All English words - page 655

Meanings of Brethrenism:

noun

The religious beliefs and practices of the plymouth brethren or other similar groups.

Meanings of Breton:

noun

A native of brittany.

Usage examples:

It is said the collection of pirates included spaniards, french, bretons and irish.

adjective

Relating to brittany or its people or language.

Usage examples:

She is brought coral and pearls by a young lady whose dark skin distracts from her own breton compl…

Meanings of Breves:

noun

A note, rarely used in modern music, having the time value of two semibreves, and represented as a semibreve with two short bars either side, or as a square.

Usage examples:

The relationship between the semibreve and the minim is exactly the same as that accorded to the br…

Meanings of Breveted:

verb

Confer a brevet rank on.

Usage examples:

He was often breveted for gallantry, and became quartermaster general of the u.s. army.

noun

A former type of military commission conferred especially for outstanding service, by which an officer was promoted to a higher rank without the corresponding pay.

Usage examples:

A brevet lieutenant

Meanings of Brevetting:

verb

Confer a brevet rank on.

Usage examples:

He was often breveted for gallantry, and became quartermaster general of the u.s. army.

noun

A former type of military commission conferred especially for outstanding service, by which an officer was promoted to a higher rank without the corresponding pay.

Usage examples:

A brevet lieutenant

Meanings of Breviaries:

noun

A book containing the service for each day, to be recited by those in orders in the roman catholic church.

Usage examples:

The sarum breviary was reissued and ordered to be used throughout the province of canterbury.

Meanings of Brevity:

noun

Concise and exact use of words in writing or speech.

Usage examples:

The staff will edit manuscripts with a view to brevity and clarity

Meanings of Brewed:

verb

Make (beer) by soaking, boiling, and fermentation.

Usage examples:

Within five years the company will brew as much beer in china as in australia

noun

A kind of beer.

Usage examples:

Small breweries which are able to offer rare brews

Meanings of Brewer:

noun

A person or company that manufactures beer.

Usage examples:

Pubs owned by regional brewers

Meanings of Brewers:

noun

A person or company that manufactures beer.

Usage examples:

Pubs owned by regional brewers

Meanings of Brewery:

noun

A place where beer is made commercially.

Usage examples:

Work continued on the new lager brewery in alton

Meanings of Brewhouse:

noun

A brewery.

Usage examples:

A model of a combined brewhouse and bakehouse found in an egyptian tomb is to be seen in the museum.

Meanings of Brewmaster:

noun

A person who supervises the brewing process in a brewery.

Usage examples:

Actually, if the brewmaster sent that beer out of the brewery, he thought it was done.

Meanings of Brews:

verb

Make (beer) by soaking, boiling, and fermentation.

Usage examples:

Within five years the company will brew as much beer in china as in australia

noun

A kind of beer.

Usage examples:

Small breweries which are able to offer rare brews

Meanings of Briar:

noun

Any of a number of prickly scrambling shrubs, especially a wild rose.

Usage examples:

‘you're not stupid,’ bella continued, speaking more to the rose briars than to him.

Meanings of Briar-pipe:

noun

A wild bush, especially a rose or blackberry bush with long stems and sharp thorns

Usage examples:

His sleeve caught on a briar., they headed across country over rocks and through thorny briar., pri…

Meanings of Briard:

noun

A breed of large sheepdog with a long, wavy coat that partly obscures the eyes, originally bred in france; a dog of this breed. frequently attributive, as briard dog, briard puppy, etc.

Meanings of Briareus:

noun

An imaginary monster or person resembling briareus, specifically in having a hundred, or many, hands or arms. hence: a person capable of doing many things at once; a person of wide-ranging power or influence.

Meanings of Briars:

noun

Any of a number of prickly scrambling shrubs, especially a wild rose.

Usage examples:

‘you're not stupid,’ bella continued, speaking more to the rose briars than to him.

Meanings of Bribed:

verb

Dishonestly persuade (someone) to act in one's favour by a gift of money or other inducement.

Usage examples:

They attempted to bribe opponents into losing

noun

A sum of money or other inducement offered or given to bribe someone.

Usage examples:

Lawmakers were caught accepting bribes to bring in legalized gambling

Meanings of Bribeless:

adjective

Of a place, institution, process, etc.: free from bribes or bribery; not involving bribery. somewhat rare.

Meanings of Bribery:

noun

The giving or offering of a bribe.

Usage examples:

His opponent had been guilty of bribery and corruption

Meanings of Bribing:

verb

Dishonestly persuade (someone) to act in one's favour by a gift of money or other inducement.

Usage examples:

They attempted to bribe opponents into losing

noun

A sum of money or other inducement offered or given to bribe someone.

Usage examples:

Lawmakers were caught accepting bribes to bring in legalized gambling

Meanings of Bribri:

noun

A member of a central american people of the talamanca region of southern costa rica and northern panama. also with plural agreement and the: these people collectively.

adjective

Of, relating to, or belonging to the bribri or their language.

Meanings of Bric-a-brac:

noun

Small, decorative objects of various types and of no great value