briard | (noun) old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat | - |
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briarroot | (noun) hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea | - |
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briarwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: brier-wood, brierwood |
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bribe | (noun) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | Synonyms: payoff |
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briber | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: suborner |
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bribery | (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: graft |
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brick | (noun) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material | - |
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(noun) a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy | - |
brickbat | (noun) blunt criticism | - |
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(noun) a fragment of brick used as a weapon | - |
brickfield | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickyard |
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brickkiln | (noun) a kiln for making bricks | - |
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bricklayer | (noun) a craftsman skilled in building with bricks | - |
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bricklaying | (noun) the craft of laying bricks | - |
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brickwork | (noun) masonry done with bricks and mortar | - |
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brickyard | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickfield |
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bricolage | (noun) construction of something by whatever material are available | - |
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bricole | (noun) catapult operated by manpower pulling cords attached to a lever and slign to launch projectiles | Synonyms: mangonel, traction trebuchet |
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bridal | (noun) archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast | Synonyms: espousal |
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bride | (noun) a woman who has recently been married | - |
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(noun) a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony | - |
bridecake | (noun) a rich cake with two or more tiers and covered with frosting and decorations; served at a wedding reception | Synonyms: wedding cake |
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bridegroom | (noun) a man who has recently been married | Synonyms: groom |
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(noun) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony | Synonyms: groom |
bridesmaid | (noun) an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding | Synonyms: maid of honor |
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bridge | (noun) any of various card games based on whist for four players | - |
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(noun) a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. | Synonyms: span |
(noun) an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands | Synonyms: bridge deck |
(noun) the link between two lenses; rests on the nose | Synonyms: nosepiece |
(noun) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth | Synonyms: bridgework |
(noun) a wooden support that holds the strings up | - |
(noun) a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected | Synonyms: bridge circuit |
(noun) the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose | - |
(noun) something resembling a bridge in form or function | - |
bridgehead | (noun) an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies | Synonyms: foothold |
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(noun) a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy | - |
bridgework | (noun) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth | Synonyms: bridge |
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bridle | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: check, curb |
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(noun) headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control | - |
bridoon | (noun) a bit resembling a snaffle bit; used with a separate curb | - |
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brief | (noun) a condensed written summary or abstract | - |
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(noun) a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case | Synonyms: legal brief |
briefcase | (noun) a case with a handle; for carrying papers or files or books | - |
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briefing | (noun) detailed instructions, as for a military operation | - |
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briefness | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: brevity, transience |
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(noun) the temporal property of being very short | - |
briefs | (noun) (used in the plural) short tight-fitting underpants (trade name Jockey shorts) | Synonyms: Jockey shorts |
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brier | (noun) evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briar, Erica arborea, tree heath |
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(noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
(noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
(noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier patch, brierpatch |
(noun) a thorny stem or twig | - |
brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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brierwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briarwood, brier-wood |
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brig | (noun) a penal institution (especially on board a ship) | - |
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(noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts | - |
brigade | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, typically consisting of a small number of battalions | - |
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brigadier | (noun) a general officer ranking below a major general | Synonyms: brigadier general |
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brigand | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: bandit |
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brigandine | (noun) a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth | - |
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brigantine | (noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast | Synonyms: hermaphrodite brig |
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brightness | (noun) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white | - |
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(noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
(noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: cleverness, smartness |
brill | (noun) European food fish | Synonyms: Scophthalmus rhombus |
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brilliance | (noun) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted | Synonyms: blaze, glare |
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(noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
(noun) unusual mental ability | Synonyms: genius |
brilliancy | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: luster, lustre, splendor, splendour |
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brilliantine | (noun) a pomade to make the hair manageable and lustrous | - |
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brim | (noun) a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat | - |
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(noun) the top edge of a vessel or other container | Synonyms: lip, rim |
brimstone | (noun) an old name for sulfur | Synonyms: native sulfur, native sulphur |
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brine | (noun) a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling | - |
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(noun) water containing salts | Synonyms: saltwater, seawater |
bringing | (noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: delivery |
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brininess | (noun) the relative proportion of salt in a solution | Synonyms: salinity |
