Index of English words, starting with "br"

(1) - Brisket (n.) That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.

(1) - Briskly (adv.) In a brisk manner; nimbly.

(1) - Briskness (n.) Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.

(1) - Bristle (v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.
(2) - Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
(3) - Bristle (v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
(4) - Bristle (v. t.) To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
(5) - Bristle (v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.
(6) - Bristle (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
(7) - Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.