English English Dictionary
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Brittle.
Brittleness.
Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.
A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.
One who frequents brothels.
Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel.
A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.
One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.
To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.
A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.
The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.
of Brother
The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
The state of being brothers or a brother.
The state or quality of being brotherly.
Like a brother; affectionately; kindly.
Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.