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  • English Word Brazil wood Definition The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan; -- so called before the discovery of America.
  • English Word Brazil wood Definition A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An inferior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named.
  • English Word Braziletto Definition See Brazil wood.
  • English Word Brazilian Definition Of or pertaining to Brazil.
  • English Word Brazilian Definition A native or an inhabitant of Brazil.
  • English Word Brazilin Definition A substance contained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies.
  • English Word Brazing Definition of Braze
  • English Word Breach Definition The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
  • English Word Breach Definition Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
  • English Word Breach Definition A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.
  • English Word Breach Definition A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
  • English Word Breach Definition A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
  • English Word Breach Definition A bruise; a wound.
  • English Word Breach Definition A hernia; a rupture.
  • English Word Breach Definition A breaking out upon; an assault.
  • English Word Breach Definition To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
  • English Word Breach Definition To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
  • English Word Breached Definition of Breach
  • English Word Breaching Definition of Breach
  • English Word Breachy Definition Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.
  • English Word Bread Definition To spread.
  • English Word Bread Definition An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
  • English Word Bread Definition Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
  • English Word Bread Definition To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.
  • English Word Breadbasket Definition The stomach.
  • English Word Breadcorn Definition Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.
  • English Word Breaded Definition Braided
  • English Word Breaden Definition Made of bread.
  • English Word Breadfruit Definition The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.
  • English Word Breadfruit Definition The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree.