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<A NAME="bransdicketheory">
<B>Brans-Dicke theory,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a theory that predicts a lesser degree of curvature for electromagnetic waves passing through a strong gravitational field than that predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity; scalar-tensor theory. </DL>
<A NAME="brant">
<B>brant</B> (1), noun, pl. <B>brants</B> or (collectively) <B>brant.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several small, dark wild geese, which breed in arctic regions and migrate south in the autumn. Also, <B>brand goose,</B> <B>brant goose,</B> <B>brent.</B> </DL>
<B>brantail, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) the redstart of Europe. </DL>
<A NAME="brantgoose">
<B>brant goose,</B> <B>=brant</B> (1).</DL>
<A NAME="brantub">
<B>bran-tub, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a tub full of bran with presents hidden in it to be drawn out at random, as at Christmas festivities. </DL>
<A NAME="brash">
<B>brash</B> (1), adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>showing lack of respect; impudent; saucy. <BR> <I>Ex. a very brash young man. Many are brash, but few are brave (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>hasty; rash. <BR> <I>Ex. a brash act.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an attack of illness. <DD><B> 2. </B>a rash or eruption. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=water brash.</B> <DD><B> 4. </B>a burst of rain and wind. adv. <B>brashly.</B> noun <B>brashness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="brash">
<B>brash</B> (2), noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a mass of loose, broken rock. <DD><B> 2. </B>fragments of crushed ice drifted together. <DD><B> 3. </B>clippings from hedging and pruning. <DD><B> 4. </B>(British Dialect.) broken or refuse boughs, twigs, etc. <DD><I>adj. </I> (U.S. and British Dialect.) easily broken; brittle. <BR> <I>Ex. brash timber.</I> </DL>
<B>brass, </B>noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a metal that is usually a yellowish color and an alloy of copper and zinc, in various proportions, commonly two parts of copper, or a little less, to one of zinc. It can be shaped or drawn. <DD><B> 2. </B>anything made of brass, such as an ornament or dish. <BR> <I>Ex. The man polished all the brasses.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Music.) Also, <B>brasses.</B> <DD><B> a. </B>musical instruments made of metal and played by blowing into a cup-shaped mouthpiece. The trumpet, trombone, and French horn are brasses. <DD><B> b. </B>the section of an orchestra or band made up of these instruments (distinguished from the strings, woodwinds, and percussion). <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) rude boldness; impudence. <BR> <I>Ex. He had the brass to go to the party uninvited.</I> (SYN) effrontery, shamelessness. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Slang, Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>military officers of high rank. <BR> <I>Ex. Top Pentagon brass are taking the aviation-gasoline restriction seriously (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the officers or executives of any business. <BR> <I>Ex. police brass, TV network brass.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a memorial plate of brass incised with an effigy, coat of arms, or inscription. <BR> <I>Ex. We took rubbings off the old brasses in the church aisles.</I> <DD><B> 7a. </B>hardness; imperishability. <DD><B> b. </B>insensibility. <DD><I>adj. </I> made of brass; brazen. <BR> <I>Ex. brass candlesticks.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to coat with brass by electroplating or otherwise. <BR><I>expr. <B>brasses,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>Music. brass (def. 3). <DD><B> b. </B>that part of a bearing which fits around the shaft, usually a brass cylinder cut in two or more sections with a lining of babbitt or white metal forming the rubbing surface. <BR>expr. <B>double in brass,</B> </I>(U.S. Slang.) to play two parts; do two jobs; double. <BR> <I>Ex. The men are television technicians doubling in brass as an optical expert, a photographer, and a machinist (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="brassage">
<B>brassage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mint charge levied to cover the expense of coining money. </DL>
<A NAME="brassard">
<B>brassard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a band worn above the elbow as a badge. <DD><B> 2. </B>armor for the upper part of the arm. </DL>
<B>brass band,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of musicians all or most of whom play upon metal (chiefly brass) wind instruments; military band. </DL>
<A NAME="brassbound">
<B>brassbound, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Informal.) <DD><B> a. </B>keeping strictly to rule; refusing to accept modification; inflexible. <BR> <I>Ex. brassbound fanatics; brassbound rigidity.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>impudent; brazen. <BR> <I>Ex. a brassbound liar.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>bound or fitted with brass. <BR> <I>Ex. a brassbound box.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="brasscollar">
<B>brass-collar, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) brassbound; inflexible. <BR> <I>Ex. His sharecropper father was a brass-collar Democrat out of the old South (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="brasserie">
