Brawn: Definition and part of speech

Brawn

  1. n. A boar.
  2. n. A muscle; flesh.
  3. n. Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.
  4. n. The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.

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.

Brash: Definition and part of speech

Brash

  1. n. Broken fragments of ice.
  2. a. Hasty in temper; impetuous.
  3. a. Brittle, as wood or vegetables.
  4. n. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
  5. n. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.
  6. n. Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.
  7. 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.

Brass: Definition and part of speech

Brass

  1. n. Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.
  2. n. An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.
  3. n. A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.
  4. n. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
  5. n. Impudence; a brazen face.
  6. n. Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.
  7. n. A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.

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.

Brassart: Definition and part of speech

Brassart

  1. n. Armor for the arm; — generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.

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.