; a genus of plants of several species. The root of the rough or white bryony is a strong irritating cathartic. NWAD BRYONY.1
Black-bryony is a genus of plants, called Tamus. NWAD BRYONY.2
BUB, n. A cant word for strong malt liquor. NWAD BUB.1
BUB, v.t. To throw out in bubbles. [Not used.] NWAD BUB.2
BUBBLE, n. NWAD BUBBLE.1
1. A small bladder or vesicle of water or other fluid inflated with air. NWAD BUBBLE.2
2. Any thing that wants firmness or solidity; a vain project; that which is more specious than real. Hence, a false show; a cheat or fraud. NWAD BUBBLE.3
3. A delusive scheme of speculation; an empty project to raise money or imaginary grounds; as the South Sea bubble. NWAD BUBBLE.4
4. A person deceived by an empty project. NWAD BUBBLE.5
BUBBLE, v.i. To rise in bubbles, as liquors when boiling or agitated. NWAD BUBBLE.6
1. To run with a gurgling noise; as a bubbling stream. NWAD BUBBLE.7
BUBBLE, v.t. To cheat; to deceive or impose on. NWAD BUBBLE.8
BUBBLER, n. One who cheats. NWAD BUBBLER.1
BUBBY, n. [from the same root as bubble and bubo.] A woman’s breast. NWAD BUBBY.1
BUBO, n. [L. bubo, a swelling.] A tumor or abscess with inflammation, which rises in certain glandular parts of the body, as in the groin, or armpit. NWAD BUBO.1
BUBONOCELE, n. [Gr. the groin, and a tumor.] Hernia inguinalis, or inguinal rupture; a tumor in the groin, formed by a prolapsus of the intestines or omentum or both, through the processes of the peritoneum and rings of the abdominal muscles. NWAD BUBONOCELE.1
BUBUKLE, n. A red pimple. [Not used.] NWAD BUBUKLE.1
BUBULCA, n. A flat fresh-water fish, of a circular form and a silvery color. NWAD BUBULCA.1