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- English Word Brahmin Definition A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos.
- English Word Brahminic Definition Alt. of ical
- English Word Brahminism Definition The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma.
- English Word Brahminist Definition An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.
- English Word Brahmins Definition of Brahmin
- English Word Brahmo-somaj Definition A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindoos.
- English Word Brahmoism Definition The religious system of Brahmo-somaj.
- English Word Braid Definition To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait.
- English Word Braid Definition To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.
- English Word Braid Definition To reproach. [Obs.] See Upbraid.
- English Word Braid Definition A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands.
- English Word Braid Definition A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.
- English Word Braid Definition A quick motion; a start.
- English Word Braid Definition A fancy; freak; caprice.
- English Word Braid Definition To start; to awake.
- English Word Braid Definition Deceitful.
- English Word Braided Definition of Braid
- English Word Braiding Definition of Braid
- English Word Braiding Definition The act of making or using braids.
- English Word Braiding Definition Braids, collectively; trimming.
- English Word Brail Definition A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
- English Word Brail Definition Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
- English Word Brail Definition A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
- English Word Brail Definition To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
- English Word Brain Definition The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
- English Word Brain Definition The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
- English Word Brain Definition The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
- English Word Brain Definition The affections; fancy; imagination.
- English Word Brain Definition To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
- English Word Brain Definition To conceive; to understand.