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brinjal | (noun) hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable | Synonyms: aubergine, eggplant, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum melongena |
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brink | (noun) the limit beyond which something happens or changes | Synonyms: verge |
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(noun) the edge of a steep place | - |
(noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: threshold, verge |
brinkmanship | (noun) the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | - |
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briny | (noun) any very large body of (salt) water | Synonyms: main |
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brio | (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: animation, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification |
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brioche | (noun) a light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet | - |
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briony | (noun) a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties | Synonyms: bryony |
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briquet | (noun) a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel | Synonyms: briquette |
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briquette | (noun) a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel | Synonyms: briquet |
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brisance | (noun) the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion | - |
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brisket | (noun) a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef | - |
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briskness | (noun) liveliness and eagerness | Synonyms: alacrity, smartness |
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brisling | (noun) small herring processed like a sardine | Synonyms: Clupea sprattus, sprat |
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(noun) small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines | Synonyms: sprat |
bristle | (noun) a stiff hair | - |
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(noun) a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic | - |
bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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bristletail | (noun) small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail | - |
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bristliness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: prickliness, spininess, thorniness |
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brit | (noun) the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish | Synonyms: britt |
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(noun) minute crustaceans forming food for right whales | Synonyms: britt |
britches | (noun) (used in the plural) informal term for breeches | - |
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britt | (noun) the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish | Synonyms: brit |
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(noun) minute crustaceans forming food for right whales | Synonyms: brit |
brittle | (noun) caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets | Synonyms: toffee, toffy |
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brittlebush | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, Encelia farinosa, incienso |
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brittleness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: crispiness, crispness |
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broach | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, brooch |
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broad | (noun) slang term for a woman | - |
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broadax | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadaxe |
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broadaxe | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadax |
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broadbill | (noun) small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills | - |
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(noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, shoveler, shoveller |
(noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, scaup, scaup duck |
(noun) tropical American heron related to night herons | Synonyms: boat-billed heron, boatbill, Cochlearius cochlearius |
broadcast | (noun) message that is transmitted by radio or television | - |
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(noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: program, programme |
broadcaster | (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: spreader |
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(noun) someone who broadcasts on radio or television | - |
broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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(noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
broadcloth | (noun) a closely woven silk or synthetic fabric with a narrow crosswise rib | - |
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(noun) a densely textured woolen fabric with a lustrous finish | - |
broadening | (noun) the action of making broader | - |
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(noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: widening |
(noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: widening |
broadloom | (noun) a carpet woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams | - |
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broadness | (noun) the property of being wide; having great width | Synonyms: wideness |
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broadsheet | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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broadside | (noun) the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship | - |
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(noun) the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern | - |
(noun) all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship | - |
(noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
(noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: philippic, tirade |
broadsword | (noun) a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab | - |
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broadtail | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: caracul, karakul |
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(noun) the fur of a very young karakul lamb | - |
brocade | (noun) thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern | - |
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broccoli | (noun) branched green undeveloped flower heads | - |
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(noun) plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea italica |
brochette | (noun) a small spit or skewer | - |
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brochure | (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, folder, leaflet, pamphlet |
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brocket | (noun) small South American deer with unbranched antlers | - |
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(noun) male red deer in its second year | - |
brodiaea | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Brodiaea having basal grasslike leaves and globose flower heads on leafless stems resembling those of genus Allium | - |
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brogan | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogue, clodhopper, work shoe |
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brogue | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, clodhopper, work shoe |
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broil | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broiling, grilling |
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broiler | (noun) an oven or part of a stove used for broiling | - |
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(noun) flesh of a small young chicken not over 2 1/2 lb suitable for broiling | - |
broiling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, grilling |
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