Index of English words, starting with "br"

(1) - Breakwater (n.) Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.

(1) - Bream (v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.
(2) - Bream (n.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.
(3) - Bream (n.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.
(4) - Bream (n.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.

(1) - Breast (n.) A torus.
(2) - Breast (v. t.) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
(3) - Breast (n.) The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.
(4) - Breast (n.) The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.
(5) - Breast (n.) The front of a furnace.
(6) - Breast (n.) The face of a coal working.
(7) - Breast (n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill.
(8) - Breast (n.) Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.
(9) - Breast (n.) The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

(1) - Breastbone (n.) The bone of the breast; the sternum.

(1) - Breath (n.) Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.
(2) - Breath (n.) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.
(3) - Breath (n.) A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion.
(4) - Breath (n.) A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle.
(5) - Breath (n.) Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life.
(6) - Breath (n.) A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant.
(7) - Breath (n.) Time to breathe; respite; pause.
(8) - Breath (n.) The power of respiration, and hence, life.
(9) - Breath (n.) The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath.
(10) - Breath (n.) The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc.