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n. Besom.
Broth, n. Soup (in which meat has been macerated).
Brothel, n. Bagnio, stew, bawdy-house, whore-house, house of prostitution, house of ill-fame.
Brotherhood, n.
1. Relation of a brother, mutual kindness (as of brothers).
2. Fraternity, ASSOCIATION, sodality, society, CLIQUE, coterie, clan, JUNTO.
Brotherly, a. Fraternal, affectionate, kind, amicable, friendly, cordial.
Brow, n.
1. Forehead.
2. Edge (as of a precipice), brink, border.
Browbeat, v. a. Bully, overbear, treat insolently.
Brown study, Reverie, musing, abstraction, preoccupation, absence, absence of mind.
Browse, n. Tender twigs of shrubs and trees.
Browse, v. a. Nibble, crop, feed upon.
Browse, v. n.
1. Feed on browse.
2. [Colloquial.] Live precariously.
Bruin, n. [Colloquial.] Bear.
Bruise, v. a.
1. Crush, squeeze, contuse.
2. Break, batter, pound, bray, pulverize, comminute, triturate, break to pieces.
Bruise, n. Contusion.
Bruit, n. Rumor, fame, report, hearsay, town-talk.
Bruit, v. a. Report, noise, blaze or spread abroad.
Brunt, n. Shock, heat of onset.
Brush, n.
1. Skirmish, engagement, rencounter, encounter, battle, contest, fight, conflict, collision, action, affair.
2. Thicket, bushes, shrubs, brushwood.
Brushwood, n. Underwood, shrubs, bushes, brush.
Brusque, a. [Fr.] Rude, rough, blunt, unceremonious, abrupt, bluff, gruff, ungentle, uncivil, ungracious, bearish, discourteous, uncourteous, impolite.
Brutal, a.
1. Savage, ferocious, cruel, inhuman, unfeeling, barbarous, barbarian, fell, barbaric, ruthless, truculent, bloody, brutish, brute.
2. Churlish, gruff, bearish, harsh, uncivil, rude, rough, impolite, unmannerly, BRUSQUE, ungentlemanly.
3. Gross, coarse, sensual, carnal, brutish, beastly, bestial.
Brutality, n. Savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty, brutishness, ferocity, truculence, hardness of heart.
Brute, n.
1. Beast (in a wild state), quadruped, four-footed animal, ferocious animal.
2. Ruffian, barbarian, brutal monster.
Brute, a.
1. Irrational, void of reason.
2. Bestial, savage, barbarous, BRUTAL.
3. Rough, rude, uncivilized.
Brutish, a.
1. Brutal.
2. Irrational, brute.
3. Stupid, dull, insensible.
4. Gross, carnal, sensual, bestial, beastly.
Brutum fulmen, [L.] Harmless thunderbolt, loud but harmless threatening, empty sound.
Bubble, n.
1. Water bladder.
2. Trifle, bagatelle, small matter.
3. Cheat, delusion, hoax, false show.
Buccaneer, n. Pirate, corsair, sea-rover, sea-robber, freebooter, picaroon.
Buck, n.
1. Male (of the deer, sheep, goat, rabbit, and hare).
2. Blade, spark, gallant; gay, dashing fellow.
Buckish, a. Gay, dashing.
Buckle, v. a. Fasten with a buckle.
Buckle, v. n.
1. Bend, bow.
2. [Rare.] Struggle, contend, strive.
Buckle one's self, Apply vigorously, set one's self earnestly.
Buckler, n.
1. Shield, ægis.
2. Defence, protection, safeguard.
Bucolic, n. Eclogue, pastoral, idyl, pastoral poem.
Bucolic, a. Pastoral, rustic.
Bucolical, a. Pastoral, rustic.
Bud, n. Germ, gem, undeveloped branch or flower.
Bud, v. n. Sprout, shoot, push, germinate, vegetate, pullulate, put forth, burst forth, shoot forth.
Budge, v. n. Stir, move, go.
Budget, n.
1. Bag (with its contents), pack, packet, parcel, package, bundle, roll.
2. Stock, store, batch, lot, set, assortment, collection.
Buff, n. Buff-skin.
Buff, a.
1. Light yellow.
2. Made of buff or buff-skin.
Buffalo, n. [U. S.] Bison.
Buffet, n.
1. Slap, box, knock, rap, blow, cuff.
2. Cupboard.
Buffet, v. a.
1. Beat, box, strike, smite, cuff.
2. Struggle against, contend against.
Buffle-headed, a. Dull, stupid, doltish, foolish, blockish, simple, witless, thick-skulled.
