a. [ L. abruptus, p. p. of abrumpere to break off; ab + rumpere to break. See Rupture. ] 1. Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. “Tumbling through ricks abrupt, ” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. “The cause of your abrupt departure.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected. [ 1913 Webster ]

The abrupt style, which hath many breaches. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sudden; unexpected; hasty; rough; curt; unceremonious; rugged; blunt; disconnected; broken. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abruptum. ] An abrupt place. [ Poetic ] “Over the vast abrupt.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tear off or asunder. [ Obs. ] “Till death abrupts them.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abruptio, fr. abrumpere: cf. F. abruption. ] A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Precipitously. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. (Bot.) pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex, i.e. without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end; -- said of a leaf shape
Syn. -- even-pinnate, paripinnate [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 an administrative region of Italy.
Syn. -- Abruzzi e Molise [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. 1. to paint with an airbrush. The old car looks like new now that we airbrushed it [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to alter or remove by use of an airbrush. “After the photographer airbrushed out the wrinkles on her face she looked twenty years younger.” [ PJC ]

. A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter, such as paint, in a spray by compressed air. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) The Malayan sun bear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. brucine, fr. James Bruce, a Scottish traveler. ] (Chem.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Dr. A. Bruce of New York. ] (Min.) (a) A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate. (b) The mineral chondrodite. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wet and dirty; begrimed. [ Obs. or Dial. ] Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of plants of the nightshade family, including some plants often placed in the genus Datura, such as the angel's trumpets.
Syn. -- genus Brugmansia. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. (Zool.) [ Native name. ] The rhesus monkey. See Rhesus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. bruin brown. In the epic poem of “Reynard the Fox” the bear is so called from his color. See Brown, a. ] A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bruised p. pr. & vb. n. Bruising. ] [ OE. brusen, brisen, brosen, bresen, AS. br&unr_;san or fr. OF. bruiser, bruisier, bruser, to break, shiver, perh. from OHG. brochisōn. Cf. Break, v. t. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To pulverize; bray; triturate; pound; contuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To fight with the fists; to box. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises. Isa. i. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. suffering from emotional injury; as, a bruised ego.
Syn. -- hurt, wounded. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. injured without breaking the skin; as, a cut forehead and bruised cheek.
Syn. -- contused, contusioned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, bruises. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A boxer; a pugilist; hence, a strong, tough person; -- often used in the phrase
big bruiser. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a new bruiser on Broughtonic sand,
Amid the lists our hero takes his stand. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bruit, brut, noise, bruit, F. bruit, fr. LL. brugitus; cf. L. rugire to roar; perh. influenced by the source of E. bray to make a harsh noise, Armor. brud bruit. ] 1. Report; rumor; fame. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bruit thereof will bring you many friends. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. fld>(Med.) An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bruited; p. pr. & vb. n. Bruiting. ] To report; to noise abroad. [ 1913 Webster ]

I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. L. bruma winter. ] The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. brumalis, fr. bruma winter: cf. F. brumal. ] Of or pertaining to winter. “The brumal solstice.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. brume winter season, mist, L. bruma winter. ] Mist; fog; vapors. “The drifting brume.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Birmingham (formerly Bromwycham), Eng., “the great mart and manufactory of gilt toys, cheap jewelry, ” etc. ] Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [ Slang ] “These Brummagem gentry.” Lady D. Hardy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Foggy; misty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Broun a brook. ] Same as Brun, a brook. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a late breakfast or an early lunch. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a sultanate in Northwestern Borneo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Brunei; as, Bruneian oil production. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a native or inhabitant of Brunei. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. being or having dark-colored skin and hair; contrasted with blond. [ Narrower terms: adust, sunburned burned brown by the sun; black, brown; black-haired, dark-haired; browned, suntanned, tanned; grizzled, roan; nutbrown ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. brunet, brunette, brownish, dim. of brun, brune, brown, fr. OHG. br&unr_;n. See Brown, a. ] A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion. -- a. Having a dark tint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. brugnon (cf. It. brugna, prugna), fr. L. prunum. See Prune, n. ] A nectarine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Japan black. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ G. Braunschweiger grün, first made at Brunswick, in Germany. ] An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. Burn, v. t. ] 1. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. “And heavy brunt of cannon ball.” Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brusche, OF. broche, broce, brosse, brushwood, F. brosse brush, LL. brustia, bruscia, fr. OHG. brusta, brust, bristle, G. borste bristle, bürste brush. See Bristle, n., and cf. Browse. ] 1. An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The bushy tail of a fox. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A tuft of hair on the mandibles. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. land covered with brush{ 5 }; in Australia, a dense growth of vegetation in good soil, including shrubs and trees, mostly small. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

7. (Elec.) A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ As leaves ] have with one winter's brush
Fell from their boughts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy; a brush with the law. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong,
And tempt not yet the brushes of the war. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A short contest, or trial, of speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let us enjoy a brush across the country. Cornhill Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

Electrical brush, a form of the electric discharge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brushed p. pr. & vb. n. Brushing. ] [ OE. bruschen; cf. F. brosser. See Brush, n. ] 1. To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush. “A' brushes his hat o' mornings.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some spread their sailes, some with strong oars sweep
The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off. [ 1913 Webster ]

As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed
With raven's feather from unwholesome fen. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And from the boughts brush off the evil dew. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To brush aside, to remove from one's way, as with a brush. --
To brush away, to remove, as with a brush or brushing motion. --
To brush up, to paint, or make clean or bright with a brush; to cleanse or improve; to renew. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have commissioned me to paint your shop, and I have done my best to brush you up like your neighbors. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by. [ 1913 Webster ]

Snatching his hat, he brushed off like the wind. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. p. p. of brush. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having a soft nap produced by brushing; as, a dress of brushed cotton. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, brushes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From George J. Brush, an American mineralogist. ] (Min.) A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium. [ 1913 Webster ]