Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 74
Brachiate (a.) (Bot.) Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.
Brachiate (a.) Having widely spreading paired branches; "maples are brachiate".
Brachiate (a.) Having arms or armlike appendages.
Brachiate (v.) Swing from one hold to the next; "the monkeys brachiate."
Brachiocephalic vein (n.) 頭臂靜脈 Veins formed by the union of the internal jugular and subclavian veins [syn: brachiocephalic vein, innominate vein, vena brachiocephalica].
Brachioganoid (n.) One of the Brachioganoidei.
Brachioganoidei (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.
Brachiolaria (n. pl.) (Zool.) A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia.
Brachiopod (n.) (Zool.) One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.
Brachiopod (a.) Of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda [syn: brachiopod, brachiopodous].
Brachiopod (n.) Marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide [syn: brachiopod, lamp shell, lampshell].
Brachiopoda (n.) (Zool.) A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.
Note: Within the shell is a pair of "arms," often long and spirally coiled, bearing rows of ciliated tentacles by which a current of water is made to flow into the mantle cavity, bringing the microscopic food to the mouth between the bases of the arms. The shell is both opened and closed by special muscles. They form two orders; Lyopoma, in which the shell is thin, and without a distinct hinge, as in Lingula; and Arthropoma, in which the firm calcareous shell has a regular hinge, as in Rhynchonella. See Arthropomata.
Brachiopoda (n.) Marine invertebrates that resemble mollusks [syn: Brachiopoda, phylum Brachiopoda].
Brachistochronen (n.) (Physics) 最速降線問題 Brachistochrone, The planar curve on which a body subjected only to the force of gravity will slide (without friction) between two points in the least possible time. Finding the curve was a problem first posed by Galileo. In the late 17th century the Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli issued a challenge to solve this problem. He and his older brother Jakob, along with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, and others, found the curve to be a cycloid. (See also calculus of variations; isoperimetric problem.)
Bracchia (n. pl. ) of Brachium.
Brachium (n.) (Anat.) 【解】肱；（鳥獸）相當於此部分的翅膀或肢；臂狀部分或隆起 The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.
Brachium (n.) (Biology) A branching or armlike part of an animal.
Brachman (n.) See Brahman. [Obs.]
Brahman, Brahmin (n.; pl. Brahmans, Brahmins.) A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindus.
Brahman bull (Zool.), The male of a variety of the zebu, or Indian ox, considered sacred by the Hindus.
Brahman, Brahmin (n.; pl. Brahmans, Brahmins.) A person from an old, respected, and usually wealthy family who has considerable social or political influence; -- a term used especially in New England; as, a Boston brahmin.
Brahman (n.) A member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family); "a Boston brahman" [syn: brahman, brahmin].
Brahman (n.) A member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas; "originally all brahmans were priests" [syn: brahman, brahmin].
Brahman (n.) The highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category [syn: brahman, brahmin].
Brahman (n.) Any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding [syn: Brahman, Brahma, Brahmin, Bos indicus].
Brachycatalectic (n.) (Gr. & Last. Pros.) A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.
Brachycephalic (a.) Alt. of Brachycephalous.
Brachycephalous (a.) Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.
Brachycephaly (n.) Alt. of Brachycephalism.
Brachycephalism (n.) (Anat.) The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.
Brachycephalism (n.) The quality of being brachycephalic [syn: brachycephaly, brachycephalism].
Brachyceral (a.) (Zool.) Having short antennae, as certain insects.
Brachydiagonal (a.) Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism.
Brachydiagonal axis, The shorter lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal.
Brachydiagonal (n.) The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism.
Brachydome (n.) (Crystallog.) A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.
Brachygrapher (n.) A writer in short hand; a stenographer.
He asked the brachygrapher whether he wrote the notes of the sermon. -- Gayton.
Brachygraphy (n.) Stenography. -- B. Jonson.
Brachylogy (n.) (Rhet.) Conciseness of expression; brevity.
Brachypinacoid (n.) (Crytallog.) A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.
Brachyptera (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.
Brachypteres (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins.
Brachypterous (a.) (Zool.) Having short wings.
Brachypterous (a.) (Especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings [syn: brachypterous, short-winged].
Brachystochrone (n.) (Math.) A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.
Brachytypous (a.) (Min.) Of a short form.
Brachyura (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix. Brachyural
Brachyura (n.) An order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface [syn: Brachyura, suborder Brachyura].
Brachyural (a.) Alt. of Brachyurous.
Brachyurous (a.) (Zool.) Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the Brachyura.
Brachyuran (n.) One of the Brachyura.
Brachyuran (n.) Typical crabs.
Bracing (a.) Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.
Bracing (n.) The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.
Bracing (n.) (Engin.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.
Bracing (a.) Imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air" [syn: bracing, brisk, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic].
Bracing (n.) A structural member used to stiffen a framework [syn: brace, bracing].
Brack (n.) An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
Stain or brack in her sweet reputation. -- J. Fletcher.
Brack (n.) Salt or brackish water. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Bracken (n.) A brake or fern. -- Sir W. Scott.
Bracken (n.) Fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions [syn: bracken, Pteridium esculentum].