Buffoon, n. Mountebank, harlequin, jester, droll, merry Andrew, punch, punchinello, clown, zany, scaramouch, fool, antic, jack-pudding, pickle-herring.
Buffoonery, n. Jesting (of a low sort), mummery, foolery, tomfoolery, harlequinade, low pranks, vulgar tricks.
Buff-skin, n. Buff.
Bugaboo, n. [Low.] Bugbear.
Bugbear, n. Hobgoblin, spectre, ogre, BUGABOO, POKER, Gorgon, Hydra, frightful object, raw head and bloody bones.
Buggery, n. Sodomy, unnatural carnal intercourse.
Build, v. a. Construct, erect, raise, fabricate.
Build, v. n. Construct edifices.
Build upon, Depend on, rest on, rely upon, calculate upon, reckon upon, count upon.
Building, n.
1. Construction.
2. Structure, edifice, erection, fabric, pile.
Bulb, n.
1. (Bot.) Scaly bud (like the onion and the tulip).
2. Spherical protuberance.
Bulbous, a.
1. (Bot.) Of the nature of the bulb.
2. Round, roundish, protuberant, swelling out.
Bulbul, n. Persian nightingale (Pyconotus jocosus).
Bulge, n. Protuberance, bilge, belly, swell, swelling.
Bulge, v. n. Protrude, jut out.
Bulk, n.
1. Magnitude, size, volume, greatness, largeness, bigness, bulkiness, amplitude, mass, massiveness, dimensions.
2. Body, gross, majority, main part, greater part, principal part.
Bulkhead, n. (Naut.) Partition, dividing wall.
Bulky, a. Large, great, big, huge, vast, of great size or bulk.
Bull, n.
1. Male of bovine animals.
2. Edict (issued by the Pope), rescript.
3. Blunder (involving a contradiction), gross mistake.
4. (Astron.) Taurus.
Bull-head, n.
1. Blockhead, simpleton, fool, DUNCE.
2. Horn-pout, mud-pout, cat-fish (Pimelodus cattus).
Bully, n. Blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, hector, fire-eater, Hotspur, mock hero.
Bully, v. a. Browbeat, overbear, treat insolently.Bullying, a. Blustering, swaggering, vaporing, vaunting, hectoring, bluff, gruff, bearish.Bullying, n. Blustering, swaggering, bluster, fanfaronade.Bulwark, n. 1. Rampart, redoubt, fortification.2. Security, safeguard, palladium.Bumble-bee, n. Humble-bee.Bummer, n. [Colloquial U.S.] Raider (in search of provisions), forager.Bump, n. 1. Thump, knock, blow.2. Swelling, protuberance.3. [Colloquial, in allusion to the doctrine of Phrenology that protuberances on the skull indicate faculties of the mind.] Faculty, power, endowment, gift.Bump, v. a. Knock, thump, strike, hit.Bumpkin, n. Rustic, peasant, clodpole, clown, boor, hind, lout, lubber, swain, ploughman, countryman.Bumptious, a. [Colloquial.] Conceited, vain, egotistical, self-opinionated, self-conceited.Bunch, n. 1. Protuberance, hunch, knob, lump.2. Cluster (as of grapes).3. Batch, assortment, lot, set, parcel, collection.4. Tuft, knot.Bundle, n. Package, pack, packet, parcel, budget, roll.Bundle, v. a. Tie in a bundle, put into bundles, bundle up.Bundle, v. n. 1. Depart hurriedly, set off in a hurry.2. Sleep together (without undressing).Bundle off, (Active.) Send off in a hurry.Bundle up, (Active.) Bundle, wrap up.Bungle, v. n. Do any thing clumsily.Bungler, n. Lubber, fumbler, clumsy workman, bad hand (at any thing), fresh-water sailor.Bungling, a. 1. Clumsy, awkward, unhandy, unskilful, maladroit, inapt.2. Ill-done.Bunk, n. [Colloquial U.S.] Berth, bed.Bunk, v. n. [Colloquial U.S.] Lie (in a bunk), sleep.Bunker, n. Bin, crib.Bunt, v. n. Butt, strike with the head or the horns.Buoy, n. Float (to indicate shoals, anchoring places, &c.).Buoy up, 1. Float, keep afloat, bear up, bear on the surface.2. Encourage, embolden, reassure.Buoyancy, n. 1. Lightness, levity, specific lightness.2. Vivacity, liveliness, sprightliness, cheerfulness, GAYETY.Buoyant, a. 1. Tending to float, light.2. Cheerful, hopeful,
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