English English Dictionary

Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.

Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness.

A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.

of Breste

A bristle.

To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.

To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment.

of Brustle

of Brustle

See Birt.

To browse.

See Edentata.

Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners.

Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.

Brutish quality; brutality.

of Brutality

An inhuman act.

The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.