| 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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