BPage 385
- English Word Brazil wood Definition The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan; -- so called before the discovery of America.
- English Word Brazil wood Definition A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An inferior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named.
- English Word Braziletto Definition See Brazil wood.
- English Word Brazilian Definition Of or pertaining to Brazil.
- English Word Brazilian Definition A native or an inhabitant of Brazil.
- English Word Brazilin Definition A substance contained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies.
- English Word Brazing Definition of Braze
- English Word Breach Definition The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- English Word Breach Definition Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
- English Word Breach Definition A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.
- English Word Breach Definition A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
- English Word Breach Definition A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
- English Word Breach Definition A bruise; a wound.
- English Word Breach Definition A hernia; a rupture.
- English Word Breach Definition A breaking out upon; an assault.
- English Word Breach Definition To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
- English Word Breach Definition To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
- English Word Breached Definition of Breach
- English Word Breaching Definition of Breach
- English Word Breachy Definition Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.