Index of English words, starting with "br"

(1) - Bronze (n.) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
(2) - Bronze (n.) To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.
(3) - Bronze (a.) Boldness; impudence; "brass."
(4) - Bronze (a.) A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.
(5) - Bronze (a.) A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.
(6) - Bronze (a.) An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.

(1) - Bronzy (a.) Like bronze.

(1) - Brooch (imp. & p. p.) To adorn as with a brooch.
(2) - Brooch (n.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.
(3) - Brooch (n.) An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.

(1) - Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.
(2) - Brood (v. t.) To cherish with care.
(3) - Brood (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
(4) - Brood (v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
(5) - Brood (v. i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
(6) - Brood (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
(7) - Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
(8) - Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
(9) - Brood (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
(10) - Brood (v. t.) The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
(11) - Brood (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.