2. Edge (as of a precipice), brink, border.
Browbeat, v. a. Bully, overbear, treat insolently.
Brown study, Reverie, musing, abstraction, preoccupation, absence, absence of mind.
Browse, n. Tender twigs of shrubs and trees.
Browse, v. a. Nibble, crop, feed upon.
Browse, v. n. 1. Feed on browse.
2. [Colloquial.] Live precariously.
Bruin, n. [Colloquial.] Bear.
Bruise, v. a. 1. Crush, squeeze, contuse.
2. Break, batter, pound, bray, pulverize, comminute, triturate, break to pieces.
Bruise, n. Contusion.
Bruit, n. Rumor, fame, report, hearsay, town-talk.
Bruit, v. a. Report, noise, blaze or spread abroad.
Brunt, n. Shock, heat of onset.
Brush, n. 1. Skirmish, engagement, rencounter, encounter, battle, contest, fight, conflict, collision, action, affair.
2. Thicket, bushes, shrubs, brushwood.
Brushwood, n. Underwood, shrubs, bushes, brush.
Brusque, a. [Fr.] Rude, rough, blunt, unceremonious, abrupt, bluff, gruff, ungentle, uncivil, ungracious, bearish, discourteous, uncourteous, impolite.
Brutal, a. 1. Savage, ferocious, cruel, inhuman, unfeeling, barbarous, barbarian, fell, barbaric, ruthless, truculent, bloody, brutish, brute.
2. Churlish, gruff, bearish, harsh, uncivil, rude, rough, impolite, unmannerly, brusque, ungentlemanly.
3. Gross, coarse, sensual, carnal, brutish, beastly, bestial.
Brutality, n. Savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty, brutishness, ferocity, truculence, hardness of heart.
Brute, n. 1. Beast (in a wild state), quadruped, four-footed animal, ferocious animal.
2. Ruffian, barbarian, brutal monster.
Brute, a. 1. Irrational, void of reason.
2. Bestial, savage, barbarous, brutal.
3. Rough, rude, uncivilized.
Brutish, a. 1. Brutal.
2. Irrational, brute.
3. Stupid, dull, insensible.
4. Gross, carnal, sensual, bestial, beastly.
Brutum fulmen, [L.] Harmless thunderbolt, loud but harmless threatening, empty sound.
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