<B>brasserie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a saloon or beer garden that also serves food. <DD><B> 2. </B>a brewery. </DL>
<A NAME="brasses">
<B>brasses, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>brass.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="brasshat">
<B>brass hat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a high-ranking military officer, especially a general or staff officer. <DD><B> 2. </B>a civilian official in a high position. </DL>
<A NAME="brassica">
<B>brassica, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a genus of herbs of the mustard family, including the cabbage, kale, broccoli, turnip, rape, and mustard. </DL>
<A NAME="brassicaceous">
<B>brassicaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>belonging to the mustard family, a family of plants including the cabbage, turnip, radish, and cress. <DD><B> 2. </B>cabbagelike. </DL>
<A NAME="brassie">
<B>brassie, </B>noun, pl. <B>brassies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a golf club with a wooden head, on the bottom of which there is a metal plate. It has a loft between that of a driver and a spoon and is used for long shots off the fairway. Also, <B>brassy.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="brassiere">
<B>brassiere, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a woman's undergarment worn to support the breasts. </DL>
<A NAME="brassin">
<B>brassin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plant hormone that stimulates the division, elongation, and lateral enlargement of plant cells. It was isolated from the pollen of the plant rape. </DL>
<A NAME="brassknuckles">
<B>brass knuckles,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a metal bar or linked rings that fit across the knuckles, used as a weapon. </DL>
<A NAME="brassplate">
<B>brass plate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a plate made of brass, indicating the occupant of a building. </DL>
<A NAME="brassring">
<B>brass ring,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a big prize; a chance for riches or success. <BR> <I>Ex. "Sure, George is ambitious," one of them says. "When he sees the brass ring coming round, he can't help grabbing for it" (Saturday Evening Post).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="brassrubbing">
<B>brass rubbing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the art or practice of taking a tracing of effigies or inscriptions on brass objects by rubbing colored wax on paper pressed over the brass plate. <DD><B> 2. </B>an impression made this way. </DL>
<A NAME="brasstacks">
<B>brass tacks,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) the actual facts or details. <BR><I>expr. <B>get</B> (or <B>come</B>) <B>down to brass tacks,</B> </I>to get down to fundamentals. <BR> <I>Ex. After the exchange of a few pleasantries we immediately got down to brass tacks (Life).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="brassware">
<B>brassware, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> things made of brass. </DL>
<A NAME="brasswind">
<B>brass-wind, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the brasses or brass winds. </DL>
<A NAME="brasswinds">
<B>brass winds,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> metal musical instrumentsthat are played by blowing into a cup-shaped mouthpiece, such as trumpets or trombones. See <B>brass</B> (n. def. 3a). </DL>
<A NAME="brassy">
<B>brassy, </B>adjective, <B>brassier,</B> <B>brassiest,</B> noun, pl. <B>brassies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or covered with brass. <DD><B> 2. </B>like brass. <BR> <I>Ex. a brassy green sky.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) loud and harsh. <BR> <I>Ex. a brassy voice. The music was somewhat brassy, overpercussive, and generally monotonous (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) shameless; impudent; brazen. <BR> <I>Ex. a brassy manner.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>=brassie.</B> adv. <B>brassily.</B> noun <B>brassiness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="brat">
<B>brat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>an unpleasant child. <DD><B> b. </B>a child. <DD><B> 2. </B>(British.) a check cloth used as an apron or other overgarment, especially of a coarse or makeshift character. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Scottish.) the tough film or skin which forms on porridge, rice pudding, etc. </DL>
<B>brattice, </B>noun, verb, <B>-ticed,</B> <B>-ticing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a partition for ventilation in a mine, usually made of cloth impregnated with creosote, nailed to props erected as needed. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) a temporary breastwork, parapet, or gallery of wood erected on the battlement of a fortress, for use during a siege. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to line the sides of (a shaft, or the like) with planking or boarding. <DD><B> 2. </B>to provide with a brattice. </DL>
<A NAME="bratticing">
<B>bratticing, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a piece of ornamental openwork, as over a shrine. <DD><B> 2. </B>a brattice or brattices in a mine. </DL>
<A NAME="brattish">
<B>brattish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a brat; bratty; impudent. adv. <B>brattishly.</B> noun <B>brattishness.</B> </DL>
