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Bob(n.) A blow
(v. i.) To angle with a bob.
Bobber(n.) One who, or that which, bobs.
Bobbin(n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current
Bobby(n.) A nickname for a policeman
Bobolink(n.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white
Bobsleigh(n.) A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling
Bobstay(n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater
Bobtail(a.) Bobtailed.
(n.) An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.
Bobwhite(n.) The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus)
Bode(imp. & p. p.) Abode.
(n.) A bid
(p. p.) Bid or bidden.
(v. i.) To foreshow something
(v. t.) A messenger
Bodice(n.) A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it
Bodiless(a.) Having no body.
Bodily(a.) Having a body or material form
(adv.) Corporeally
Bodkin(n.) A dagger.
Body(n.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness
(v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, a body
Boer(n.) A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.
Bog(n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
(v. t.) To sink, as into a bog
Bogey(n.) A given score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete
Boggle(n.) To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
(v. t.) To embarrass with difficulties
Boggy(a.) Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs
Bogie(n.) A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track
Bogue(n.) The boce
(v. i.) To fall off from the wind
Bogus(a.) Spurious
(n.) A liquor made of rum and molasses.
Bohea(n.) Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea.
Bohemia(n.) A country of central Europe.
Boil(n.) Act or state of boiling.
(v.) To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point
(v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation
Boisterous(a.) Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury
Bold(n.) Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger
(v. i.) To be or become bold.
(v. t.) To make bold or daring.
Bole(n.) A bolus
Bolide(n.) A kind of bright meteor
Boll(n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels
(v. i.) To form a boll or seed vessel
Bolo(n.) A kind of large knife resembling a machete.
Bolster(n.) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation
(v. t.) To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort
Bolt(adv.) In the manner of a bolt
(n.) A bundle, as of oziers.
(v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected
(v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth
Bolus(n.) A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
Bomb(n.) A bomb ketch.
(v. i.) To sound
(v. t.) To bombard.
Bonanza(n.) In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold
Bonapartism(n.) The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.
Bonbon(n.) Sugar confectionery
Bond(a.) In a state of servitude or slavery
(n.) A binding force or influence
(v. t.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.
Boneset(n.) A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic
Bonfire(n.) A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement
Bongo(n.) Either of two large antelopes (Boocercus eurycercus of West Africa, and B. isaaci of East Africa) of a reddish or chestnut-brown color with narrow white stripes on the body
Bonito(n.) A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides
Bonnet(n.) A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead
(v. i.) To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect
Bonny(a.) Gay
(n.) A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not communicating with a vein.
Bonspiel(n.) A cur/ing match between clubs.
Bontebok(n.) The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni
Bonus(n.) An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.
Bon vivant(p. pr.) A good fellow
Bony(a.) Consisting of bone, or of bones
Bonze(n.) A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.
Booby(a.) Having the characteristics of a booby
(n.) A dunce
Boodle(n.) Money given in payment for votes or political influence
Boohoo(n.) The sailfish
Book(n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together
(v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
Boom(n.) A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon
(v. i.) To cry with a hollow note
(v. t.) To cause to advance rapidly in price
Boon(n.) A prayer or petition.
Boor(n.) A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant
Boost(n.) A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb
(v. i.) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb)
Boot(n.) A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
(v. i.) To boot one's self
(v. t.) To enrich
Booze(n.) A carouse
(v. i.) To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor
Boozy(a.) A little intoxicated
Boracic(a.) Pertaining to, or produced from, borax
Borage(n.) A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic
Borate(n.) A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.
Borax(n.) A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap
Bordello(n.) A brothel
Border(n.) A boundary
(v. i.) To approach
(v. t.) To be, or to have, contiguous to
Bordure(n.) A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged
Bore(imp.) of Bear
(n.) A hole made by boring
(v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns
(v. t.) To befool
Boric(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.
Boring(n.) A hole made by boring.
Born(p. p.) of Bear
(v. t.) Brought forth, as an animal
Boron(n.) A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms
Borosilicate(n.) A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc
Borough(n.) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other
Borrow(n.) Something deposited as security
(v. t.) To copy or imitate
Boscage(n.) A growth of trees or shrubs
Bosh(n.) Empty talk
Bosk(n.) A thicket
Bosom(a.) Intimate
(n.) A depression round the eye of a millstone.
(v. t.) To conceal
Boss(n.) A head or reservoir of water.
(v. t.) To ornament with bosses
Boston(n.) A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each
Botanical(a.) Of or pertaining to botany
Botanist(n.) One skilled in botany
Botanize(v. i.) To seek after plants for botanical investigation
(v. t.) To explore for botanical purposes.