Bracken (n.) Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan [syn: bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum].
Bracken -- U.S. County in Kentucky
Population (2000): 8279
Housing Units (2000): 3715
Land area (2000): 203.218425 sq. miles (526.333281 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 5.674273 sq. miles (14.696299 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 208.892698 sq. miles (541.029580 sq. km)
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.731039 N, 84.080939 W
Headwords:
Bracken
Bracken, KY
Bracken County
Bracken County, KY
Bracket (n.) (Arch.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
Note: This is the more general word. See Brace, Cantalever, Console, Corbel, Strut.
Bracket (n.) (Engin. & Mech.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
Bracket (n.) (Naut.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
Bracket (n.) (Mil.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
Bracket (n.) (Print.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.
Bracket (n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
Bracket (n.) (Gunnery) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called fork.
Bracket light, A gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall, column, etc.
Bracket (v. t.) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
Bracket (v. t.) (Gunnery) To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an object).
Bracket (n.) A category falling within certain defined limits.
Bracket (n.) Either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material [syn: bracket, angle bracket].
Bracket (n.) Either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material [syn: bracket, square bracket].
Bracket (n.) A support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) [syn: bracket, wall bracket].
Bracket (v.) Support with brackets; "bracket bookshelves".
Bracket (v.) Place into brackets; "Please bracket this remark" [syn: bracket, bracket out].
Bracket (v.) Classify or group.
Bracket, () (Or square bracket) A left bracket or right bracket.
Often used loosely for parentheses, square brackets, braces, angle brackets, or any other kind of unequal paired delimiters.
(1996-09-08)
Bracketed (imp. & p. p.) of Bracket.
Bracketing (n.) (Arch.) A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
Bracketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bracket.
Bracketology (n.) The practice of predicting the field of the NCAA basketball tournament; by extension, parsing things into discrete one-on-one matchups to determine a winner. 1998, also Bracketologist (n.).
Brackish (a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.
Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be. -- Byron.
Brackish (a.) Distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin brackish gruel".
Brackish (a.) Slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep" [syn: brackish, briny].
Brackishness (n.) The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.
Brackishness (n.) The quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water.
Bracky (a.) Brackish. -- Drayton.
Bract (n.) (Bot.) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.
Bract (n.) (Bot.) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.
Note: Bracts are often inconspicuous, but sometimes large and showy, or highly colored, as in many cactaceous plants.
The spathes of aroid plants are conspicuous forms of bracts.
Bract (n.) A modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence.
Bractea (n.) (Bot.) A bract.
Bracteal (a.) Having the nature or appearance of a bract.
Bracteal (a.) Pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract.
Bracteate (a.) (Bot.) Having a bract or bracts.
Bracteate (a.) Having bracts [syn: bracteate, bracted] [ant: ebracteate].
Bracted (a.) (Bot.) Furnished with bracts.
Bracted (a.) Having bracts [syn: bracteate, bracted] [ant: ebracteate].
Bracteolate (a.) Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.
Bracteole (n.) Same as Bractlet.
Bractless (a.) Destitute of bracts.
Bractlet (n.) A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.
Brad (n.) A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.
Brad awl (n.) A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc.
Bradoon (n.) Same as Bridoon.
Brae (n.) A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.
Bragged (imp. & p. p.) of Brag.
Bragging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brag.
Brag (v. i.) To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do.
Brag (v. t.) To boast of.
Brag (n.) A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification.
Brag (n.) The thing which is boasted of.
Brag (n.) A game at cards similar to bluff.
Brag (v. i.) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
Brag (adv.) Proudly; boastfully.
Braggadocio (n.) A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.
Braggadocio (n.) Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.
Braggardism (n.) Boastfulness; act of bragging.
Braggart (v. i.) A boaster.
Braggart (a.) Boastful.
Bragger (n.) One who brags; a boaster.
Bragget (n.) A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc.
Braggingly (adv.) Boastingly.
Bragless (a.) Without bragging.
Bragly (adv.) In a manner to be bragged of; finely; proudly.
Brahma (n.) The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.
Brahma (n.) A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra.
Brahmans (n. pl. ) of Brahmin.
Brahmins (n. pl. ) of Brahmin.
Brahman (n.) Alt. of Brahmin.
Brahmin (n.) A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos.
Brahmaness (n.) A Brahmani.
Brahmani (n.) Any Brahman woman.
Brahmanic, -ical, Brahminic, -ical, (a.) 婆羅門（教）的 Of or pertaining to the Brahmans or to their doctrines and worship. Brahmanism
Brahmanism (n.) Alt. of Brahminism.
Brahminism (n.) 婆羅門教（= Brahmanism）；（社會優秀分子的）孤高特性，優越感 The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma. Brahmanist
Brahminism (n.) The religious and social system of orthodox Hinduism [syn: Brahmanism, Brahminism].
Brahminism (n.) The religious beliefs of ancient India as prescribed in the sacred Vedas and Brahmanas and Upanishads [syn: Brahmanism, Brahminism].
Brahmanist (n.) Alt. of Brahminist.
Brahminist (n.) An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.
Brahmoism (n.) The religious system of Brahmo-somaj.