Helen Fenton

Brail: Definition and part of speech

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Brail

  1. v. t. To haul up by the brails; — used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
  2. n. A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk’s wing.
  3. n. Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
  4. n. A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.

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.

Brain: Definition and part of speech

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Brain

  1. n. The affections; fancy; imagination.
  2. n. The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
  3. n. The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
  4. n. The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.

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.