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The mineral chondrodite.
Wet and dirty; begrimed.
The rhesus monkey. See Rhesus.
A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.
To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.
To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
To fight with the fists; to box.
An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.
of Bruise
One who, or that which, bruises.
A boxer; a pugilist.
A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
of Bruise
To report; to noise abroad.
An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.
Report; rumor; fame.
of Bruit
of Bruit
The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.