Botany(a. & n.) A book which treats of the science of botany.
Botch(n.) A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
Botfly(n.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs
Both(a. or pron.) The one and the other
(conj.) As well
Botryoidal(a.) Having the form of a bunch of grapes
Bots(n. pl.) The larvae of several species of botfly, especially those larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments
Bottle(n.) A bundle, esp. of hay.
(v. t.) To put into bottles
Bottom(a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom
(n.) A ball or skein of thread
(v. i.) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder
(v. t.) To found or build upon
Boudoir(n.) A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends
Bouffe(n.) Comic opera.
Bough(n.) A gallows.
Bougie(n.) A long, flexible instrument, that is
Bouillon(n.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.
Boul(n.) A curved handle.
Bounce(adv.) With a sudden leap
(n.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
(v. i.) To boast
(v. t.) To bully
Bouncing(a.) Excessive
Bound(imp.) of Bind
(n.) A leap
(p. p.) of Bind
(p. p. & a.) Constipated
(v.) Ready or intending to go
(v. i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps
(v. t.) To cause to rebound
Bounteous(a.) Liberal in charity
Bountiful(a.) Free in giving
Bounty(n.) A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service
Bouquet(n.) A nosegay
Bourbon(n.) A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France
Bourdon(n.) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy.
Bourgeois(a.) Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.
(n.) A man of middle rank in society
Bourse(n.) An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours
Bouse(n.) Drink, esp. alcoholic drink
(v. i.) To drink immoderately
Boustrophedon(n.) An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite
Bout(n.) A conflict
Bovid(a.) Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.
Bovine(a.) Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows
Bow(n.) An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission
(sing. or pl.) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
(v. i.) To bend
(v. i. ) To manage the bow.
(v. i.) To play (music) with a bow.
(v. t.) An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument
Bowdlerize(v. t.) To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive.
Bowel(n.) Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything
(v. t.) To take out the bowels of
Bower(n.) Anciently, a chamber
(v. & n.) A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
(v. i.) To lodge.
(v. t.) To embower
Bowfin(n.) A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States
Bowhead(n.) The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus).
Bowing(n.) In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting
Bowknot(n.) A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied
Bowl(n.) A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play
(v. i.) To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball
(v. t.) To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
Bowman(n.) A man who uses a bow
Bowshot(n.) The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.
Bowsprit(n.) A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward
Bowstring(n.) A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders.
(v. t.) To strangle with a bowstring.
Bowyer(n.) An archer
Boxer(n.) A member of a powerful Chinese organization which committed numerous outrages on Europeans and Christian converts in the uprising against foreigners in 1900
Boxfish(n.) The trunkfish.
Boxhaul(v. t.) To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel
Boxing(n.) Any boxlike inclosure or recess
Boxthorn(n.) A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.
Boxwood(n.) The wood of the box (Buxus).
Boy(n.) A male child, from birth to the age of puberty
(v. t.) To act as a boy
Boycott(n.) The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting
(v. t.) To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations
Boyhood(n.) The state of being a boy
Boyish(a.) Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions
Brabble(n.) A broil
(v. i.) To clamor
Brace(n.) A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum
(v. i.) To get tone or vigor
(v. t.) To bind or tie closely
Brachial(a.) Of the nature of an arm
Brachiate(a.) Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac
Brachiopod(n.) One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.
Brachium(n.) The upper arm
Brachylogy(n.) Conciseness of expression
Brachypterous(a.) Having short wings.
Bracing(a.) Imparting strength or tone
(n.) Any system of braces
Bracken(n.) A brake or fern.
Bracket(n.) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece
(v. t.) To place within brackets
Brackish(a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.
Bract(n.) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises
Brad(n.) A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head
Brae(n.) A hillside
Brag(adv.) Proudly
(n.) A boast or boasting
(v. i.) Brisk
(v. t.) To boast of.
Brahma(n.) A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered
Brahmin(n.) A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos.
Braid(n.) A fancy
(v. i.) To start
(v. t.) Deceitful.
Braille(n.) A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters are represented by tangible points or dots
Brain(n.) The affections
(v. t.) To conceive
Braise(v. t.) To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan.
Brake(n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches
(v. t.) A baker's kneading though.
Bramble(n.) Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub
Brambling(n.) The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla)
Brambly(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles.
Bran(n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting
Brash(a.) Brittle, as wood or vegetables.
(n.) A rash or eruption
Brass(n.) A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc
Brat(n.) A child
Bravado(n.) Boastful and threatening behavior
Brave(n.) A brave person
(superl.) Bold
(v. t.) To adorn
Bravo(a.) A daring villain
(interj.) Well done! excellent! an exclamation expressive of applause.
