Helen Fenton

Bridle: Definition and part of speech

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Bridle

  1. n. A mooring hawser.
  2. n. The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.
  3. n. A restraint; a curb; a check.
  4. n. The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.
  5. n. A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.

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.

Bridle iron: Definition and part of speech

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Bridle iron

  1. A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; — called also stirrup and hanger.

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.

Bridoon: Definition and part of speech

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Bridoon

  1. n. The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein.

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.

Brief: Definition and part of speech

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Brief

  1. v. t. To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.
  2. a. Short in duration.
  3. a. Concise; terse; succinct.
  4. a. Rife; common; prevalent.
  5. adv. Briefly.
  6. adv. Soon; quickly.
  7. a. A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.
  8. a. An epitome.
  9. a. An abridgment or concise statement of a client’s case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.
  10. a. A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.
  11. 1v. t. 1 To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.
  12. 1a. 1 Short in duration.

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.