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brier, n. thorn, bramble.
brigand, n. highwayman, bandit, outlaw, robber, footpad, freebooter.
bright, a. luminous, gleaming, l.u.s.trous, radiant, resplendent, glistening, beaming, s.h.i.+mmering, phosph.o.r.escent, luciferous, luminiferous, argent, orient, dazzling, glowing, glittering, flas.h.i.+ng, scintillating, sparkling, refulgent, effulgent, brilliant, vivid, glossy, fulgent, naif, lucent, glaring, garish, crystalline; intelligent, precocious, apt, acute, discerning, clever, smart, knowing; auspicious, propitious; ill.u.s.trious, glorious. Antonyms: dull, lackl.u.s.ter, obscure, dim, opaque, murky, nebulous, dingy, tarnished, sullied.
brighten, v. polish, burnish, furbish; illuminate, irradiate, cheer, rally, enliven, inspirit.
brightness, n. brilliancy, splendor, l.u.s.ter, luminosity, resplendence, radiance, refulgence, effulgence, glow; aptness, precocity, acuteness, sharpness, discernment; vivacity, animation, liveliness.
brilliancy, n. brightness, resplendence, refulgence, brilliance.
brilliant, a. sparkling, glittering, scintillating, dazzling, gleaming, glistening, flas.h.i.+ng; splendid, glorious, signal, eminent, striking.
brim, n. rim, border, margin, edge, brink, bank, marge.
brimstone, n. sulphur.
bring, v. fetch.
bring about. bring to pa.s.s, effect, accomplish, effectuate, achieve.
bring back. return, restore, replace; revive, resuscitate.
bring forward. introduce.
bring to. resuscitate, revive, reanimate.
bringing to. resuscitation, revivification.
bring on. incur.
bring to pa.s.s. accomplish, effectuate.
bring up. nurse, rear, nurture, train.
brink, n. edge, border, verge.
brisk, a. lively, spirited, sprightly, spry, agile, rapid.
British soldier. Tommy Atkins.
brittle, a. frangible, crisp, friable.
brittleness, n. frangibility. Antonym: tenacity.
broad, a. wide; extensive, extended, vast, wide-reaching, comprehensive; liberal, tolerant, catholic; indelicate, gross, questionable.
broadside, n. placard, poster.
broil, v. grill.
broiler, n. gridiron.
broiling, a. scorching, torrid, grilling.
broken, a. fractured, splintered, shattered, s.h.i.+vered; disconnected, discontinuous, interrupted; impaired, shattered; subdued, humbled, contrite, penitent, crushed, trained, subjugated, tractable; violated.
Antonyms: inviolate, intact, whole.
broken-hearted, a. disconsolate, inconsolable, comfortless.
broker, a. agent, factor, middleman, go-between.
brood, v. incubate, sit; meditate (morbidly).
brook, n. rivulet, runlet, rill, creek, streamlet, runnel, run, burn.
brook, v. tolerate, suffer, endure, bear.
broom, n. besom; whisk (small broom).
brothel, n. house of prost.i.tution, bawdy-house, brothelry.
brother, n. a.s.sociated Words: fratricidal, fraternize, fratricide, brotherhood, brother german, brother uterine.
brotherhood, n. fraternity, fellows.h.i.+p.
brotherly, a. fraternal.
brow, n. forehead.
brown, a. dusky, tawny, dun, swarthy.
brown race. Malayan.
brown study. abstraction, revery, musing, preoccupation.
bruise, v. contuse, ecchymose.
bruise, v. indent, deface, disfigure.
bruise, n. contusion, ecchymosis.
bruiser, n. (Colloq.) boxer, pugilist.
bruit, n. report, town talk, rumor, hearsay.--v. noise, abroad, report, tell, circulate.
brush, n. brushwood; thicket, underbrush; grazing.
