Brothelry: Definition and part of speech

Brothelry

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.
n. A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
n. One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; — used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.

n. A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.

n. A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

n. An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.

a. Boldness; impudence; “brass.”
a. An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.
a. A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.
a. A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.

p. pr. & vb. n. of Bronze
n. The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes.

n. An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; — so called from its bronze plumage.