BPage 249
- English Word Brake Definition An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- English Word Brake Definition A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.
- English Word Brake Definition An ancient instrument of torture.
- English Word Brake Definition of Break
- English Word Brakeman Definition A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
- English Word Brakeman Definition The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
- English Word Brakemen Definition of Brakeman
- English Word Braky Definition Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.
- English Word Brama Definition See Brahma.
- English Word Bramah press Definition A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic.
- English Word Bramble Definition Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.
- English Word Bramble Definition The brambling or bramble finch.
- English Word Bramble bush Definition The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.
- English Word Bramble net Definition A net to catch birds.
- English Word Brambled Definition Overgrown with brambles.
- English Word Brambling Definition The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.
- English Word Brambly Definition Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles.
- English Word Brame Definition Sharp passion; vexation.
- English Word Bramin Definition Alt. of Braminic
- English Word Braminic Definition See Brahman, Brachmanic, etc.
- English Word Bran Definition The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
- English Word Bran Definition The European carrion crow.
- English Word Bran-new Definition See Brand-new.
- English Word Brancard Definition A litter on which a person may be carried.
- English Word Branch Definition A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
- English Word Branch Definition Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.
- English Word Branch Definition Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
- English Word Branch Definition One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
- English Word Branch Definition A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.
- English Word Branch Definition A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.