Bravura(n.) A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force and skill of a performer
Braw(a.) Good
Bray(n.) A bank
(v. i.) To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
(v. t.) To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
Braze(v. i.) To harden.
(v. t.) To cover or ornament with brass.
Brazier(n.) An artificer who works in brass.
Breach(n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel
(v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out
(v. t.) To make a breach or opening in
Bread(a.) To spread.
(n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
(v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking
Break(v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties
(v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction.
Bream(n.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known
(v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping
Breast(n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom
(v. t.) To meet, with the breast
Breath(n.) A single respiration, or the time of making it
Breccia(n.) A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc
Brede(n.) A braid.
Breech(n.) Breeches.
(v. t.) To cover as with breeches.
Breed(n.) A number produced at once
(v. i.) To bear and nourish young
(v. t.) To educate
Breeze(n.) A light, gentle wind
(v. i.) To blow gently.
Breezy(a.) Characterized by, or having, breezes
Bregma(n.) The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.
Brethren(n.) pl. of Brother.
Breton(a.) Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France
Breve(n.) A curved mark
Breviary(n.) A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline
Brevity(n.) Contraction into few words
Brew(n.) The mixture formed by brewing
(v. i.) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
(v. t.) To boil or seethe
Briar(n.) A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles
Bribe(n.) A gift begged
(v. i.) To commit robbery or theft.
(v. t.) To gain by a bribe
Brick(n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp
(v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them
Bricole(n.) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used
Bridal(n.) A nuptial festival or ceremony
Bride(n.) A woman newly married, or about to be married.
(v. t.) To make a bride of.
Bridge(n.) A card game resembling whist.
(v. t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over
Bridle(n.) A mooring hawser.
(v. i.) To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment
(v. t.) To put a bridle upon
Brief(a.) An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law
(adv.) Briefly.
(n.) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose
(v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of
Brig(n.) A bridge.
Brill(n.) A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food
Brim(a.) Fierce
(n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it
(v. i.) To be full to the brim.
(v. t.) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
Brindle(a.) Brindled.
(n.) A brindled color
Brine(n.) Tears
(v. t.) To sprinkle with salt or brine
Bring(v. t.) To cause the accession or obtaining of
Brink(n.) The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice
Briny(a.) Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea
Brioche(n.) A knitted foot cushion.
Briolette(n.) An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets.
Briquette(n.) A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving
Brisk(a.) Full of liveliness and activity
(v. t. & i.) To make or become lively
Bristle(n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
(v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles
(v. t.) To erect the bristles of
Bristly(a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles
Britannia(n.) A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware
Britannic(a.) Of or pertaining to Great Britain
Briticism(n.) A word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Great Britain
British(a.) Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants
(n. pl.) People of Great Britain.
Briton(a.) British.
(n.) A native of Great Britain.
Brittle(a.) Easily broken
Broach(n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting.
Broadbill(n.) A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn
Broadcast(a.) Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing
(adv.) So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions
(n.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
Broadcloth(n.) A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half)
Broaden(a.) To grow broad
(v. t.) To make broad or broader
Broadleaf(n.) A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc
Broadly(adv.) In a broad manner.
Broadside(n.) A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.
Broadsword(n.) A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge
Brobdingnagian(a.) Colossal
(n.) A giant.
Brocade(n.) Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc
Brocatel(n.) A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc
Broccoli(n.) A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower
Brochette(n.) A small spit or skewer.
Brochure(v. t.) A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves
Brogan(n.) A stout, coarse shoe
Brogue(n.) A stout, coarse shoe
(v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation
Broider(v. t.) To embroider.
Broil(n.) A tumult
(v. i.) To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire
(v. t.) To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.
broke(imp.) of Break
(v. i.) To act as procurer in love matters
Bromate(n.) A salt of bromic acid.
(v. t.) To combine or impregnate with bromine
Bromic(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine
Bromide(n.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
Bromine(n.) One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79
Bromism(n.) A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness
Bronchial(a.) Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs.
Bronchiole(n.) A minute bronchial tube.
Bronchitis(n.) Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.
Broncho(n.) A native or a Mexican horse of small size.
Bronchus(n.) One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe
Brontosaurus(n.) A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles
Bronze(a.) An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added
(n.) To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means
Bronzite(n.) A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family
Brooch(imp. & p. p.) To adorn as with a brooch.
(n.) An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment
Brood(a.) Kept for breeding from
(v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject
(v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Brook(v. t.) A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
Broom(n.) An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle
Broth(n.) Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled
Brougham(n.) A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short
Brought(imp. & p. p.) of Bring
Brow(n.) The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place
(v. t.) To bound to limit
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