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- English Word Bruh Definition The rhesus monkey. See Rhesus.
- English Word Bruin Definition A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.
- English Word Bruise Definition To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.
- English Word Bruise Definition To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
- English Word Bruise Definition To fight with the fists; to box.
- English Word Bruise Definition An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.
- English Word Bruised Definition of Bruise
- English Word Bruiser Definition One who, or that which, bruises.
- English Word Bruiser Definition A boxer; a pugilist.
- English Word Bruiser Definition A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.
- English Word Bruisewort Definition A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
- English Word Bruising Definition of Bruise
- English Word Bruit Definition Report; rumor; fame.
- English Word Bruit Definition An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.
- English Word Bruit Definition To report; to noise abroad.
- English Word Bruited Definition of Bruit
- English Word Bruiting Definition of Bruit
- English Word Brumaire Definition The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.
- English Word Brumal Definition Of or pertaining to winter.
- English Word Brume Definition Mist; fog; vapors.
- English Word Brummagem Definition Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham.
- English Word Brumous Definition Foggy; misty.
- English Word Brun Definition Same as Brun, a brook.
- English Word Brunette Definition A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.
- English Word Brunette Definition Having a dark tint.
- English Word Brunion Definition A nectarine.
- English Word Brunonian Definition Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.
- English Word Brunswick black Definition See Japan black.
- English Word Brunswick green Definition An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
- English Word Brunt Definition The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.